Word: pantheons
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...Luba," by Gilbert Hernandez Longtime readers of comics know Luba as a character out of the "Love and Rockets" pantheon, a comic that lasted 15 years until 1990, and is now to be resurrected. In the meantime Gilbert Hernandez has used "Luba" as one of his forums for the cast of characters he created in that pioneering series. Hernandez mixes Latin America with pop-culture America and comes up with an absurdist tele-novella-style work of art. But nicely, while "Luba" has 20 years of backstory, it can still be read as its own work...
...home of sumo wrestling, marathon running is big. So big that tiny Naoko Takahashi - 163 cms and 47 kg - has already become a national hero. She staked a claim for a place in the pantheon of Japanese sport with her gold medal-winning performance in Sunday's Olympic marathon. Not only did she win, but she recorded a new Olympic record time of two hours, 23 minutes, 14 seconds and scored Japan's first-ever women's athletic gold...
Among the pantheon of football plays, the swing pass is one of the more basic, but the key was Meeker did not have to slow down to catch the ball. Rather, his momentum was going forward as he made the catch, so he could easily turn up his jets...
Around the turn of the last century, Friedrich Nietzsche killed God and replaced him with the Ubermensch, or superman. In the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Pantheon; 380 pages; $27.50), Chicago cartoonist Chris Ware goes Nietzsche one better. He replaces God with Superman, the caped hero, who becomes a God/father metaphor to the emotionally crippled title character. Then Ware kills Superman too--or at least a man in a Superman suit, who, in a single bound, leaps to his death from a tall building in a scene, witnessed by Jimmy, that sets the tale's poignant...
...didn't work in comicbooks, Chris Ware would be famous by now. And he may yet be - after being selected for the Smithsonian's design triennial, and having his work published in the New Yorker, his first general-trade book, "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth," (Pantheon, $27.50) will appear in September...