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8:53 AM
by Gene
Speaking of China,
Jonathan V. Last offers an unsettling parallel between the comic-book mania of the eighties and early nineties and the real-estate bubble. "Sometimes", he says, "markets don’t 'come back.'" We'd differ, though, on the comic-book movie houses. With fewer people reading the rags one may ask where future tentpoles will come from. We've also seen signs that perhaps the public is not as enamored of comic-book movies as Ub Iger and Mr. BEWKES think. And Superman's been reformulated a million times; eventually people will tire permanently of the taste. Maybe Spider-Man isn't "a co-op in Manhattan", though he lives there.