Word: bizarro
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Generals are asking for changes in a TV show, and war critics are on their side: How's that for a Kumbayah moment? But then, media crusading is a political bizarro world, uniting social-issue conservatives with social-engineer progressives. And the year before a presidential election, "protecting the children" has bipartisan appeal (2004 gave us Janet; 2000, Eminem; 1996, Ice-T). Both parties' 2008 fields include candidates who have advocated government steps against TV, music and video games, including Senators McCain, Hillary Clinton and Sam Brownback...
...spelled trouble for the Roth family of Newark, N.J. The fictional President Lindbergh is an anti-Semite who appeases Hitler and casts the country into a dark, angry nightmare of riots and forced relocations, and the pressure divides Roth's family as well as the nation. This bizarro counterhistory isn't an allegory, and it makes no easy political points. It's cold, clear and frighteningly plausible...
...while the governor may be your average hyper-driven American with 22-inch biceps and a ridiculous accent, the rest of Sacramento is firmly rooted in the Bizarro World. The Hollywood-ready wackiness does not come from the Mr. Universe-turned-governor. Instead, it is provided by the legislature, the bureaucrats, and the generally bizarre attitude of California’s two-hours-from-anywhere (including the ocean) center of government...
Elaine replacing her friends with “Bizarro Jerry,” “Bizarro Kramer,” and “Bizarro George” on Seinfeld, shows the hilarity that ensues when classic figures are seen just slightly askew. As in that episode, DC’s Bizarro World, is a compilation featuring familiar characters including Batman, Superman, and Green Lantern interpreted slightly differently from their archetypal form, by a series of independent and, often, unknown creative teams...
With thirty-five stories to choose from, there is something for everyone in Bizarro World, from someone who gets all the references in the Justice League story “Take Your Kids to Work Day” to the subversive romantic sympathizing with the dating travails of Deadman, a ghost that can briefly possess the living to the media satire of “The Red Bee Returns,” an attempt by a long-dormant hero to receive mainstream attention. No matter what your graphic novel baggage, the trip to Bizarro World is worth the ride...