Word: superheroics
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Satisfying your superhero jones can be tough when you're a comix snob like me. Finding a book with the right combination of highbrow intelligence and lowbrow kicks has gotten nearly impossible. Fortunately the world still has Alan Moore, the English comicbook writer who first achieved stateside acclaim in the 1980s with "The Watchmen." For the last couple of years Moore has been the principle writer of multiple titles under the America's Best Comics imprint of Wildstorm Productions (an imprint of DC Comics, a subsidiary of TIME.com's parent corporation, AOL Time Warner). Out of the various projects, "League...
...villains like "Jellyhead" - Promethea appears when Sophie Bangs, a poetically precocious teenager, channels her from out of the world of imagination. During the first twelve issues Promethea discovers she is the latest in a long line of Prometheas, all of whom materialize through works of an artist. Mixing typical superhero fisticuffs with darker themes of mortality and sex, plus a soupcon of silly English humor, "Promethea" became one of industry's best genre titles...
Where most conventional superhero books present some sort of evil to be overcome, this series depicts the overcoming of reality. This narrative requires a different, refreshing way of reading a "superhero" book. It's more like one of those smart travelogues that doubles as an essay. "We're in the mercurial realm of language, magic and intellect. It's Hebrew name is 'Hod.' That means splendor," is a typical bit of sometimes overly-didactic dialogue. Moore delights in revealing how everything ties together, sometimes leaving the reader feeling lectured. Even so, he is enough of a storyteller to never...
...still stunned by my childhood superhero, especially when I consider her deftness in the art of multi-tasking. In her world of non-reality, Jem did more for orphans than most dedicated volunteers. But even with these achievements, Jem inspires my adoration for a different accomplishment—namely, being the best female role model in the rock industry I’ve seen to date. Her personal life was intact and PG—we all knew that Jerrica/Jem would be forever faithful to her hunky boyfriend-cum-stage-manager Rio. Even when Jem whipped out the overly-skimpy...
...Were it not for the importance and maturity of "Dark Knight Returns," "The Dark Knight Strikes Again," could get away with merely being a superior superhero book. It has all your favorite characters presented in fun new ways with exiting, dynamic action scenes. But where the first series gave a new vision of the superhero in the time of Reaganomics, its follow-up doesn't match that boldness. It's too bad since in this post-9/11 world, the time is ripe for a re-examination of our heroes...