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...never thought I'd say this, but the David-Letterman-vs.-"Nightline" controversy has actually made me feel sorry for Michael Eisner...
Disney World is a prosperous entertainment resort boasting four theme parks, 17 hotels and thousands of employees. Harvard is a prosperous educational institution boasting an undergraduate college, 11 graduate schools, 12 Houses and thousands of students. Michael Eisner is the ambitious, intimidating and fabulously wealthy CEO of the Walt Disney Company, infamous for his dispute with former executive Jeffrey Katzenberg. Larry Summers is the ambitious and intimidating University president in charge of Harvard’s fabulously rich endowment, infamous for his dispute with perhaps-soon-to-be-former professor Cornel West. Everything at Disney and the surrounding area costs...
...Other artists chose to take more abstract approaches in an effort to capture their emotions or address the larger issues. In a collection otherwise entirely printed in black and white, the single exception belongs to Will Eisner's page-sized panel of an old man watching the burnt out towers on television as a red trickle of blood drips from the screen. Nick Bertozzi's piece has a man rush to the emergency room when a tiny plane lodges itself in his temple. But my favorite work, "Treasure," by Gregory Benton, tells of a neighbor's child staying over...
...take care of the baby, and then are suddenly put in charge anyway because Conrad can't be bothered with it. (As if he wouldn't know about nannies.) Later, in a typically absurd scene, Conrad reclaims custody by personally kidnapping the child in the middle of the night. Eisner means for the story to have an archetypal, fairy tale aspect, hammered home by the written-out "fairy tale" version of the story at the end. But fairy tales are not novels. The morals become trite and the characters lack nuance...
...Just keep your eye on the drawings. Thanks to his years of working on the stylish superhero series "The Spirit," Eisner has an expressiveness both in his characters and layout that borders on hyperactive. Every panel has movement, often ending up with a leg or arm poking into the next panel, directing the eye across the page. If sometimes his characters can be accused of overacting, it's made up for by Eisner's grasp of subtle facial expressions. Eisner can actually show you someone going from businesslike to mildly perturbed...