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...idea. Use the superheroes to lure mainstream America into reading the work of the independent artists, while also appealing to the audience of those alternative works. (And perhaps breath some life into stale characters?) Some of the better-known indy "names" included in the project are Eddie Campbell ("From Hell"), Gilbert Hernandez ("Love and Rockets"), Tony Millionaire ("Maakies"), Paul Pope ("Heavy Liquid") and Andi Watson ("Breakfast After Noon"), along with about fifty others. Their collaborations have created an anthology of mostly light-hearted takes on the lives of superheroes...
...multiple films in one year, and in his spare time he helps run the DreamWorks film studio. Spielberg has the warmest of directorial styles; Kubrick's is among the coolest. One aims to seduce the audience; the other wanted to bend moviegoers to see it his way, or to hell with them. The resulting fugue is like a piece composed for brass but played on woodwinds, a Death Valley map on which Spielberg has placed seeds, hoping they will somehow blossom...
When you've had enough, it's simple to exit. Fly with national carrier Biman from Cox's Bazar to Dhaka ($35) and home from there. It's not a holiday in hell. And anyway, heaven was never this interesting...
...what did I send my grandmother? I finally chose a blank card with a not-horribly-offensive flower on the front and escaped from card hell. Then I made a beeline for the nearest stationery store, where I gathered an armful of plain, heavy Crane's notecards and envelopes. As I stood in line with my selections, I felt a weight lift: Never again will I depend on America's greeting card manufacturers...
...Still, the principle (I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore) is a good one, especially when the target is not live performers doing something as sublime as Shakespeare, but, on the contrary, dead speakers exhaling dead music that destroys brain cells. It's time for a little rage against the machines that emit such toxins...