Jacked #3
The desire to matter – to be super – also proves deeper and more driving than Jaffe’s concern for his own safety and wellbeing.
The desire to matter – to be super – also proves deeper and more driving than Jaffe’s concern for his own safety and wellbeing.
Superman’s trinity is “Truth, Justice, and the American Way,” for which he fights a never-ending battle of a more infinite importance than any finite lives.
Past experience has proved that even eventually excellent superhero shows have poor pilots, and the dismal debut of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow certainly doesn’t buck this trend.
Replica tries to be as many books as Churchill has clones; it’s a character-centered comedy, police procedural, serious science-fiction examining the ethics of an emerging technology… even mystery, noir, and thriller.
Dru Dragowski is essentially the female Dave Lizewski: an every-nerd relegated to reality with heroic aspirations far more fantastic.
The temptation to intercede, to go from cloister to crusader, is particularly potent, practically palpable in this issue.
Oxenfree combines the magic of analogue and the magic of adolescence sublimely, both working in conjunction with one another to unify its theme of juxtaposing past and future.
Higgins’ greatest success is tonal, ridding the Rangers of their unintentional camp, delivering a series both brightly colored and yet clearly for adults instead of their children or childhood selves.
Clark Kent is not Superman’s identity as a man, but rather his identification with Man, a daily exercise in humility for the individual for whom that virtue is more important than for anyone else.
Superman transfigures into pure light, ascends to the heavens, and makes his dwelling in the Sun until his promised return. He is in this way Ra, Apollo, and, most obviously, Christ.