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...scene looks exactly like something from a mainstream superhero book, but with important differences. Thanks to starting his career drawing a different kind of loser hero, Marvel's ill-conceived Dazzler series, about a crime-fighting roller disco queen, Chadwick knows the basics of the mainstream look. Using the best of that style, such as its dramatic angles, to create dynamic pages, Chadwick also infuses the artwork with quirks, like the frequent use of X-ray shots into a character's body, so that no one could mistake it for mere hackwork. Another major difference between The Human Dilemma...
...he’s all grown up, and I marvel at it every time I see him standing on that mound, tall and lean, clear eyes blazing under that flat-brimmed...
...Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, about a quartet of mutant superheroes, has been three TV series and a movie. Now Tim Story (Barbershop) tries to please both fans and civilians. The tricky thing about a comic-book franchise is that if you make a movie pure enough for the cultists, it may confuse Joe Multiplex. "I remember when the fans found out Spider-Man wasn't going to have web shooters," Story says. "It was like a march on Washington. But the spirit of Spider-Man was captured, and so they relinquished that fight. I'm kind of in the same...
...literary critics' darling, JONATHAN LETHEM spends a lot of time pondering guys in capes. His novel, The Fortress of Solitude, set in Brooklyn, N.Y., and various short stories include lovingly written passages on superheroes. Lethem is penning a Marvel comic, Omega the Unknown, due in 2006. "Marvel dared me to put my love on the line," says the author, who is reviving a little-known character from the '70s. Omega is "kind of a meta-superhero," he says, a "bewildered visitor to the Planet Earth" with--yes--a cape. Next we'd like to finally see that Philip Roth...
...Harvard reached a peak, though, after the well-coordinated (and from what I hear, hilarious) disruption of the CIA recruitment meeting two weeks ago. Being offended because a group of idealistic students chose to mess with a government effort that they deemed profoundly amoral is ridiculous. Instead, we should marvel at how much power these students leveraged—whether or not we agree with their politics. (For the record, I agree.) They actually stood up and stopped a mechanism of the powerful system they hated, just by being funny. As one friend who was there told...