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...result of making people's flesh crawl. The number of his books in print (predominantly paperbacks) climbs toward 40 million. Indeed, his pot currently boileth over. Creepshow, an original King screenplay directed by George Romero (Night of the Living Dead), will be released in October; a $6.95 comicbook version of the script has just been published by New American Library as part of the promotional hoopla. An adaptation of Firestarter, the sixth of King's seven novels, is being filmed in Michigan, where local residents have eagerly offered to sell their homes for use in the movie...
...erotic (if live actors were seen doing what drawn figures occasionally do here, the picture might have rated an X). But the animation is crude when it is not pretentious; the score, heavily laden with rock music, is positively bellicose; and the truncated tales told all betray their comicbook origins. As a result, one is constantly distanced from the movie. Perhaps it should be seen by people with something more potent than popcorn coursing through their veins. But even as a trip movie it cannot be compared to such classics as 2001 and Fantasia...
Allen Drury promises this will be the last of his Advise and Consent novels. That is a mercy. The author's comicbook view of humanity and reflex cold-war xenophobia, as well as the clothespins he calls characters and hangs out on his reactionary line, have long ceased to be amusing targets. Drury, in fact, somewhat resembles those Japanese soldiers who refused to surrender in 1945 and spent 30 years with scorpions and coconuts...
Bawdy Doggerel. Pattern's private war-years papers reveal a much more complicated character than his comicbook legend suggested. He was an American original-a brilliant actor who played the aristocratic warrior or the cussing, jingo-spouting brute, depending on his audience. He once admitted to his aide that he practiced ferocious expressions in the mirror, but he despaired of ever having what he called "a real fighting face." He believed in the natural superiority of Americans in general and himself in particular; the ugly side of that self-confidence was a streak of contemptuous racism, reactionary smugness...
Superhang-ups for a superhero, but Superman is not the only hero hanging his cape outside Dr. Feelgood's door. Today almost all comicbook characters have problems. As in many fields, the word is relevance. The trend may have begun a decade ago, but in the socially aware '70s it has reached full blossom. The comics' caped crusaders have become as outraged about racial injustice as the congressional Black Caucus and as worried about pollution as the Sierra Club. Archfiends with memorable names like the Hulk and Dr. Doom are still around, but they are often pushed...