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...shouldn't take a small publisher, based in Canada, to bring baseball to American comicbooks, but it has. Fortunately, James Sturm's rousing, brass-band-and-hoopla wonder, "The Golem's Mighty Swing" (Drawn & Quarterly; 108 pgs; $11.95) is more than equal to the task...
...with the mythology of baseball as a way of exploring the myth of America. It's a big subject, and not an easy one. You can tell when the baseball-as-America metaphor gets used as an easy trope by a literal player-hater. But "The Golem's Mighty Swing," has the beauty, universality, thoughtfulness, and sweep of baseball at its best...
...Golem's Mighty Swing" can be found at better comicbook stores and online, via the publisher
...Stereotypes swing the other way, too. The image of the geisha still pervades Western ideas of Japanese women. Among servicemen, the gaggles of pretty Japanese girls are a big reason why Okinawa ranks high on the "dream sheet," the list of desired stations for enlisted men that usually includes Hawaii and the bases closest to their hometowns. Demetrius Young, 27, a black Marine Corporal from Miami, has been stationed in Okinawa just a week, and already: "I loooove Okinawa. Why? The ladies, they're all beee-auuu-tiful." There's a difference between viewing the ladies as delectable temptations, though...
...Back at the American village a month after the incident, a matsuri (festival) is in full swing. Children wave cotton candy and scoop at goldfish with paper nets. Shirtless skateboarders do stunts on an open walkway. Women in shorts and bikini tops lick at jewel-colored snow cones. In the shadow of a giant Ferris wheel with a Coca-Cola logo and a two-story emporium called the American Depot march a cavalry of drum-banging young Japanese men. They're sweating through their traditional Okinawan outfits of purple bandannas and swinging orange coats...