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...pain. "The more you hurt each other," says veteran Terry Funk, "the more money you make." Funk is one of the stars of this straightforward documentary about a multibillion-dollar, sado-spectacular "sport." Blaustein, co-writer of Eddie Murphy's Coming to America and The Nutty Professor, puts no comic spin on his love of wrestling, but he does get his beefy athlete-artistes to reveal themselves as dedicated, complicated, twisted souls--like any other actors. They know that their punishment is our pleasure...
...countries. A very funny account of the minor woes and epiphanies of a 30-ish single woman living in London, it spawned a host of pale imitations and a humorless debate about Bridget's supposedly debilitating effect on the progress of women. (My two cents: Fielding is a wonderful comic novelist who obviously struck some vein of truth. To condemn Bridget for being a more pathetic version of the rest of us is to miss the point...
...Stan Lee, famous for Spider-Man, has put comics on the Web in the form of "simple, online, animated shorts" [SHOW BUSINESS, Feb. 14]. So what? He's following a trend that has been around for a long time. The real cutting-edge thing in cybercomics has been amateur cartoonists, who've experienced success in the new medium for the past four years. The Web has brought independence and affordability to comic creators. It doesn't cost a fortune to set up a Web page and attract readers. It doesn't make a lot of money for you, but often...
...know because I work on an online comic strip titled Dela the Hooda. We've been turned down by newspapers and mainstream comics, but at least here in cyberspace, we can find our readership. And now demand is bringing cybercomics to print. R. GREG OLDER Merrickville...
...last, a girl-centered comic book that should actually appeal to girls (and even their parents). Krazy, Honey and WooWoo, members of the band Yeah!, have achieved superstardom on every planet but their own, Earth. Here, they struggle with bad gigs and aliens who have crushes on them. Separately, writer Peter Bagge (Hate) and artist Gilbert Hernandez (Luba) have well-deserved reputations as creators of some of comics' most complex female characters. In Yeah!--drawn with a clean line and lively colors--they have collaborated to produce a pop-culture, sci-fi, mainstream comic that finally offers an alternative...