Word: odysseuses
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...about Comstock's exploits on bookstore shelves this summer--the other is Gregory Gibson's Demon of the Waters--which raises the question, Why is it that we landlubbers can't resist a good sea story, the wetter the better? Nautical narratives have been a cultural fixture ever since Odysseus set sail for Ithaca. Sebastian Junger's best-selling The Perfect Storm made them sexy again, and this summer we're being deluged with nautical tomes...
...another classically themed poem, “The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles,” Penelope—for nearly three thousand years regarded as the archetype of a faithful spouse—indicates to Odysseus, her husband, that she may not in fact have been as faithful as he, and Homer, thought. The poem drives its point home with a jarring conclusion, with Penelope telling Odysseus to “Kill all the damned suitors, if you think it will make you feel better...
...draws cleanly too. The black and white images are "classically" representational and nicely detailed. You could almost count the hairs in Odysseus' beard. Shanower generally eschews experimentation except during a cartoony flashback, and an occasional toying with event's sequence in time. Comix aesthetes may therefore snuff at its mainstream approach, but on the other hand, you don't need a Ph.D. in comix linguistics to appreciate...
...Days evolves in a circular, not a forward, momentum. The contemporary, confected media hype is contrasted, implicitly, throughout the book with the older, mysterious, grassroots spread of the tale of John Henry, who may have died in the early 1870s but who is as impossible to identify historically as Odysseus or Robin Hood. As one character notes, "The Ballad of John Henry has picked up freight from every work camp, wharf and saloon in this land; its route is wherever men work and live, and now its cars brim with what the men have hoisted aboard, their passions and dreams...
...Commentary on spinning the truth [VIEWPOINT, Dec. 25-Jan. 1], Michael Kinsley confused Hobson's choice (no choice at all) with Odysseus' choice between Scylla (the six-headed monster) and Charybdis (the whirlpool). However, a cynic might feel that both Hobson's and Odysseus' predicaments aptly describe the quandary faced by the electorate. HOWARD BARTON Northridge, Calif...