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...guess you want me to be this superhero that is going to step in there and suddenly take everybody out of New Orleans." MICHAEL BROWN, former director of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, during tough questioning as he testified before a House panel investigating what went wrong in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans...
...guess you want me to be the superhero that is going to step in there and suddenly take everybody out of New Orleans." MICHAEL BROWN, former director of FEMA, during a heated exchange with a congressional panel investigating what went wrong in the federal response to Hurricane Katrina...
Other cameos seem to cater entirely to the adult audience. Lynda Carter, playing Principal Powers, might directly call out her superhero connection— “I’m not Wonder Woman you know,” she remarks to some detentionees—but few children are likely to nod at the reference. Better yet are the five minutes of nurse time by Cloris Leachman, although sadly her presence might be overlooked by even the older viewers...
...there's another reason you wouldn't mistake Concrete for any other superhero. Chadwick, and not some corporation, owns Concrete, allowing the character to take positions on real issues. When, during a scene in The Human Dilemma, an interviewer asks Concrete if he is pro-choice, "You bet," is the unequivocal reply. The scene startled me into thinking about where other characters stand on major issues. We'll never know, because mainstream superheroes cannot be invested with that level of political awareness. They always have a secret, over-riding agenda, spelled out in the earnings reports of their corporate masters...
...Paul Chadwick's The Human Dilemma, and his other Concrete tales prove the superhero genre has no inherent literary limitations except the ones brought by a character's real-life role in the culture. Either they are there to move you or to move the products they are associated with. Owned by an artist and not a company, Concrete can be invested with meaningful characteristics that give his stories literary weight. Concrete: The Human Dilemma goes beyond mere genre, combining surprising visuals, smart characters, an entertaining story and above all, engaging issues into a work of valuable literature...