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...Alec: How to be an Artist," uses Campbell's long-time alter-ego, Alec MacGarry, to tell the story of his struggling years. Using this tether Campbell dives into and returns from extended caveats on subjects like the history of the industry during the '80s "boom-years," the difference between craft and art, and the challenges of remaining an Artist in such an historically disposable medium. Thus it bounces from essay, to history, to criticism, to autobiography in a way I haven't seen comix try before...
...Bozz, the rebellious soldier who helps his friends escape the army before they're sent to Vietnam, Farrell displays a kind of cool that's rare in today's leading men. A sensitive brooder with rugged good looks, he's Russell Crowe without the ego. It's no surprise that admirers are bandying about words like "hunk" and "heartthrob." (About this, Farrell is characteristically ambivalent: "It doesn't piss me off. But it doesn't make me horny, either.") Even his magnetic screen presence, however, can't explain how Farrell has become such hot property so quickly...
Epiphanies come in assorted shades of darkness for Ellroy. His critics call him a crazed voice of violent depravity. But Ellroy, like his bullterrier alter ego, cares little for the analysis. Ellroy just barks...
...Twin cities usually grow up together. For Hong Kong and its dark alter ego Shenzhen, the relationship is something more akin to step-twins. Shenzhen was virtually decreed into existence: in 1980 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping clicked his fingers and invited the people of dynamic, British-owned Hong Kong to make something of the 3.5 sq km stretch of fishing villages and rice paddies just over the border. What arose was a kind of twisted sister, a town of skyscrapers and sweatshops, laissez-faire business and institutionalized lust. Shenzhen is where Hong Kongers go to make love and make money...
Some observers suspect that the agency's formal objections were only part of the story. "The problem is ego over who controls the International Space Station," says Eric Anderson, CEO of Space Adventures, the commercial space-tourism agency that brokered Tito's flight. Some Russians agree. Said former cosmonaut Georgi Grechko in a TV interview before NASA yielded: "We have a new station, and the Americans are showing us who the boss...