Word: superheroism
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...America's Best Comics As the industry's only inside outsider, Alan Moore has written the best mainstream books of the last 15 years while maintaining artistic credibility. America's Best Comics, an imprint of DC Comics, publishes the five most entertaining superhero books on the market: "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" (a limited series, now concluded); "Tom Strong," about a science superman; "Promethea," starring a mythical warrior princess; "Top Ten," sort of a "Hill Street Blues" meets the Superfriends; and "Tomorrow Stories," an anthology title. At least one comes out every two weeks and Moore writes or cowrites them...
...writing sophisticated sketches on SNL. Ever since I started Conan, I've been really silly." And lucky. After The Dana Carvey Show tanked in 1996, Smigel had enough money saved to write only when inspiration struck. He salvaged his Ambiguously Gay Duo cartoon (about a superhero combo that is really close) from Carvey and started making episodes for SNL. That, and his work on Late Night as Triumph, the insult comic dog (whose catchphrase is "For me to poop on!"), spawned TV Funhouse. "I have this strange career where I bounce around between these two late-night shows and movies...
...mentor at a local YMCA, picked Wayne to join Sports Scholars, a physically demanding daily program for young boys. In a journal that Sibley required, Wayne drew an early picture of himself: sweaty, rotund, sad. At summer's end, a new doodle showed a beaming, muscular boy in a superhero's cape. By his November visit to OWL, Wayne had shed the dark skin on his neck--and lost...
...never even gets the sniffles. He is, to borrow this film's perfectly descriptive title, Unbreakable. Moreover, under Price's possibly prompting gaze, he develops a talent for spotting criminals before they actually commit a crime. Despite his modest demeanor and circumstances, Dunn has the potential to be a superhero working the real-life streets of Philadelphia...
What Joe and Sammy cannot elude is the postwar era. With graphic comic-book imagery, Chabon writes that the classic superhero "had fallen beneath the whirling thresher blades of changing tastes." By the '50s, Kavalier and Clay are not only old hat but also targets of a congressional committee investigating the effects of comic books on children. Then, like Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the real-life team that begat Superman, Chabon's fictional duo lose the rights to their character in a dispute with cutthroat publishers. Screwing the talent is an old story, but never before told with...