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...Aquaman,” by former Soul Coughing frontman Mike Doughty and Danny Hellman, looks at the titular hero in a tone that dominates many of the book’s stories: the hero as the common, lonely man. Aquaman takes the train to an open mic night at a super-bar called the Sorceress of Follitude. He treats a skeptical audience to a love-ballad called “Mera,” trumped by the arrival of the charismatic bad-boy hero of the bar, Robin. Withering in dejection, Aquaman is picked up by a groupie who invites...
...Take Your Kids to Work Day” to the subversive romantic sympathizing with the dating travails of Deadman, a ghost that can briefly possess the living to the media satire of “The Red Bee Returns,” an attempt by a long-dormant hero to receive mainstream attention. No matter what your graphic novel baggage, the trip to Bizarro World is worth the ride...
...conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant,” Gandhi wrote. The story of India’s nonviolent fight for independence is well known. If nothing else, the popularity of the 1982 film Gandhi ensured that, setting both its eponymous hero and his partner, Jawaharlal Nehru, who would become India’s first Prime Minister, firmly in the American consciousness...
...conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant,” Gandhi wrote. The story of India’s nonviolent fight for independence is well known. If nothing else, the popularity of the 1982 film Gandhi ensured that, setting both its eponymous hero and his partner, Jawaharlal Nehru, who would become India’s first Prime Minister, firmly in the American consciousness...
...most influential and most controversial. Shyam Benegal, an accomplished Bombay director and one of the most celebrated figures of contemporary Indian cinema, has taken the last years of Bose’s life as the subject of his newest film, Netaji: The Last Hero...