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Rather, writers like Burns and Ware are prime examples of the major weakness of graphic novels: they are emotionally difficult and even hateful to readers. They demand you to be engaged, they demand you to look and absorb every sweat-inducing detail, and worst of all, they mock happy endings...

Author: By Janet K. Kwok, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Comics' Trendy Cousins | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

In the hands of a less skilled artist, “Black Hole”’s nightmarish vision would have more closely resembled those in George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead.” The storytelling in ?...

Author: By Janet K. Kwok, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Comics' Trendy Cousins | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

The U.S. empire, on the other hand, was not created through economic dominance but crafted through political means, according to Hobsbawm. He pointed to this as the U.S.’s “biggest strength and weakness,” since the political forces that hold the empire...

Author: By Lev Menand, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Leading Historian Says U.S. ‘Empire’ To Fail | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

That problem highlighted a weakness in the vaccine-production infrastructure, which, as public-health expert Michael Osterholm says, "is our levee system against a catastrophic event." But even in a perfect world, virtually no vaccine would be available for the first six months of a pandemic. And the Administration has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons from the 1918 Flu | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

Among the brawniest is Abu Samhadana, whose shifting network of allegiances illustrates the difficulties Abbas faces in trying to restore order. During the intifadeh, the Salah ed-Din Brigades gained the respect of Gazans by confronting Israeli soldiers when the official Palestinian military fled. But the group ran its refugee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza's New Strongmen | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

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