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In the New York Post, Senior Editor Brian Doherty reviews a new collection of superhero short stories and ponders the enduring appeal of caped crusaders and masked avengers.
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|7.28.08 @ 5:33PM|#
Second paragraph of Brian's review made me laugh (yes, out loud):
Dealing with the easily absurd notion of the superhero in a more realistic, gritty, human way than the old-fashioned comic book conception is not a new idea - even in comic books. When the editors announce they will be presenting heroes who are "conflicted, frustrated, freaked out ... a little nuts ... a lot like us," it sounds like the mission statement of Stan Lee when his Marvel Comics reinvented the superhero in the 1960s. But not even Lee dealt with the tragi-comic aftermath of a flying superhero's philandering with dozens of young woman in a small southern town, as in Will Clarke's "The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children."
I'm going to get this book.
Neu Mejican|7.28.08 @ 7:55PM|#
Stevo...
You will probably like this one too...
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
By Larry Niven
http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html
Brian Carnell|7.28.08 @ 8:00PM|#
Austin Grossman's novel 'Soon I Will Be Invincible' is a nice, moderately humorous take on the superhero genre.
|7.29.08 @ 8:07AM|#
"ponders the enduring appeal of caped crusaders and masked avengers"
Maybe we're just a nation of dorks, who knows.
|7.30.08 @ 2:48PM|#
Stevo...
You will probably like this one too...
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
By Larry Niven
http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html
Thanks -- but I've actually read that one already! I think it's in my copy of Niven's All the Myriad Ways collection.
It's a classic.