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...each of the last 30 years, it offers a fascinating slice of his evolving interest in the constructs of "cartoons." Of the work by relative newcomers, "My Sexual History (Slightly Abridged Version)," by David Heatley (who also appears in "McSweeny's" #13), stands out as another in the brutal honesty school of autobio comix. Rendered as 672 tiny panels across fifteen pages, the title delivers on its promise of full exposure, tracing the author's sexual maturation with explicit candor. Like it or not you can't turn away...
...while: better than their best. It's at the bitter end of the affair that men, and women, tend to be at their worst, getting pathetic, shrill, vindictive. Especially if one of the pair feels wronged and righteous. No sadistic cop could grill a suspect with more brutal intensity than a man brings to the job of questioning the woman who's about to walk...
...what he wanted: the instant, utter and mutual eradication of their year-long tryst. "Thank you for your honesty," he tells her. "Now fuck off and die." It's the loser's victory, which he must extend by ruining Dan's life when he returns to Alice. "The brutal part of the beast," Owen told TIME's Desa Philadelphia, "is the fact that not only has Larry got to get the girl, he's also got to make sure he fucks Dan completely over as well...
...most current films: the inevitable plot points of revenge and uplift, the reduction of human beings into heroes and villains, the avoidance of complexity in sexual matters. If a batch of recent movies were to ask, "Are we sexier, more mature - better - than films of 30 years ago?", the brutal, truthful answer would...
...after a week that witnessed the most brutal up-close combat conducted by the U.S. military since Somalia, victory over the insurgency in Iraq isn't necessarily any closer. Many fighters and the majority of the rebel leadership--including Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted terrorist in Iraq--apparently slipped out of the city in the weeks leading up to the assault. A Pentagon official says that at most, 10% of the enemy in Iraq has been killed or captured in Fallujah. As the U.S. fights there, violence is rippling across the center and north of Iraq, engulfing...