Word: conquistador
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...brain of a monkey named Donovan (a tribute to the 1953 surgical science-fiction movie Donovan's Brain) to find a cure for the cancer that threatens the life of his novelist wife Izzy, played by Weisz. That's one story. Another is the quest of a 16th-century conquistador, Tomas, to locate the Mayan Tree of Life for his Queen Isabella; this is also the plot of Izzy's latest novel. Finally, Tom is a space traveler in the 26th century, finding the Tree, and his destiny, in a giant translucent bubble...
After her dad died, public relations consultant Stacey Udell, 39, of Dix Hills, N.Y., wanted to show her mom Ellie Meyrowitz, 64, a good time away from grandkids and in-laws. Since they both like nightlife and glamour, Udell arranged a stay at El Conquistador Resort & Golden Door Spa in Las Croabas, Puerto Rico. Every day, after lounging on the beach, they dolled themselves up for a night on the town, drank vodka on the rocks and lingered over lavish meals. One night, they went to an art- museum restaurant and found limos outside. Inside, local women in glittery dresses...
...earliest tale has Thomas the Conquistador seeking the tree for his lover Isabel, the Queen of Spain, who is under threat by conspiring forces of the Holy See. The book opens with a Hollywood style set piece as Thomas leads a band of soldiers in an assault on a huge Mayan temple thought to contain the Tree. As hundreds clash on the temple steps a stony-eyed Mayan priest tears the still-beating heart out of a Franciscan friar. It's an exciting sequence that takes best advantage of artist Kent Williams' ability to combine expressive, natural characterization with fantastically...
...Huizenga's world of suburban sprawl may therefore seem a bit more familiar to you than that of The Fountain unless you are a conquistador, research scientist or space traveler. At first lulling you with ordinariness, Huizenga then brilliantly brings the fantastic to the mundane, as in Ganges's opening tale, "Time Traveling." It starts with Ganges taking a walk to the library on an early spring day. As he strolls, he reminisces about doing the same thing at the same time the previous year. The following panel, with a note in the corner saying "Last spring," exactly mimics...
...seedy go-go bar. There she meets Vincent Moody, an American actor who has abandoned his family to work on the crew of Napalm Sunset, a Vietnam War movie being filmed in the Philippines (inspired by Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now.) Like Zamora, Moody has a deep, conquistador carnality, a trait shared by almost all of the men in Dream Jungle, but Rizalina emerges from their affair happy though a little bit wary...