Word: escapists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...editor of The Movie Business Book, "is a way to more readily sell the movie to a global audience." But that global audience is us. Studios wouldn't spend so much money making and marketing these familiar products if we weren't buying. Summer has long been our most escapist season, when we kick sand in reality's sour face and swim in the fantasy that movie magic makes so persuasive. What has changed in the past few years is that instead of escaping into novelty (that shark! that spaceship! that dinosaur!), we now flee to the familiar. Perhaps...
...best-known creators—including Brian K. Vaughan (Ex Machina and Y: The Last Man), bestselling novelist Glen David Gould (Carter Beats the Devil) and legendary graphic novel creator Will Eisner (A Contract With God), whose last story before his recent death recounts a meeting between The Escapist and Eisner’s own The Spirit...
...story, “To Reign in Hell,” follows the Escapist’s helper Big Al as he is bribed by The Escapist’s rival, a nefarious organization known as The Iron Chain. In the end, Big Al helps the Escapist triumph, but there is the clear indication that maybe, for a strongman like himself, evil might have been the right path. By adding moral ambiguity to a classically structured narrative, Vaughn makes the comic compelling even to modern audiences...
...series’ first-ever installment, by übermensch Chabon himself, shows the passing of the golden key that confers powers from the Escapist to a protégé who takes on his mentor’s mantle. Again, the creator utilizes a familiar form in an unconventional fashion in order to mock conventions while still honoring them...
...successful stabs will appeal even to readers who have not read Chabon’s original novel. And the anthology doesn’t need to be read chronologically—in fact, several sections are better skipped. But ultimately, comic readers will be pleased that Chabon plucked the Escapist from the pages of his prose and rendered him anew in living color. And for those who first fell in love with the Escapist and his creators in the context of Kavalier and Clay, the adventure continues?...