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Some of these literary, niche comics have inspired movies: last year's From Hell and Ghost World, this summer's The Road to Perdition. But they weren't introducing new men in tights to the mass consciousness. And with few exceptions, superhero comics became cartoon hackwork. "With Steve Ditko, Spider-Man had these sexual undertones to it that read as being the work of a singular artist," says Clowes. Today's successors, he says, are "just a 10th-generation regurgitation of the same stuff over and over." The comic crowd became older, insular and cultish while kids turned to video...
...JIMMY CORRIGAN: SMARTEST KID ON EARTH" BY CHRIS WARE AND "SAFE AREA GORAZDE" BY JOE SACCO ACHIEVE NEW HEIGHTS IN THE ART FORM, GAINING WIDESPREAD RECOGNITION. "GHOST WORLD" AND "FROM HELL" MOVIES BASED ON NONSUPERHERO COMICS, APPEAR...
...impulse screams for the movie to be zippily cartoonish. Yet the story is also Rebel Without a Cause: an agitated boy, the girl he loves, his best friend (James Franco as the Goblin's son) and some adults who never quite get it. Will Spider-Man be Ghostbusters or Ghost World...
...about Robert Hanssen, the FBI agent arrested last year after 20 years of turning over secrets to the Russians. Turncoats are a natural subject for Mailer, who has always behaved like a man in no hurry to dispose of his own paradoxes and whose last big novel, Harlot's Ghost, was a meditation on the CIA. But Into the Mirror is not exactly by Mailer. It's a novelization by Lawrence Schiller of a Mailer screenplay, based on interviews they both conducted. In July, Schiller begins shooting a TV mini-series for cbs from Mailer's script...
...just might happen again. But that can only be the case if the new Red Sox management learn from Harry Frazee’s mistake: nothing is ever worth more than quality pitching. With any luck for Boston fans, No-No D. Lowe can soon kill off the ghost of No No Nanette...