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...asking: Who thinks this stuff up? Answer: showmen who will do anything for a scream or a giggle. (Yuen also loves the comic possibilities of physical blemishes, like warts and buck teeth.) But Yuen is only observing the cardinal rule in Hong Kong: these are moving pictures. And an action choreographer is bound to keep the action coming, at whatever cost to logic or taste...
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...
Imagine a Mexican-American TV soap opera written with Federico Garcia Lorca's dramatic intensity and passion for female characters but produced with the randy exuberance of a soft-core-porn video. Then spread it all across the gritty black-and-white panels of a comic book. What you would get is Love and Rockets, the comics series created by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, known to the comixcenti as Los Bros. Hernandez...
...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...
...first four issues of "Sock Monkey" have been collected as a trade paperback. The collection and the individual issues can be purchased at superior comic book stores, but call first. Tony Millionaire also has a collection of his weekly series, "Maakies," available at better book stores and comic shops, as well as a website: www.maakies.com...