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...comicbooks focusing on the events of September 11 hit the shelves TIME.comix had to divide its coverage into two parts. Last week covered the "alternative" books. This week we examine the "mainstream" efforts by the likes of Marvel (home of Spider-Man, Capt. America and the X-Men), DC (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, et al.) and smaller houses. The big question: would they, could they, put superheroes into the tragedy...
...Smith, the church's founder. Smith had a unique conception of God. Far from being some misty omniscient presence, God was a being of flesh, bone and hair who'd once been a man but became, in time, through a mysterious process known as "eternal progression," a kind of superman. Lay off the six-packs, cigarettes and sodas, and I could be one too someday, I learned. As an aid in this process, the chapel where I worshipped adjoined a full-sized, well-equipped gymnasium that put my high school facility to shame...
...rare to see comix used this way. Glenn Dakin's early Abe stories ingeniously fold conventional comicbook narrative, superheroes and sci-fi, into works of whimsy and reflection. His subversive use of a superman icon pre-dates Chris Ware's similar usage (though without the bitter irony) by more than a decade. Then by the early nineties he uses comix in wildly experimental ways, mixing poetry, philosophy, fiction and non-fiction into a totally idiosyncratic vision. "Abe: Wrong for All the Right Reasons," finally allows Americans to see what they've been missing...
When Rosanne Cacciarelli Wise, the third-grade teacher, first sees Mike, she too bursts into tears and does a small swoon. "Before Sept. 11, a hero to these children was Superman on TV," she tells him. "After everything awful that happened, they need some good to come out of it, and you've been that for them the last few months. They need a hero they can see and touch...
...thrilled to the idea of your return. But that was then - before our priorities shifted in the wake of the attacks, and before you showed us you're not the all-powerful superman we'd come to expect. Don't get us wrong, there's something endearing about your bad knees, your sore wrist, your human frailties. Now, at 38, you seem more, well, a little bit more like the rest of us, playing for a spectacularly mediocre team, still showing us those flashes of sheer brilliance, but generally slowing down a bit. You haven't gotten the coverage...