I went to see "The Incredibles" last weekend and enjoyed it thoroughly. Without giving too much away, it is about a husband and wife who were retired superheroes, except that they had to come out of retirement along with their three kids. It is very funny and quite clever. No blades, though.
The book is Neil Gaiman's Stardust, a lovely fantasy profusely and lushly illustrated by Charles Vess. Do not think of a comic book or of a graphic novel here. This is a genuine, real live novel, but with profuse and beautiful illustrations, kind of like a Celtic manuscript. The story is of your basic "coming of age" quest, but Gaiman is such an imaginative writer that it is in the details where he shines, and the illustrations only make those details even better.
I heartily recommend both of these. I also recommend watching for the new Mustang advertizement. It starts out with a guy driving what appears to be a reaper through a cornfield, only to have it turn out to be a road paving machine and he is making a road through his cornfield. He then brings out a new Mustang and, as he is about to climb into the driver's seat, he sees someone walking out of the corn. It is Steve McQueen in the 'Bullitt" role from the 1968 movie. McQueen/Bullitt climbs into the car and takes it for a couple of hot laps and then climbs out and disappears back into the corn, all very like the film, "Field of Dreams". "Build it and he will come." Hah!
The book is Neil Gaiman's Stardust, a lovely fantasy profusely and lushly illustrated by Charles Vess. Do not think of a comic book or of a graphic novel here. This is a genuine, real live novel, but with profuse and beautiful illustrations, kind of like a Celtic manuscript. The story is of your basic "coming of age" quest, but Gaiman is such an imaginative writer that it is in the details where he shines, and the illustrations only make those details even better.
I heartily recommend both of these. I also recommend watching for the new Mustang advertizement. It starts out with a guy driving what appears to be a reaper through a cornfield, only to have it turn out to be a road paving machine and he is making a road through his cornfield. He then brings out a new Mustang and, as he is about to climb into the driver's seat, he sees someone walking out of the corn. It is Steve McQueen in the 'Bullitt" role from the 1968 movie. McQueen/Bullitt climbs into the car and takes it for a couple of hot laps and then climbs out and disappears back into the corn, all very like the film, "Field of Dreams". "Build it and he will come." Hah!
