Word: superheroics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only has the focus shifted from the first "Dark Knight," but the tone as well. Incredibly, Miller has become more cynical. The theme of the book seems to be peoples' need for "heroes," or rather, their mindless need for leaders. There are few heroics in this supposedly "superhero" book. Even Superman, famously incorruptible, undergoes a massive change of character that, at the end, turns him into a fascist. Seeing Miller handle characters this way has the same empty appeal as watching a sandcastle get kicked over. The Batman of the first series personified a man on edge: cruel yet tempered...
...always enjoy the art. As with the first "Dark Knight," Miller does the pictures as well as words. His style has gotten goofier in the intervening years. He mixes traditional superhero tropes like broad shoulders and rippling muscles with absurd caricature elements like giant feet and hands. Lex Luthor looks like a Mr. Potato-Head who wears nothing but boxer shorts and hi-top Converse sneakers. Miller shares top billing with the colorist, Lynn Varley, who mixes digitized effects with traditional coloring in clever ways. One scene has Superman standing amid the ruble of Metropolis, where even the colors have...
...Depression-era gangster picture "Road to Perdition" earned over $20 million during its opening weekend, continuing the trend of successful movie adaptations of non-superhero graphic novels. Last year's quirky "Ghost World," based on the Dan Clowes book, and "From Hell," the Jack-the-Ripper story by Alan Moore, both became box-office hits. Originally published in 1998 by the DC Comics imprint Paradox Press, "Road to Perdition" (304 pp.; $13.95), written by Max Allan Collins and drawn by Richard Piers Rayner, has been reprinted to coincide with the release of the movie, directed by Sam Mendes and starring...
...main point about Spider-Man: you may be a superhero, but when you get home, you still have to take out the garbage." DAVID P. VERNON Tucson, Ariz...
...form of oyaji gals, young women who get their kicks by dressing in wrinkled men's suits and doing salaryman impressions: swilling beer, belching, picking their teeth. At home, when he kicks back in front of the TV, he's confronted with a Sapporo beer commercial featuring a superhero parody: a balding, potbellied man who dashes into perilous situations. Explains a Sapporo spokeswoman: "It's like cheering for the middle-aged man who has been depressed lately...