Word: twistings
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...Mattotti has moved the action to Weimar Berlin. Filled with grotesque faces and crippled veterans, Mattotti evokes the world depicted by such "degenerate" German artists as George Grosz and Otto Dix. Other scenes take on the fractured look of Braque and Picasso's cubist work. His lines curve and twist, zig and zag, constantly delighting the eye but never losing form. Using an ochre-colored brush for the outlines and masterful shading with colored pencils Mattotti has created one the most richly, almost garishly, colored comix I have ever seen. In a manner that belongs exclusively to comix, Mattotti...
Take Ribbit by Haier ($259, coming in February), a TV with an ingenious twist on parental controls. Kids have to answer an onscreen math question before they get to watch any channels; the video-game port can also be locked...
...Wood. Still, most SMS ads are legitimate, says Wood, since global brands don't want their names associated with scams. The goal is to establish a hip, positive image, so that when people think of SMS they think of G-strings, not of getting their knickers in a twist...
...hope to. One clever chapter is narrated by Gorilla Watson, an "Adventures of Superman" bad guy who David refers to repeatedly. Gorilla explains that while everything outside David's head is splintered, "Inside it's as tidy and rich as Fort Knox." At the end, in a sad twist the final panel shows Gorilla behind bars with David, calling him, "the best roommate a fella could want." This sort of visual editorial is what separates comix memoir from prose. But while Paul Karasik does a nice enough job of relating his brother's illness, his approach seems conservative compared...
...twist on the classic tragedy The Children of Herakles, Director Peter M. Sellars ’80 puts policymakers, journalists and Boston-area refugees on stage to make a political statement about the plight of displaced persons...