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Imagine the pitch meeting. "It's a comic book about PRINCESS DIANA! Superpowers? Uh--let's make her a mutant! She's dead, you say? Great! We'll totally save on legal fees!" The foregoing is completely made up, but this isn't: on Sept. 10, Marvel Comics will publish a comic book featuring a resurrected mutant Diana, Princess of Wales. According to Marvel, the comic is a media-savvy satire on celebrity in which Diana must escape evil Eurotrash. The title? Di Another Day. No, that's not made up either...
...anyone in the Marvel-movie field reconcile yang and yin? In "The Hulk", Eric Bana deftly does. He's the strongman - a 6'3", lifeguard-handsome Aussie - who plays it nerdy and needy, a strapping scientist with a troubled little boy inside. Suddenly you notice that the lantern jaw has a weak chin, that this paragon is all too roilingly human. It's the engaging fallibility that marks Bana as more than just an element in a huge marketing campaign. Ang Lee's big green monster movie may not be a smash (it already has flies buzzing around...
...Snarly heroes, sensitive ones and Eric Bana: a decent bloke who seems to have his values on straight. In Hollywood, that's a marvel...
...picture is just as good when the cameras come down to Earth, studying the way the birds breed, feed and socialize. Knowing that its crews exposed 590 miles of film to make a relatively short (89 min.) film, we have to marvel at the patience and fortitude of its 450 makers, shooting in 40 countries...
...Immersing oneself in such a universes as Marc Bell's "Shrimpy and Paul and Friends" is one of narrative art's greatest pleasures. The success of Marvel and DC's superhero franchises owe much to this transcendental escape. But because "Shrimpy and Paul" comes from the mind of a singular artist, it has a more singular vision. Goofy and delightfully baffling, you finish the book like you would come out of a supreme funhouse: dizzy, transcended and collapsed with laughter...