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...little forced. The chemistry between Siegel and his love interest, the long-suffering Julie Jordan (Jennifer H. Rugani ’07) is believable enough, though Rugani has a pathos and emotive range substantially beyond her partner. Additionally, Jesse A. Wiener ’08 has considerable comic presence as the rather silly Enoch Snow and possesses an ability to project that is impressive relative to the rest of the cast?...
DIED. DALE MESSICK, 98, one of the first female comic-strip artists, who in 1940 introduced readers to Brenda Starr, Reporter, an intrepid, curvy and impeccably clad journalist who talked her way into exotic assignments, dated hunks and abided no nonsense from her editor; in Sonoma County, Calif. Though criticized by some for being unrealistic ("Authenticity is something I always try to avoid," said Messick), her spy-chasing, shark-battling redhead inspired legions of young women headed for professional careers...
...private, upscale psychiatric clinic. The plot thickens as Dr. Prentice tries to seduce his secretary only to be surprised in the act by his wife, who is herself having an affair. Dr. Prentice’s compulsive lying creates an intricate web of mistaken identities and a comic atmosphere of chaos in which discombobulated characters falsely accuse and misunderstand each other...
...common imagination, comic books are associated with massively muscled men pounding each other into submission. Call it the Superman problem. On the other hand, very few books are illustrated in black and white, let alone feature a neon child-molester named “That Yellow Bastard...
...movie Frank Miller’s Sin City, based on the tales ‘The Hard Goodbye,’ ‘That Yellow Bastard,’ and ‘The Big Fat Kill’ are well aware, this is no ordinary comic...