I liked the 9/11 Spider-Man too. It was the first thing that made it possible for me to, um, "release" certain pent-up emotions. Ultimate and Peter Parker are also great titles right now.
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Jim Sharkey wrote: > Page 9: Even the bad guys pitch in, inluding the Kingpin, Magneto, and Dr. Doom. >Doom has a tear in his eye, the only false note in the book, IMO, but then, that's >only because I know the character. My feeling about this comic is that it's continuity and non-continuity at the same time. On the one hand, in the wake of 9/11 this is what superheros would be doing; helping out. On the other hand, everyone knows that superheros and super-villains are iconic representations of our hopes and fears, and as symbols it makes sense that superheros and super-villains would *both* weep at the evidence that the lessons they (as fiction) try to teach us (as people) haven't yet been learned. I think the message is not so much that the superheros are with us; it's that the superhero comic industry (i.e. Marvel Comics) is with us, and that to whatever degree comics inspire a sense of values and duty, superheros as icons are a part of what makes real heros. So there's a show of solidarity combined with a small plug of the comics industry for good measure. :-) (Does that analysis qualify as postmodern? <bg>) That being said, I'm really looking forward to the Spider-Man movie too, because between it and Episode II surely there will be at least one movie that doesn't suck! (BTW, if you want to see the best-ever representation of how a "real" lightsaber would work, you just *gotta* play Jedi Outcast!) Marvin Long Austin, Texas
