Word: superheroics
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Updating Superman The original superhero gets in touch with his dark side...
...rapping over a remixed version of a song that Panjabi had made a hit in Britain and India. Even Britney Spears is getting her Ganges on; she used British-South Asian producer Rishi Rich on her last album. And you know a culture is hip when it generates a superhero; that's Bombaby, a cult comic-book out of California...
...thinking of as a kid, but if I was thinking of it in any terms, it would have been more as a painter or something like that. I was reading comics at an early age, and I started thinking about cartoons at a certain point. I remember picking up superhero comics consciously around age 12 or 13, specifically because I was thinking that maybe this would be a good career move. Then I got into the whole superhero scene. I assumed, in my teen years, that I was going to be a superhero artist when I grew up. When...
Pulitzer-prizewinning novels don't usually get comic-book tie-ins, but with Michael Chabon's comic-themed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the move makes sense. The Escapist (Dark Horse Comics), a new quarterly anthology series, collects stories starring the novel's Houdini-like superhero. The first issue includes the Chabon-written origin of the Escapist, with art by Eric Wight, along with several tongue-in-cheek tales by other comic-book writers and artists. Each one evokes a different period of the medium's history: Howard Chaykin turns in a '50s-style hard-boiled story...
Fletcher has gone to bed. Stephanopoulos lies on the couch and sketches a superhero. Both wait for the doorbell...