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...soon as we win this war, said Rosie the Riveter, the phallocracy’s going to send me right back to my Donna Reed suburb to make sure there’s a job waiting for every returning GI...
...December 43), which begins with Geisel doggerel: "Twas a bright sunny day / With the air fresh and clean. / Not a rumor was stirring / Except in the latrine." There, SNAFU misinterprets another soldier's joke about a bombing as a warning that the base is under attack. To a third GI he whispers, "I think we're in for a bombing," and a sign sprouts: HOT AIR. "The hot air is blowing, a rumor is growing," the narrator warns. "Balloon juice is phony, but it makes good baloney." A soldier with a mouth shaped like a howitzer is told: "Now shoot...
Morbid fascination with MICHAEL JACKSON has eclipsed baseball and Yu-Gi-Oh! as our national pastime. On Thursday Fox will air a new prime-time special that will include Jackson's own footage of the fateful interviews with British journalist MARTIN BASHIR. (Bashir reportedly praises Jackson's parenting skills: "Your relationship with your kids is spectacular.") Meanwhile, on Monday night ABC will rerun the show that started it all, and NBC will show a special two-hour all-Jackson Dateline. Only CBS will stick to the relative moral high ground with such wholesome fare as 48 Hours Investigates, which will...
...Wolverine the X-Man and Yugi of Yu-Gi-Oh! got into a fight, who would win? The conundrum isn't as tricky as the Superman-vs.-Batman debate that has divided comic-book readers for generations. Wolverine, an American superhero from the venerable Marvel stable, is a hulking genetic mutant with claws like knives. Yugi, a manga character from Japan, is a stunted schoolboy with a penchant for games and puzzles, low self-esteem and eyes the size of moon pies. When classmates pick on Yugi, girls jump to his defense...
...venture is not without risk. Shonen Jump is up against the tried-and-true formula of American comics, which are traditionally based on red-blooded superheroes triumphing over evil in 36 pages or less. The five series that appear in the 300-page first issue of Shonen Jump?Yu-Gi-Oh!, Dragon Ball Z, SandLand, YuYu Hakusho and One Piece?have nuanced story arcs that may not be resolved for years. For example, the archives of Dragon Ball Z?a tale of galactic war over a set of wish-granting orbs?run to 8,000 pages printed over more than...