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Because we all have something to learn from anorexic rich girls and spoiled comic-book nerds...
...credit, is easily understandable, and has no pretensions of grandeur. In contrast to other vampire movies it is particularly understated and director David Goyer (the writer of the first two films) keeps Blade going at a quick, clipped pace. It is a product of its genre, the comic-book movie, and in that sense it accomplishes its goals. It is action-packed. It involves copious explanations of weapon use. And it features a truly haunting sequence set at a vampire blood-bank that finally has the guts to honestly address America’s burgeoning homeless problem...
After winning her first art competition at age 3, this Michigan tot is launching a national comic-book series called Meow...
Coupled with the comic-book action is the presentation of the Incredible family as a typical, if unique, American family. Elastigirl berates her husband for taking the wrong highway exit as the family careens through the city in a rocket. Mr. Incredible loses his potbelly by bench pressing boxcars. His daughter Violet turns herself invisible when her school crush looks...
Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian expatriate, was embraced by the comic-book world when her graphic novel Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood was published in English last year. Her autobiographical tale of a restless girlhood during the Islamic revolution in Iran, told in stark black and white, drew comparisons to Art Spiegelman and his Pulitzer-prizewinning Maus. This month Satrapi is back with her next installment, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return. Part one found Satrapi and her family facing and surviving war, revolution, religious oppression and the execution of several loved ones. Part two begins with Satrapi...