Word: spinnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school Sundays fans will react to Static and Silence in one of two ways: they'll either love it because it's such classic and familiar material or they'll love it because it puts an original spin on the same tried-and-true Sundays product. On the one hand, the old mellow ambiance is there, along with the familiar existentialist love themes: "a butterfly in the wind is drifting like I do/it's dumb--I know what I want to say/but I can't even take one breath." On the other hand, a plethora of extra instrumentation helps...
...comic moves away from those influences as it progresses; in fact, the "Scud" universe is now large enough to have generated two spin-offs. Almost as violent and twice as profane as "Scud" is "La Cosa Nostroid." Illustrated by one Edvis (whose goofy, facile style is as reminiscent of Phil Foglio as it is of Schrab), the book somehow manages to make immature, violent, half-cyborg mafiosi extraordinarily lovable. And Scud's silent sidekick Drywall--a little creature whose zippered skin leads into a infinitely large inner warehouse where he can store anything he needs--has for some reason become...
...With a spin-off series, a video game and now a movie looming in the future, "Scud" is obviously one of the success stories of the competitive world of independent comics. And, unusually, it's succeeded not through literary depth or through the invention of strange new worlds, but through sheer attitude and its own idiosyncratic method of drawing together the disparate threads of popular culture. There's a prevailing opinion that genius consists less in originality than in the ability to bring together what's already in the air, giving it a new life of its own. According...
...killing baby Matthew Eappen ? the prosecution would have had to display a reason why this cannot go through the normal appeals process. Most legal experts couldn?t see one, and the judge seemed to concur. Even in a high profile case such as this, the wheels of justice spin slowly...
...rite-of-passage saga fit for a cartoon classic. Plucky kids dream of breathless adventures in a rainbow kingdom. They will be animators, spin magical musical tales for children of all ages and make pots of money in video and burger tie-ins. But standing guard before the cartoon castle is the evil Cruella Di Sney. "The animated-feature franchise is mine, all mine!" she thunders. "Nobody does it better, and nobody better...