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...budget bonanzas. It is the career path followed by such well-known directors as Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to The Hulk), Brian Singer (The Usual Suspects to X-Men) and Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead to Spider Man 2), and one that often leads, interestingly enough, to comic book adaptations...
...parallel world of comic “studios” consists of Marvel Comics (house of Spider-Man, the X-Men, Captain America) and DC Comics (home to Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman) and indies like Dark Horse Comics, Oni Comics and Fantagraphics Books...
...mainstream comic studios, the poaching of auteurs serves two purposes: a technique to lure readers with a more independent sensibility, such as cynical college students, to characters they “outgrew” and as a look at the creators’ reaction to access to classic characters. These creators are more willing to challenge the dominant clichés of knock-down drag-out fist-fights that characterize much of mainstream comics. As might be expected from a work featuring such a diverse array of creators, the strength and tone of the stories vary widely...
...Gotham. He’s soon forced to deal with a blizzard, a Giuliani-esque confrontation with idiotic city-funded art, and gay marriage rights. The only superheroics, in fact, occur during Mitchell’s flashbacks to his brief crime-fighting career and are generally played for comic relief. In one of the best anecdotes, he gets beaten up by the city’s tough female police commissioner as punishment for his goofy antics...
...laughter crinkle the corners of their eyes. The realism comes out of the artists’ remarkable process: they based each character on a real person, and had their subjects pose for every frame of the book. Then, the pictures were edited into the planned layout for the comic, and Harris made his sketches directly from these references...