Word: zapped
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...enemies, including the U.S. In the past three years, the People's Liberation Army has moved quickly to implement a new military strategy that relies heavily on this kind of technological know-how. In the future it even wants to add such high-tech gizmos as laser beams to zap U.S. satellites that monitor battlefields, bombs emitting electromagnetic pulses that blind missile guidance systems, and computer attacks that could put U.S. command networks on the fritz...
After three years, Robert Crumb has finally returned to comix. No other artist so dominates any medium as does Crumb, whose black and white, psychedelic-inspired books from the mid-sixties, with titles like "Zap" and "Big Ass," reinvented the art form into "comix." Then he got better. Through the following decades Crumb continued to stretch the form's limits with his mix of biting satire and naked autobiography. When Terry Zwigoff's documentary, "Crumb," came out in 1994, he became the world's best-known comicbook artist. Residing in France since the 1990s, Crumb's output has slowed...
...thing to make sure they have water and freeze-dried stuff in their basements." Some had trouble reconciling their warm image of a merciful God with the chilling warnings they were reading. "They're asking people to believe that we have a God who simply can't wait to zap the Christian flight crew out of jets so they crash?" asks Paul Maier, a professor of ancient history at Western Michigan University and an author of Christian fiction, who finds in the Left Behind books a deity he does not recognize. "You can't believe in a God who would...
...every generation needs to remake its screen superheroes in its own image, why not just replace them with new ones? Partly because comic books aren't supplying them. After Marvel deconstructed the superhero, the comics' top talents started creating more personal, nonsuperheroic work, from R. Crumb's counterculture Zap Comics to Art Spiegelman's Holocaust story Maus to the haunting graphic novels of Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes...
...CRUMB SELLS "ZAP COMIX" No. 1 OUT OF A BABY CARRIAGE IN SAN FRANCISCO, BEGINNING THE ADULT, UNDERGROUND COMICS MOVEMENT...