Mainstream Magazine Mentions of Comics
The latest
Entertainment Weekly (#735, October 31, 2003) has a
review of
Mythology, the Alex Ross art book. It gets an
A.
(
ADD
also reviewed the book and gave it a grade of
4.5/5.)
And I forgot to mention this earlier, so I might as well do so
now: The October 20, 2003 issue of
The New Yorker (the
"Making Movies" issue) refers to two Marvel movies,
The Punisher
and
Hulk.
The Punisher is mentioned in an article
on stunts ("The Art of the Crash") and the scene in which the Punisher's family is killed before his eyes is dissected in detail. The character of the Punisher
is described as "the darkest character in the moral universe of Marvel
Comics" and "a gun-toting vigilante superhero" whose simple philosophy
is "'I kill only those who deserve killing.'"
Hulk is
discussed in an article about how writing credits are arbitrated for
movies ("Credit Grab"). Two earlier, rejected plotlines are
mentioned: "The earlier plotlines ranged from having Bruce
Banner, the Hulk's mild-mannered alter ego, hang out with a delinquent
teen-age sidekick in Las Vegas to having him undergo experiments for a
mission to Mars."
