Books
Description: Superman decides to fight world hunger
on a global scale for a day.
There’s actually no way to really describe this story. The
elegance is in the metaphoric writing by Paul Dini. The heartbreaking imagery of
Alex Ross.
Since, Superman, in many ways, represents America, this is
story of how one man can’t really solve the world’s problems with big bold
heroic gestures.
It’s about the little things. It’s about planting seeds and
letting them grow.
It’s about the giant tree that can spring from something
little.
Really, I should save this review for Christmas, because
this is a Christmas story. Superman loving Christmas and wanting to spread the
holiday spirit of giving. To energize people to give and finally coming to a
realization of what that requires.
Description: Batman’s interactions with a boy who has just
lost his parents to crime.
Also, by Paul Dini with art by Alex Ross, this is an
intimate story. Batman’s war on crime isn’t with strange sociopaths and their
strange quirks.
The crime in this story is familiar. The result of poverty
and apathy and pain.
In beautiful images, Batman mediates on the results of loss
and what a true war on crime requires.
It ends where it begins, with the dawn.
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