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...American than a second chance, and you're getting one right now. Interest rates that briefly hit three-decade lows last fall are tumbling anew, giving those who missed out another shot at dream mortgage rates, 0% financing on cars, and single-digit credit cards. Falling rates have a dark side: pitiful interest income on bank deposits and other savings. They could also signal economic malaise. So take advantage of the benefits...
...Instead, the genial Chaplin, a British actor who made his mark in indie films like The Birthday Party, puts up with being frozen, burned, beaten, insulted and generally treated with all the respect of a Chinese migrant worker. Roxburgh, with a sneer on his lips and murder in his dark, campy heart, all but steals the film. Yeoh's role as coproducer explains why her hair is windswept in at least 75% of the scenes. But you won't hear us complaining about that, or the fact that her co-star could be her son's college friend. She looks...
...always enjoy the art. As with the first "Dark Knight," Miller does the pictures as well as words. His style has gotten goofier in the intervening years. He mixes traditional superhero tropes like broad shoulders and rippling muscles with absurd caricature elements like giant feet and hands. Lex Luthor looks like a Mr. Potato-Head who wears nothing but boxer shorts and hi-top Converse sneakers. Miller shares top billing with the colorist, Lynn Varley, who mixes digitized effects with traditional coloring in clever ways. One scene has Superman standing amid the ruble of Metropolis, where even the colors have...
...Were it not for the importance and maturity of "Dark Knight Returns," "The Dark Knight Strikes Again," could get away with merely being a superior superhero book. It has all your favorite characters presented in fun new ways with exiting, dynamic action scenes. But where the first series gave a new vision of the superhero in the time of Reaganomics, its follow-up doesn't match that boldness. It's too bad since in this post-9/11 world, the time is ripe for a re-examination of our heroes...
...Dark Knight Strikes Back" will be collected as a hardcover edition in late October. Individual issues may be available at comic stores, depending on availability...