Word: fictionizing
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...assured that it all really happened, you would certainly be compelled to toss it away as contrived nonsense. The first issue focused on The Meeting, which took place at Disney's "Magic Kingdom" in Orlando, a detail that would have been intolerable if a story so sincere had been fiction. The key first contact moment - the one that a great many fictional romances leave out because it is always unbelievable - happens when Tom asks a woman on an empty bus if he can sit near her and she says yes. Assuming any man deeply in love is to be believed...
...Doucet's "Dirty Plotte," David Chelsea's "David Chelsea in Love," and most excruciatingly, Joe Matt's "Peepshow." An artist who shows something that goes right needs to work harder to find the (inner) conflict. For people like me, "True Story" has a "what if?" appeal akin to science fiction - but those who have a more productive sex life may find it superficial...
...Beland's "True Story Swear to God," has an almost unheard of agenda in comicbooks. It aims to be a "feel-good" work. Lord knows we could use more of that in our lives, but it's a pretty low bar for art. Certainly as a work of fiction this series could be easily dismissed as impossibly cute and unbelievable. Yet it happened. So instead it has the charm and delights of a real fairy tale...
...Asian affairs correspondent for ITN and many months burrowing through London's Imperial War Museum archives and the memoirs of British Special Branch officers stationed within the fractious International Settlement, Bradby has done for Shanghai what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles?created a stylish and cool genre-fiction tapestry. Bradby also conjures a crime boss, Pockmark Lu, to hover above this seething cauldron. "A man who makes Al Capone look like a social worker," Lu controls an army of 20,000 foot soldiers (based on the real-life Green Gang), hundreds of call girls and boys, imports opium from...
Right before her death, Aaliyah had just finished filming her role in Warner Bros.’ newest feature film, The Queen of the Damned. Based on the novel of the same name by contemporary vampire fiction doyenne Anne Rice, Queen is the second Rice novel to be given the cinematic treatment, the first being 1994’s Interview with the Vampire...