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...statement. Created in 1938 by two Jewish colleagues, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, he offered justice for the little guy at the tail end of the Depression and upended the Nazi concept of the Ubermensch. "There was an enormous desire to see social justice, a rectifying of corruption," says DC Comics president Paul Levitz. "Superman was a fulfillment of a pent-up passion for the heroic solution." Batman, a morally ambiguous, revenge-driven crusader, emerged in 1939, at the outset of World War II, as the darker side of the heroic solution. Then when America entered the war, straightforwardly patriotic...
...those lost to AIDS. It was first displayed as a fabric quilt in 1987 in Washington D.C. From an initial 1,920 panels, the quilt has grown to 44,000 panels—a total size of 26 football fields. The quilt has been on display in Washington, DC several times, including at President Clinton’s Inauguration. Likewise, the panels have toured throughout the nation, attracting 14.5 million visitors...
...also hired Hollywood talent: for example, Kevin Smith, screenwriter of the 1994 cult hit comedy Clerks, was recruited to bring the blind vigilante Daredevil back from cancellation. It is now a top-five-selling title and positioned to benefit even more from the 2003 Ben Affleck movie version. DC Comics, Marvel's rival, also has plenty of projects slated for the big screen. Wonder-Woman, Superman, Batman: Year One, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (to star Sean Connery) are all in the pipeline...
...move that seems more like a smart company's buy-in rather than an artist's sell-out, DC comics has just finished publishing Gilbert Hernandez' five-issue "Grip: The Strange World of Men." With his brother Jaime, Gilbert's work on "Love and Rockets" set the benchmark for an entire generation of post-underground comix artists. (They were selected as one of TIME's 21st Century Innovators.) Though the publisher better known for its superhero "properties" clearly didn't know quite what to do with it, Hernandez's "Grip" combines all the elements that have gone into making...
...Gross, creepy, sexy, action-packed and weird, "Grip: The Strange World of Men," completely satisfies your basic comix needs. For years Gilbert Hernandez has weaved the themes of pulp comicbooks into his narratives. Now he has put them all into one story. DC says it plans on collecting the series into a paperback but doesn't have it on schedule yet. Though it would be a relief to read this series without all the intrusive videogame ads you might not want to hold out for this top-notch comicbook...