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...Mister Seahorse...
...SEVEN SOLDIERS Written by Grant Morrison; illustrations by various The SEVEN SOLDIERS saga comprises seven 4-issue miniseries and two bookend Specials - all which may be read independently but combine to tell a colossal 30-part tale, starring Klarion, Mister Miracle, Frankenstein, Zatanna, The Guardian, Bulleteer and the Shining Knight. (February...
AREN'T YOU A REAL-LIFE MISTER CELLOPHANE, IN THAT YOU CAN WALK DOWN THE STREET AND NOBODY NOTICES? I can turn it on and off. Most of the time I look like a contractor, and people are like, "Is that--? No, that couldn't be. That guy's a slob." People can't see Happy Jack from Gangs of New York in a playground with his kids, so they don't make the connection...
...only hope he is terribly unhappy. Which, if this collection of short stories is any indication, he is. His characters in Oblivion (Little, Brown; 329 pages) are corroded by a desperation to express their uniqueness: a marketing analyst who feels so inconsequential that he injects ricin into snack cakes (Mister Squishy), a homicidal substitute civics teacher whose students are not even paying attention when they're taken hostage (The Soul Is Not a Smithy), a therapy patient who kills himself after hearing his pain articulated as a joke on Cheers (Good Old Neon). "I was evidently so hollow and insecure...
...floor, Sergeant Javal Davis jumped into the human heap and stamped on fingers or toes. Frederick seemed "mellow" when he commanded prisoners to masturbate. Once, for no particular reason, said Sivits, Graner beat a prisoner's buckshot wound with a police baton. "The detainee begged Graner, 'Mister, mister, please stop,'" testified Sivits. He said Graner replied, "Ah, does that hurt...