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...action begins when the brawny Luke N. Forglory sets out in search of fame and gold in the old American frontier. Joined by his geeky Girl Scout sidekick, Wanda Buymycookies, Luke seeks the elusive Oregon Grail...
TECHNOLOGY: For iTunes and iPods, new iRivals; a skinny Sidekick...
While Wall Street types master the universe on their BlackBerries and geeks tinker with their Treos, urban hipsters, students and celebrities like Paris Hilton have flocked to the more laid-back T-Mobile Sidekick. First released in 2002, it was a combination cell phone and e-mail device that was easier to use than most handhelds because of a unique horizontal design that allowed maximum space for its keyboard...
...Sidekick II, unveiled last week and on sale this fall for $299, keeps the same basic shape but improves on the original in several ways, including a built-in digital camera with flash, a sharper display and a better speaker design. It comes preloaded with AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo Instant Messenger. Although this version is slimmer than the original, it's slightly longer and weighs about the same. Another thing that has stayed the same is the price. Monthly fees are $20 plus the cost of your TMobile calling plan...
...gave us an Altman-esque fractured look at the strange residents of suburbia (see TIME.comix review). Like its predecessor, number 23 is divided into multiple vignettes, but this time it focuses exclusively on the life of one character. Clowes takes the traditional superhero motifs - extraordinary powers, special gadgets, the sidekick, and the origin story - but eliminates the "super" and the "hero." Instead we get Andy, AKA The Death Ray, a drip of a guy with a completely self-serving sense of morality who beats people up and zaps anything or anybody into non-existence. Through him, Clowes creates a darkly...