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...thing about comic books is that they're great to read while you're on drugs. Comics like Silver Surfer--with the best art and mind-blowing concepts and imaginative adventures. And don't forget this is Quincy House--that's all I have to say about that." --Theos McKinney '81, the Comic Czar...
...ATTENTION Q-MANOIDS," it proclaims in bright orange magic marker. "For your reading period pleasure, the Comic Czar provides you with the most awesome collection of comics on campus: THE QUINCY HOUSE COMIC LIBRARY...
...there it is, against the library's back wall, between two racks of magazines: hundreds and hundreds of comic books thrown together in one enormous heap that is truly awesome. Batman and Superman are there, and so are a legion of other familiar super heroes: Spiderman, the Incredible Hulk Wonder Woman, The Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Captain America, and the Mighty Thor...
Oblomov is not a surprise. If the Soviets cannot make a decent adaptation of one of their own literary treasures, who can? And it is a delight, faithful to the soulfully comic spirit of Goncharov's novel-about a man who would rather sleep than fight the modern world-yet gracefully free-spirited in using cinema shorthand to keep the story moving...
...dozens of young Hollywood moviemakers, happiness is being paid to mount elaborate tributes to the guilty pleasures of their youth. Horror comic books, low-budget melodramas, early rock 'n' roll-the trinity of '50s trash -have received the pop-cultural imprimatur from canny directors and writers who see their task as dynamiting the citadel of middle-class tastefulness. Energy is the password, anarchy the politics...