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Most of Huizenga's stories involve Glenn Ganges, a blank-looking suburbanite in the 18 to 35 year-old range with two dots for eyes and a preference for three-quarter length baseball T-shirts, sans logo. Page one of the first issue introduces him to us in a wordless six-panel tableau of Glenn doing household chores. Less imaginative comix would use the sequence to set up Ganges as a straw man for obvious jabs at the middle class lifestyle, but Huizenga invests something more into his character, whose name, after all, evokes mystical rivers of the East...
...first proper story in "Or Else" #1, "NST '04," introduces many of Huizenga's recurring themes and techniques. It begins with a naturalistic scene of Glenn and his girlfriend idling in a cemetery at night. "The air was thick with the smell of baking bread," reads one panel. When a shuffling sound comes from behind them they turn to see "the undead" rising from their graves. Rather than linger on this classic horror set-up Huizenga instead abruptly shifts the scene to bison on the plains. Though at first taken as a visual non sequitur, this peculiar juxtaposition signals...
...Glenn and his girlfriend ride bikes...
With the bison evoking an Indian Summer in the Midwest, the story moves backward in time to Glenn and his companion spending sleepless nights together. This culminates in a remarkable sequence of Glenn and his girlfriend riding bikes through the early morning streets, dragging their feet in the leaves of the gutter. Turning impressionistic, their bodies, bicycles and the swirling leaves become blurs of unified motion, eliciting the pleasures of movement and the sense of becoming lost in a secret world. By the end of "NST '04" it becomes clear that the zombies were never the point. Instead, using comix...
...SHIELD (FX, TUESDAYS, 10 P.M. E.T.) If you're suffering NYPD Blue withdrawal, this is its 21st century equivalent. The fourth season introduces Glenn Close as the new captain of the precinct, which allows new viewers to discover story lines and departmental politics along with her. While star Michael Chiklis garners all the awards hardware, The Shield boasts one of TV's best ensembles, including the cool, controlled C.C.H. Pounder as the straight-arrow detective (and would-be captain) whom Close has outmaneuvered...