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Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Kim Deitch (Pantheon; 2002) Ted Mishkin, an early animator, has a problem. Is his creation, the mischievous, bi-pedal cat Waldo, actually real? Mishkin thinks so, and it drives him insane in this darkly delightful novel. Deitch, an underground comix pioneer, has a style that combines the quaintness of antique toys with the woes of modern life. Full Review
Nightmare Alley as adapted by Spain (Fantagraphics Books; 2003) William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 novel of the midway gets the noir treatment by underground comix veteran Spain. Graphic novels don't have many adaptations from other media (except for embarrassing movie tie-ins) but this creepy, sexy freak show is one of the best. Full Review
...three buildings will together make up about 670,000 square feet, most of which will be underground...
Last April the community agreed to support the Biological Research Infrastructure, a 75,000-foot underground structure that will house laboratory mice...
...bribed the border guards, Ryu waded across the river. She walked straight into a group of Chinese police staking out the area. After a night in jail, Ryu was forcibly repatriated back to North Korea and sent to a refugee-detention center. The camp consisted of five or six underground cells, each packed with about 80 people. Meals comprised a handful of boiled corn kernels and salty water. The good days, Ryu recalls, were when a guard with big hands dispensed the food, because that would mean a few more kernels of corn...