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Around the turn of the last century, Friedrich Nietzsche killed God and replaced him with the Ubermensch, or superman. In the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Pantheon; 380 pages; $27.50), Chicago cartoonist Chris Ware goes Nietzsche one better. He replaces God with Superman, the caped hero, who becomes a God/father metaphor to the emotionally crippled title character. Then Ware kills Superman too--or at least a man in a Superman suit, who, in a single bound, leaps to his death from a tall building in a scene, witnessed by Jimmy, that sets the tale's poignant...
...right away!" After the laughter died down, he got serious, noting that his father had joined a labor union while in college and later became a hard-core Communist, making politics a big part of his upbringing and his life, even when he was a Hollywood star in the Superman movies. "At first, it was easy" being involved politically, he said. "I had anger at Vietnam, at the disintegration of the environment. I was angry about civil rights and equal rights. In a time of prosperity, it's hard to keep going...
...other star of the show was a stunning little machine called the G4 CUBE, a Power Mac G4 that Apple's engineers have somehow managed to squeeze into a gleaming 8-in. crystalline cube that wouldn't look out of place in Superman's Fortress of Solitude. Its vertical-loading DVD drive alone is enough to give a technophile goose pimples. Brrrr...
...Hong Kong, but only one Li Ka-shing. Li is a billionaire and a major player in the real estate market, and in retail, telecommunications and power generation. His port operation handles 30% of Hong Kong's trade. His nickname in the press is Superman. Now comes Superboy: Li's son Richard, 33. Last month, Richard took over Cable & Wireless HKT, the territory's telecom giant, using an Internet company he started only 11 months ago called Pacific Century CyberWorks. The deal, valued at $38 billion, was Asia's biggest takeover ever...
...have clearly seen the future in the New Economy and are staking out big claims. The intriguing question about Superman and Superboy: Are they working as a team or as future competitors? Much is made in the Hong Kong press of Richard's attempts to step out of his father's shadow; of how he was passed over in favor of elder brother Victor, now 35, as heir apparent to the Li empire; and of the differing styles of father and son. The father is reclusive, cordial, traditional and lives in the same house he bought...