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Rosenthal's marketing strategy does not inspire confidence. It is a comic-book variation on the classic conversion strategy used by proselytizers of all sorts, from cults like the Moonies to communists in their heyday to sects within Judaism that recruit among Jewish tourists in Israel. You befriend your targets when their guard is down, disguising your true intent; then you gradually draw them over to your side...
...brothers took a sabbatical from the series, which first appeared in 1981, but this month they--now joined by older brother Mario--are back with all new installments. When the series started out, most underground comics were political satires and science-fiction fantasies, but Love and Rockets told complex stories about real people, bringing a literary narrative form to the comic-book frame. "I couldn't just write a novel, because my work doesn't work well without the pictures," says Jaime, 41. "And I couldn't just do portraits or illustrations, because I need the words to go with...
...HOLY COMIC BOOKS! To appeal to young Catholics, the Vatican has approved a comic book about the life of Pope John Paul II, with emphasis on his soccer-playing, ski-slope-bombing youth in Poland. "He really wasn't a geek!" insists the comic's narrator, Grandpa. Comparisons with other comic-book heroes make us wonder why no one thought of this before...
...concept called the virtual corporation, in which a company maintains just a small core and outsources everything else. During a three-year hiatus after their 1997 record-setting double album Wu-Tang Forever, the group's Wu-Wear clothing line hit $15 million in annual sales, a new Wu comic-book line briefly nudged out X-Men for the top spot in the country, and its first kung fu video game sold 600,000 units for Sony PlayStation. Six Clan members recorded successful solo albums...
...other hand, when that train is wrecked, he is the only survivor--not a scratch on him. This interests Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), who is Dunn's obvious opposite--an elegant, well-spoken dude who runs an upscale store dealing in original comic-book art. He is also afflicted by a congenital illness that causes his bones to shatter on the slightest contact--reason enough, one imagines, to account for his cranky manner...