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...Things begin to change when, in a subversive twist on the spider bite, Andy discovers he gains superior strength after smoking cigarettes. "It was like my entire body got a giant boner," he says. Naturally he takes this newfound energy to the schoolyard where he pounds Stoob, a mullet-headed jock that Louis has inadvisably provoked. Would you really have done any different...
...Just as Clowes uses the dramatic cliches of superheroes to twist new meaning out of them, with "The Death Ray" he uses the genre's visual signifiers to achieve a post-modern effect. For example, panels of banal scenes such as Louis and Andy watching TV or shopping obscure the traditional two-page "splash" panel of the Death Ray socking a bad guy. But familiarity with the genre's motifs is not required to enjoy the book. With each new issue of "Eightball" Clowes gets more and more skilled at manipulating the formal elements of comix while keeping the narrative...
There was good reason for this. In each case, there was a fair amount of political gamesmanship going on. In each case, the outcome was known before a single vote was cast. In 1991, Kerry managed to twist himself into a pretzel trying to figure out the political angles on the first Gulf War vote. "The Bush people were saying it was going to be a tough war," recalls a former staff member. "John thought they were setting us up. He thought it was going to be relatively easy and the Administration wanted the Democrats to make fools of themselves...
...that the paper thinks aloud, declaring its crusades, anointing, praising and attacking. Who decides the line? "It's their newspaper," says Matchett, nodding toward Mitchell and Stutchbury's offices. "Most of the time the paper has a clearly enunciated line on the issue," he says. "Occasionally there's a twist in an issue, but it all gets debated out." If the leader is the paper's soapbox, the opinion page is its sparring ring. Choosing columnists and commentators to spark or review national debates, page editor Tom Switzer says he runs his choices past the editors, who "sometimes have...
...Greek original, Dionysos, the god of theater, travels to the underworld to choose which of Athens? two late, great playwrights, Aeschylus or Euripides, should return to earth. Shevelove updated it by making the battle between George Bernard Shaw and William Shakespeare. Lane keeps those playwrights but adds a twist: Dionysos wants to bring back Shaw to help save the nation from its current troubles - namely, ?a war we may not be able to win. A war we shouldn?t even be in.? Thinly veiled political punches are thrown throughout; Dionysos, for instance, laments that the nation?s leaders are keeping...