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Immediate editorial changes have been minimal. Marvel gave its creators the option to alter content they deemed inappropriate, resulting in the Twin Towers being removed from a scene in a Spiderman book. DC comics also offered retailers the option of returning copies of an already-shipped Superman book which featured aliens destroying buildings...
...rode my first roller coaster, and despite the fact that the Superman ride had gotten stuck moments before I got on, I wound up riding it until they kicked us off and closed the park...
Like the Joker to Batman or Lex Luthor to Superman, the Soviet Union gave America its post-war identity - by being its living antithesis. And the mortal struggle between the two defined and organized the wider world in which they lived, and their place and purpose in it. No surprise then that the optimism that greeted the Soviet Union's sudden collapse a decade ago has long-since given way to a profound identity crisis on both sides of the old divide...
...turn into near-orgies. He worked as an apprentice to several industry luminaries like Walt Simonson and has a style that unites personal expression with mainstream polish. In the funniest story, about a feud with a roommate that degenerates into mutual bedlinen soiling, Haspiel leaps over his friend like Superman...
...expect Superman to become a potty-mouth, or Batman and Wonder Woman "get it on." Although the back cover promises "wild and uninhibited stories," reading the book feels a bit like watching precocious children play with daddy's very expensive toys while daddy watches them very closely. Ironically the results of these "adult" artists' work may well be the best all-ages fare DC has produced in a long time. As with most anthologies the quality varies, but of the nearly thirty tales a number stand out as particularly charming and memorable uses of the famed characters...