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...Today, Adrian Ow Yung Hwei is slated to register as a first-year with the rest of the Class...
...story of Adrian Monk--the protagonist of the hit detective show on the USA cable network--is not unlike the story of Monk the series. Monk, played by Tony Shalhoub, is a brilliant detective with a few quirks: after his wife was murdered, he developed obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Now he's germ phobic and afraid of heights--and milk. He can ID a criminal with little more than a sniff of the curtains at a murder scene, but put him near a couch with a crooked pillow, and he can't function until he straightens it. Because...
...character with just about everything a person like him can have." In a strange way, Monk's exaggerated condition makes his crime-solving genius more plausible. (More so than Monk's secondary characters, who too often have a cardboard, murder-mystery-dinner-theater feel.) It makes us see that Adrian Monk's talent--and that of the many fictional sleuths who preceded him--is just a healthier manifestation of his malady: he needs to impose order on a world that inexorably tends toward entropy. Is that crazy? Not as crazy as having let this show get away to another network...
...Hillary Chan prank calls an old man in Adrian Tomine's "Summer Blonde...
...would be too bad if the ambiguity and sadness of "Summer Blonde" scared you off. Adrian Tomine won't entertain you with a lot of snappy tricks. He's on to something that other comix artists haven't captured - a slacker generation growing older but not wiser...