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When Fatal1ty got involved with Quake, an ultraviolent action game you can play online, his price tag got bigger. Quake had an active, organized Internet community that held real-world tournaments. By 1999, when Wendel was 18, he was splitting his time among gaming, attending school and waiting tables. Wendel's parents weren't quite as excited about his career as he was--"I think I spent most of my teenage life grounded from the computer," he says--but he convinced them the old-fashioned way: with cold cash. When he placed third at a major tournament in Dallas...
...Occasionally these stoned tableaux are lightened by intrusions of real-world comedy: the visit of a Yellow Pages ad salesman to a stoned Blake; the door-to-door missionary zeal of two young Mormons. Ricky Jay provides a few moments of irrelevant coherence with his story of a magician named Chung Ling Su. But these interludes can't bring Last Days to life. The film is so studied and self-conscious that the audience can never concentrate on Blake; it can only watch the camera watching...
...hire high-powered consultants, but opposition among neighborhood residents and ordinary New Yorkers runs deep as well. After all, I’ve been organizing around the issue for more than a year; if we haven’t made some progress, I might begin doubting the real-world effectiveness of my degree in social studies...
...Google, the biggest search engine, booked a 118% increase in total 2004 revenue, to $3.2 billion, and Yahoo! has kept pace, jumping 120% to $3.57 billion (thanks in part to acquisitions of Inktomi and Overture). Semel's turnaround story: the once money-losing dotcom has become a thriving real-world business, with 399 million unique users this January and some $840 million in profit last year...
Simply, there are not enough graphic novels that take place in the real world; while the strange dreamlands of The Sandman or the mutant-racism allegory of X-Men allow for beautiful artistic and narrative latitude, these books can refer to real-world issues only obliquely. Ex Machina, however, does it directly and with wry humor. Mitchell comments on the limits to his heroic powers: “People blame me for Bush in his flight suit and Arnold getting elected governor. But truth is…those things would have happened with or without...