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Like determined ornithologists hunched in the bushes waiting for that extremely rare bird, comix fans have long been scanning the horizon for the arrival of the second volume of "King," (Fantagraphics Books; 72pp.; $11.95) Ho Che Anderson's three-part "interpretive biography" of Dr. Martin Luther King. Now, ten years after volume one we have the penultimate chapter. (Anderson intends to release part three next year.) Historical biography with African-American characters, created by an African-Canadian artist who has kept us waiting a decade for its continuation: if comic prices are truly based on scarcity each copy of this...
...Have a Dream" speech, from Ho Che Anderson's "King" volume...
...Rare and vital, Ho Che Anderson's "King" adds a significant contribution to the depth of artistry and subject matter in the world of graphic literature. Even if read individually "King" volume two works as the complex portrait of a man's rise to power on the basis of immutable moral convictions that even he could not always live up to. Though the ultimate chapter remains to be seen, the "King" series shapes up to contain all the drama and historicity of other great novels...
...whole generation trapped between a discredited Soviet past and a banal, Westernized future, and the absurdity of the situation sends him hunting through the seamy Muscovite underworld for some meaning at the bottom of it all. That he is coached on the way by the ghost of Che Guevara gives you the flavor of Pelevin's darkly anarchic imagination, which reflects the chaos perfectly--but offers no solution...
...from Croix-Rousse to one of the city's bouchons, simple bistros named after the straw plugs once used as bottle-stoppers. For a taste of the local gastronomic specialty of cervelles de canut (literally, silk-worker's brains) - fresh white cheese mixed with crème fraîche and herbs - try Garet, Chez Hugon or Le Musée, where the three Laverrière sisters maintain a 40-year family tradition. There's updated fare at the Boeuf d'Argent, Fleur de Sel and Paul Bocuse's three brasseries, Le Nord, L'Est and Le Sud. Splurge...