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...brothers took a sabbatical from the series, which first appeared in 1981, but this month they--now joined by older brother Mario--are back with all new installments. When the series started out, most underground comics were political satires and science-fiction fantasies, but Love and Rockets told complex stories about real people, bringing a literary narrative form to the comic-book frame. "I couldn't just write a novel, because my work doesn't work well without the pictures," says Jaime, 41. "And I couldn't just do portraits or illustrations, because I need the words to go with...
Most of the details the public knows about him have been provided by Beat himself. He blends fact and fiction freely and his flourishes have become part of his myth. According to his autobiography, which was turned into a television drama, Beat was the youngest of four children, born to a strong-willed woman who ran the household, and an underachieving house painter who drank too much and even failed at joining the yakuza. "My childhood was just a succession of nervousness and tension," he remembers. "We all froze the minute we heard my father come through the door...
...tale but light in every other way, although its tone can be very, very heavy. Abortion figures in, and much is made of changing mores in the era just preceding Roe v. Wade, but the quest for relevance founders in a swamp of hyperspecific, unnecessary stage directions and commercial-fiction panting about uncertain futures and what have you. So wait for the movie (the rights have already been bought). Then...
...fact, we would do well to realize that romantic love itself is a form of fiction. It was the invention of the troubadour poets of the 12th and 13th centuries - they were the Beatles of the Middle Ages - who basically coined the grammar and syntax of romantic love. It is from them that we derive so many of our romantic assumptions about love - that love involves suffering and anguish, that there is love at first sight, that absence makes the heart grow fonder, that a grand passion is life's great ambition and that finally, as John Lennon said...
...penis. That was enough in the early '70s to make him the poster boy of the burgeoning porn-movie industry, and in 1997 the subject of the film Boogie Nights. But Holmes' life, as depicted in this chatty nonporn documentary, was weirder than that star-is-porn fiction. He snitched to the cops about his co-stars, pimped his underage mistress, was tried for complicity in a drug-world massacre and kept making sex films even after he knew he had AIDS. (He died at 43 in 1988.) Like Holmes, WADD is seedy, twisted, a bit on the long side...