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The character of those conventional radio signals responded to the weather and time of day in a way that satellite transmissions don't. Late at night, if the skies were clear enough to make out every star in the Big Dipper, the empty spaces on my AM dial would suddenly...
As he got older, two threads in Eisner's work became increasingly prominent: Jewish identity and the urge to use his work to make a better world. The Name of the Game, from 2001 (see TIME.comix review), cast a family melodrama in the little-seen world of turn-of-the...
...spite of its admirable ambition, The Plot doesn't perfectly gel into a masterpiece. It suffers chiefly from a problem I have found in many of Eisner's graphic novels: a sometimes-fatal distrust of the audience. Expository dialogue, repetitious action and one-dimensional characterization make The Plot feel more like a lesson than a deeply involving story. In the biographical first third, for example, character development never goes beyond stereotype, as if giving Golovinski more than one dimension would confuse us. One scene depicts a young Golovinski stealing his mother's necklace for no apparent purpose. Presumably fabricated...
Michael Pitt (the young American in Bertolucci's The Believers) incarnates Blake, the Cobain character, as a stumbling junkie whose monologues are often incomprehensible; we got a hint of their meaning only by reading the French subtitles. He trudges through the woods, swats imagined flies, collapses against doors. One exasperated...
Two weeks ago Yale finally chose a successor to a throne empty since January. A rigorous selection process culminated in the ascendancy of Handsome Dan XVI, following Handsome Dan XV in a long Eli line of bulldog mascots. But of what other illustrious character does this long dynastic sequence of...