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...Issue 350 stands out as a top example of classic superhero-genre comic making: story surprises, dynamic action scenes told in clear yet exciting layouts, and characterizations that have life while remaining iconic. But really it just sets up issue 352, as radical a comic as Marvel ever...
...producer Judd Apatow (another Sanders alum), is a laugh-track-less coming-of-age comedy that, like Apatow's Freaks and Geeks, relies less on zingers than low-key humor and well-drawn characters. The Tick is an outlandish spoof (based on a comic-book series) about an inept superhero (Seinfeld's Puddy, Patrick Warburton...
...brothers write and draw the individual stories that make up Love and Rockets separately. Each book typically contains at least two tales. In Gilbert's, the main characters all have some connection to the fictional border town of Palomar; his drawings display a warm voluptuousness clearly influenced by the superhero comics of the '60s that the brothers read as boys. Jaime's plots center on Maggie Chascarrillo, a dreamy woman who drifts in and out of relationships among Los Angeles' grownup punk rockers; his lines and compositions are slim and elegant, though he doesn't shy away from crude cartoonishness...
...ridiculous." Of course he was. Finally, John Galliano's collection (far right) for Christian Dior was inspired by Wonder Woman. Models re-enacted the recent history of female liberation, beginning as Eisenhower-era suburban consumers accessorized with Brillo pads, teacups and plastic babies, and ending as heavy-metal superhero chicks in ripped clothes and boots. Fashion history really is the best history...
...Some may argue that these titles were, in fact, aimed at men. I think some men appreciate them the way some women appreciate superhero titles, but romance comics were never targeted at men. Clearly re-creating romance titles as they once were would fail with women, but why not try for an "Ally McBeal" comic book...