July 28, 2008
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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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.
Stevo...
You will probably like this one too...
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
By Larry Niven
http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html
Austin Grossman's novel 'Soon I Will Be Invincible' is a nice, moderately humorous take on the superhero genre.
"ponders the enduring appeal of caped crusaders and masked
avengers"
Maybe we're just a nation of dorks, who knows.
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.
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