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...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 pop-up book...
...cringing standstill, especially coming right after the delicately melancholy “Thoughts for the Unknowingly Bored.” “Thoughts” is appealing in its quiet simplicity, though even in the context of a mournful ballad, A + P manages to get bitten by the meta bug again: “The best band’s onstage, and you’ll never see them,” Wilkins sings wistfully...
Here’s the problem: the anthology’s meta-setup focuses on a continuously unsuccessful comic strip. So the comics cannot successfully match their respective eras’ tones—or else, the Escapist’s incarnations might be financially viable, and the project’s plot would be ruined...
Revision and renormalization are legitimate parts of artistic production—the artistic discourse, if you like—and I don’t see how your meta-claim that Blur was both aware of and subverting the ironic ethos of ’90s grunge makes that band any more effective. Introspection doesn’t have to be overt; not everybody can (or should) be Thom Yorke, and just because “Song 2” is an ironic song about irony doesn’t mean that Blur is any more interested in analyzing...
Opener “Song Meat” is just that: Drucker’s alchemical meta-composition of fragile lyrical fragments “which could never be songs.” Sidling into his fanciful form through a soundscape of Pole-like dub and fuzzed out guitar lines, he transubstantiates his snippets’ individual unsongness into lyrical gold. Dose sing-speaks couplets like “what’s left are fires beating off of faces” and “the bright red skeleton of a cynic” until the anthemic refrain...