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...better and worse "The Comics Journal" without Groth would be like "Playboy" without Hef. Groth's cranky, anti-establishment-bordering-on-reactionary tone permeates the "Journal." He wrathfully loathes the majority of comics and will ask unwitting interview subjects questions like, "Why are you in favor of the production of more cretinous, illiterate drivel?" While this attitude creates an island of critical freedom against the crushing mainstream, it also isolates the magazine as elitist and intimidates the fence-sitters or casual readers. It signals "Stay Away!" to all but the most determined...
...Hugh Hefner, the Socrates of what he called "the Playboy Philosophy," was one of the sillier figures of the 20th century. His philosophy, formulated in Woo Grotto and silk smoking jacket with a thousand Playmates, taught the profound significance and value of his Chicago-based hedonism and the creamy topless lubricities that he published...
John Milius, the author of the original script, thought of Apocalypse as a modern Odyssey. He gave it a modern Cyclops (Robert Duvall's demented surfer stud Kilgore, who thinks napalm "smells like victory") and a group of Sirens (the Playboy Playmates who entertain the horny troops). Coppola, deep into his own Big Muddy in the Philippines, was calling his film "the Idiodyssey." He soon felt himself devolving from Willard to Kurtz--from the man on a quest to the madman at its end. But he was enough of a showman to release a picture of Academy-consideration length...
...with the realistic portrayal of an Aquaman doll's bathtub struggle with a piggy handpuppet. Tony Millionaire and Chip Kidd turn in a masterfully sardonic "The Bat-Man." Colored an antique tea-stain brown, with a mood reminiscent of the 1930s horror movies, Bruce Wayne becomes a creepy, eccentric playboy who flies around in his "bat-gyro." Another stand-out, Ellen Fornay and Ariel Bordeaux imagine "Wonder Woman's Day Off," when she skips out for a cappuccino and a poetry slam, with her big-boots-and-tiara-look fitting right into the downtown hipster scene...
...seems to have been the only sign of Dev’s wealth and prestige. He was known for his modesty and studiousness, but never as a playboy...