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...tape without thinking of Hannah Arendt's famous phrase "the banality of evil." Because 9/11 has caused such reverberations in the world, people have subconsciously endowed bin Laden with the size and force, the diabolical cunning, of a supervillain or, in some parts of the world, of a superhero. The video produces a severely diminishing effect--something like listening to the Nixon Oval Office tapes (though radically different orders of crime are under discussion). The grainy video brings down the image of bin Laden in something of the way that the Taliban blew up the giant statues of Buddha...
Actually, all dirty mutants and not just those associated with superhero teams...
...Just keep your eye on the drawings. Thanks to his years of working on the stylish superhero series "The Spirit," Eisner has an expressiveness both in his characters and layout that borders on hyperactive. Every panel has movement, often ending up with a leg or arm poking into the next panel, directing the eye across the page. If sometimes his characters can be accused of overacting, it's made up for by Eisner's grasp of subtle facial expressions. Eisner can actually show you someone going from businesslike to mildly perturbed...
DIED. KEN KESEY, 66, author and '60s counterculture superhero; following cancer surgery; in Eugene, Ore. Kesey was a rebel pundit and a comic scribe, a longtime advocate of hallucinogens and a lifelong champion of individualism. In 1962 he published his acclaimed first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which later became an Oscar-winning film. In 1964 he traveled cross-country in a psychedelic bus with a group of hippie pals called the Merry Pranksters. The trip, immortalized by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, helped establish the antiestablishment in the public imagination. "I like...
MONKEY BUSINESS Meet Aiai, Sega's newest superhero. Beneath that sickly sweet exterior beats the heart of a dangerously addictive video game. Aiai is the star of Super Monkey Ball ($50), Sega's first title for the Nintendo Gamecube. The game, which hits stores this week, sends Aiai and his pals through an endlessly shifting universe of tilting floors and floating bananas. Pikachu: watch your back...