These longer strips include The Bash Street Kids Adventures written and drawn by Kev F Sutherland which since 2004 have featured parodies of famous comic strip images, including Amazing Fantasy's first Spider-Man cover, Action Comics ' first Superman cover, and most recently the cover of X Men # 100.

The 2004 limited series Superman: Birthright has a young Clark Kent study the Meisner technique to move seamlessly between his Clark and Superman personas ( dropping his head, lowering his shoulders, and talking in a lighter tone as Clark Kent, while standing straight and talking in a deeper tone as Superman ).

The 2004 series Superman: Birthright also explained that Superman's eyes are an inhumanly vivid shade of blue, which Clark's glasses diffuse to make his eyes appear more human.

Superman: Birthright, a limited series written by Mark Waid in 2004, offers an alternate look at Luthor's history, including his youth in Smallville, and his first encounter with Superman.

In the 2004 mini-series Superman: Birthright, a new retelling of Superman's origin and early years, Mark Waid depicted a Krypton, officially stated as being located in the Andromeda Galaxy 2. 5 million light-years away, with elements of various versions of the planet, but closer to the pre-Crisis version.

McQuickly and Nasty had cameos in the 2004 graphic novel, Superman: True Brit, co-written by John Cleese.

He has a cameo appearance in several films: Around the World in 80 Days ( 2004 ), where he played a hot-air balloon operator ; Superman Returns, where he was credited as a ' Shuttle Engineer ' and appeared alongside his son, Sam, with a Virgin Galactic-style commercial suborbital shuttle at the centre of his storyline.

Following the cancellation of the third Supergirl comic book series, starring the Linda Danvers version of the character, a modern version of Kara Zor-El was reintroduced into the DC Comics continuity in issue # 8 of the Superman / Batman comic book series titled " The Supergirl from Krypton " ( 2004 ).

Issue # 8 of the Superman / Batman series originally published in 2004 re-introduced Kara Zor-El into the DC continuity.

Superman / Batman: Apocalypse, a direct-to-video animated film released in September 2010, largely parallels the origin-story arc launched in the Superman / Batman comic series in 2004, with some minor plot differences.

* Christopher Reeve ( 1952 – 2004 ), of Superman fame, kept a sailboat, the sloop-rigged Chandelle, at a Fairhaven shipyard and sometimes flew into New Bedford Regional Airport to pick it up or to stay in town during a stopover en route to Martha's Vineyard.

* Superman Adventures ( released in 2004 by Platinum Disc Corporation ).

In the 2004 graphic novel, Trinity mini-series, by Matt Wagner, Bizarro is a genetic clone of Superman that is the result of Luthorcorp's " Project Replica ".

Several alternate universe versions of the character exist: the Silver Age Bizarro appears in Justice as a member of the Legion of Doom ; one-shot The Superman Monster ( 1999 ), essentially a Frankenstein pastiche features a monstrous copy of Bizarro created by a Viktor Luthor ; one-shot Superman: Red Son ( 2004 ) features a " Superman 2 " created by genius Lex Luthor for the United States to stop the Soviet-based Superman ; and Lex Luthor creates Bizarro-like duplicates called " Liberators " in the limited series JLA: The Nail ( 1998 ).

The term remake applies to films which use a previous film as its main source material, often reusing the same storyline while updating times and places to match contemporary settings, such as 1998's A Perfect Murder or 2001's Ocean's Eleven, whereas the term reboot is ascribed to film series such as Police Story ( rebooted in the 2004 film New Police Story ), Batman ( 2005's Batman Begins ), James Bond ( 2006's Casino Royale ), Star Trek ( the 2009 Star Trek film-though still in the existing Star Trek canon, but in an alternate universe ), Spider-Man ( 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man ), and Superman ( 2013's Man of Steel ).

* A western example, the 2004 expansion to the trading card game Magic: The Gathering entitled Champions of Kamigawa features kami and Shinto as the basis for the ongoing storyline of the series.

The storyline culminated when Haas served as the Referee in a match at Armageddon 2004 between the two women.

Also in 2004, Bendis oversaw the closing issues of The Avengers as part of the crossover storyline " Avengers Disassembled ".

A revisitation of the event during Erica's 2004 alcohol intervention storyline introduced the fact that Eric had actually offered up Erica for sex with Richard to convince the actor to star in one of Eric's films.

She returned to the screen with a pivotal role in a 2004 storyline revolving around her grandson's marriage to naïve teenager Alison Stewart ( Jessica Dunphy ).

: From 2004 to 2005, they featured a crossover storyline told on both shows.

Mattson has returned to General Hospital on two occasions, first in 2004 for six months where she was reunited with her former Santa Barbara co-star Jed Allan in a storyline where Heather tried to murder the aging Edward Quartermaine after marrying him for his money

The Glorious Burden was released in January, 2004, after which Jon started work on two concept albums based on his Something Wicked storyline.

McKeon portrayed Inspector Jinny Exstead on the Lifetime police drama The Division from 2001 to 2004, with her pregnancy incorporated into the storyline of the last year of the series.

A sequel to Nanosaur was introduced in March 2004 entitled Nanosaur 2: Hatchling, a continuation of the original Nanosaur storyline.

In 2004 and 2005, Minshew portrayed Kendall in brief appearances on the daytime drama One Life to Live as part of the infamous baby-swap storyline.

In June 2004, a storyline to bring Rivera back was ran, in which the CEO, Thomas Wreckler, brought him in to stop La Familia and La Compañia.

The entire Locas storyline to date was collected into one 700 page graphic novel in 2004.

The third Prometheus, Chad Graham, debuted in Batman: Gotham Knights # 52 ( June 2004 ), being part of the " Pushback " storyline from issues # 50-55 ( April-Sept. 2004 ).

Predator film was not released until 2004 and was based on a very different story, and so the arcade game was released in 1994 as a stand-alone storyline to the series.

In July 2004, they began appearing as the fictional character " Ace Buchanan " on not only one, but two soap operas ; All My Children and One Life to Live, as baby " Ace " was part of a storyline " so big it had to be told on two soaps ".

Young Avengers follows the events of the 2004 – 2005 " Avengers Disassembled " storyline.

" Speaking to BBC Radio 1 in 2004, Beadle stated that the storyline had a negative effect on his private life, with public shouting at him in the street things such as ' Drug dealer ' or ' Sell me some drugs '.

Stephanie remained an integral part of Robins supporting cast for over a decade, until her editorially-dictated death in the 2004 crossover storyline Batman: War Games.

Later, in a storyline in Outsiders # 12 – 15 ( July – October 2004 ), frequent Captain Marvel archenemy Dr. Sivana freed Jinx, Mammoth and Gizmo from Alcatraz.

In a storyline in Outsiders # 12 – 15 ( July – October 2004 ), frequent Captain Marvel archenemy Dr. Sivana gathered Gizmo and the others, and put the team to work for him in a scheme to short sell Lexcorp stock by having them steal its accounts from its corporate building in Metropolis, and then driving down the stock by killing all the people in the building, and destroying two other Lexcorp properties.

For example, an array of 10 integer variables, with indices 0 through 9, may be stored as 10 words at memory addresses 2000, 2004, 2008, … 2036, so that the element with index i has the address 2000 + 4 × i.

For the 2004 semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in Istanbul thirty years after ABBA had won the contest in Brighton, Benny appeared briefly in a special comedy video made for the interval act, entitled " Our Last Video ".

Charles has appeared on celebrity editions of University Challenge ( 1998 ), Can't Cook, Won't Cook ( 1998 ) and The Weakest Link ( 2004 ), and comedy panel shows such as Have I Got News For You ( 1995 ), Just a Minute ( 1995 ) and They Think It's All Over ( 1996 ).

For example, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, coyotes were responsible for 60. 5 % of the 224, 000 sheep deaths attributed to predation in 2004.

For the 2004 video game The Bard's Tale, he served as scriptwriter, improviser, and voice actor of the main character The Bard.

For certain genetic strains of cholera, such as the one present during the 2010 epidemic in Haiti and the 2004 outbreak in India, death can occur within two hours of becoming ill.

For instance, in the 55 Cancri system the first planet – 55 Cancri b – was discovered in 1996 ; two additional farther planets were simultaneously discovered in 2002 with the nearest to the star being named 55 Cancri c and the other 55 Cancri d ; a fourth planet was claimed ( its existence was later disputed ) in 2004 and named 55 Cancri e despite lying closer to the star than 55 Cancri b ; and the most recently discovered planet, in 2007, was named 55 Cancri f despite lying between 55 Cancri c and 55 Cancri d. As of April 2012 the highest letter in use is " j ", for the unconfirmed planet HD 10180 j ( HD 10180 h is the confirmed planet with the highest letter ).

In the 2004 European Parliament election the EFA was reduced to four MEPs two of the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one of PC ( Jill Evans ) and one of the Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ; Bernat Joan i Mari, replaced at the mid-term by MEP Mikel Irujo of Basque EA ) plus two affiliate members ( Tatjana Ždanoka of For Human Rights in United Latvia ( PCTVL ) and László Tőkés, independent MEP and former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania ( UMDR ).

For live shows in 2002 and 2004, Lee and his keyboard technician used the playback capabilities of the XV-5080 to generate virtually all of Rush's keyboard sounds to date, as well as additional complex sound passages that previously required several machines at once to produce.

For most of Serie A's history there were 16 or 18 clubs competing at the top level ; however, since 2004 – 05 there have been 20 clubs altogether.

Mexico and Japan on 17 September 2004, signed the " Agreement Between Japan and The United Mexican States For The Strengthening of The Economic Partnership.

For example, the June 2004 election campaign of the Liberal Party of Canada was compared with " the Keystone Kops running around " by one of its parliamentary members, Carolyn Parrish.

For example, Christmas Day fell on Saturday in 2004, Sunday in 2005, Monday in 2006 and Tuesday in 2007 but then " leapt " over Wednesday to fall on a Thursday in 2008.

For 37 years beginning in 1967, Albert was the voice of the New York Knicks on radio and television ( getting his start by being a ball boy for the Knicks before getting his first break on New York radio by sportscaster Marty Glickman ) before being let go by the chairman of the MSG Network and Cablevision after Albert criticized the Knicks ' poor play on-air in 2004.

) For example, the industry-wide fees payable in 2004 to ASCAP was $ 176 million.

For example, Spider-Man's high school graduation was published in Amazing Spider-Man # 28 ( September 1965 ), his college graduation in Amazing Spider-Man # 185 ( October 1978 ), and his high school reunion in Marvel Knights: Spider-Man # 7 ( December 2004 ).

For his part, Scotty had resigned as parliamentary speaker in April 2004 in protest of the Nauru's financial crisis which included the commencement of receivership proceedings by corporate giant, General Electric.

No music videos were released from Come on Pilgrim or Surfer Rosa, but from Doolittle onwards, the following videos were made: " Monkey Gone To Heaven ", " Here Comes Your Man ", " Velouria ", " Dig For Fire ", " Allison ", " Alec Eiffel ", " Head On ", and " Debaser "; these were later released on the 2004 DVD Pixies.

For this work they were awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics.

For the Astros, Clemens was the losing pitcher in game 7 of the 2004 NLCS against the St. Louis Cardinals, allowing 4 runs in 6 innings of work although he pitched well, he tired in the sixth inning surrendering all four runs.

For an introduction to the economic analysis of property law, see Shavell ( 2004 ), and Cooter and Ulen ( 2003 ).

American examples are Saigon Station ( 2003 ) by Charles Gillen, The Dream Merchant of Lisbon ( 2004 ) and No Game For Amateurs ( 2009 ) by Gene Coyle, Edge of Allegiance ( 2005 ) by Thomas F. Murphy, A Train to Potevka ( 2005 ) by Mike Ramsdell, Voices Under Berlin ( 2008 ), by T. H. E.

TMBG also contributed a track to the 2004 Future Soundtrack For America compilation, a project compiled by John Flansburgh with the help of Spike Jonze and Barsuk Records.

For example, some quotes from 2004 winners include:

For example, by the end of September, the financial positions of Republican contenders in the cycle were worse than those of Democrats at the same point in the 2004 campaign.