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...band Weezer or The O.C.'s Seth Cohen, he is in the grand modern tradition of the swaggering nerd. (The nerd part, by the way, is not unautobiographical. An ardent Lord of the Rings fan, Colbert is the proud owner of a portrait of Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn--drawn in frosting inside a chocolate frame--that the actor gave him after a Daily Show appearance...
...those who read Clowes' Ice Haven and found the constantly shifting visual styles a distraction, Tricked will be much easier to enjoy. Drawn with pen and ink in an unpretentious style, the artwork mediates nicely, if unspectacularly, between realism and caricature. What it lacks in experimentation it makes up for in clarity. Robinson keeps the layouts interestingly varied but always readable, and even occasionally does some stretching with scenes like the swirling panels of characters and events that culminate the climactic chapter. In another nice graphical touch, the lettering accompanying Steve's story becomes increasingly unsteady as he descends into...
...Although somewhat flawed, Alex Robinson's Tricked still has plenty to recommend it as an enjoyable read. Stocked with some memorable characters and drawn in a polished style, the cleverly interwoven tales stay compelling over the book's unusually extended course. Such an accomplishment is no easy trick...
...said to a crowd of about 200. Perry, who is now a professor at Stanford University, compared the U.S.’ policy of deterrence during the Cold War with its current policy of preemptive attacks. He concluded that the best lesson that could be drawn from the Cold War was that patience was necessary in order to deal with the threat of nuclear weapons. Perry criticized some aspects of America’s current foreign policy. During the question-and-answer period that followed the one-hour talk, an audience member asked why, given...
Instead, the music alternated between two narratives: one drawn from album “Tallahassee,” the other from this year’s “The Sunset Tree.” The first is a series of histrionic confessionals by a fictional narrator, while the second drops the overblown emotionality for more somber autobiographical reflection...