Word: superealism
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...blue crabs couldn’t be any fresher at the Super 88, where the fishmongers will scoop out your selection—claws still waving—from an open tank and bag it for you to go. “This is the place to come for the [East] Asian ingredients you can’t get anywhere else,” says Akemi Yanada, a Cantabrigian who has shopped here since moving from Japan five years ago. She personally recommends their extensive noodle collection, which takes up more than one long supermarket aisle...
Among other highlights, "Super Unleaded" sketches a devastating portrait of dysfunctional family dynamics in just a few short pages. The unnamed teenage narrator has become the reluctant communication bridge between his non-verbal parents. That he is the child of a Korean mother and Caucasian father only adds to the story's complexity without making it strictly about cultural gulfs. On the opposite end of the comix scale is "Oliver Pikk," featuring a walking, talking skewered olive who complains about his sex life. Why doesn't he believe in aliens, for example? Because, "the thought of an entire species...
...Among other things, Kim has an impressively varied cartooning style. While "Super Unleaded" gets rendered with a cinematic look that underscores its naturalism, "Oliver Pikk" has a zany, Saturday morning cartoonishness. "Same Difference" deftly combines these two styles, blending a realistic approach with some silly caricature. For a debut, "Same Difference" shows a remarkable level of accomplishment at comicbook craft. Although many web comics transfer badly to the printed page, only a few minor pieces in the book suffer, mostly due to blurry typeface...
...unhip, he's cool. After you win two Super Bowls, a quirk in your personality becomes endearing. If Bill Belichick, coach of the New England Patriots, did not win, people would say he was not flamboyant enough, that he couldn't relate to the pro football player. That was said during his tenure with the Cleveland Browns in the early 1990s. And it was wrong...
...pair will certainly be given at least a few chances to redeem themselves. A commercial or critical failure used to be the first sign of the apocalypse in a singer or movie star’s career, but these days it is understood that both mortals and the super-famous make mistakes. As a result, fame is no longer just about the quality of a performer’s latest film or album—it’s also about how that product seems to play into a singer or actor’s strategy to conserve...