Word: marvell
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...major details on the way. His ability to mimic the Munchkins and the Lollipop Guild perhaps doesn’t make for high art, but is a shining instance of his ability to conjure vast cohesive soundscapes using only his voice. During this performance, you could only marvel at the energy and manic zeal that goes into evoking and faithfully capturing the spirit of the original film in seven minutes. His wicked witch, right down to the laugh is a spine-tinglingly faithful recreation. It is, in a woefully inadequate word, breathtaking. And that’s just when...
...there was that first-week scandal and some world-beating, second-week whining, but these, finally, were as fine a Winter Olympics as could be dreamt. In Salt Lake City, winter sport was not only elevated to Wasatch heights by a 16-year-old figure skating marvel from Long Island, it was reinvented day by day, the idea of an ice-and-snow athlete thoroughly redefined. The United States, host and reformer, fielded a team that was as multihued and symbolically resonant as the Olympic rings. Yankee athletes came through wonderfully, and when they didn't, they were...
...rest are personal recollections, like Andy Helfer's "Careful," about becoming temporarily homeless after the WTC collapse, or more fanciful reactions to the events. Several of these have a curiously militaristic edge that makes the DC book the most politically conservative of the 9/11 projects. Bizarre on several levels, Marvel's emeritus editor and comics legend Stan Lee contributes a "lost" Aesop fable with a non-too-subtly-chosen "gentle and caring" elephant taking rampaging vengeance on some dastardly mice. 'Nuff said...
...Marvel produced three benefit books, two of which use their characters to greater and lesser degrees. "The Amazing Spider-Man" #36 ($2.25; 32pp.), with an unusual jet-black cover, folds the WTC disaster into the continuity of the Marvel "universe," which uses New York as the home base for many of its characters. It is of little interest to anyone but collectors. "Heroes," ($3.50; 64pp.), a rapid-response poster book, came out a month and half after the disaster and has now gone into a third printing. It consists entirely of tableaus and portraits by Marvel's top talent past...
Noticeably, Marvel's best contribution to the 9/11 projects, "A Moment of Silence," ($3.50; 40pp.) contains no superheroes. It consists of four short stories without words that are among the most moving of all the benefit comix. Three of the four are true-life stories, like the one about Tony Savas, a building inspector stationed at the World Trade Center who receives a touching tribute as he marches, blueprints in hand, into the doomed building. Mark Bagley's "house style" artwork, normally associated with superheroes, gives the piece a subtle rhetorical flourish...