Learning To Drive
By Brent Keane
Plenty of people were watching the WATCHMEN, but were any of the creators who followed paying attention? The tremors from WATCHMEN are still being felt today, but Brent Keane is still waiting to see the book's promise fulfilled.

Guest Editorial: L'Esprit D'Escalier
By Ted Naifeh
Why do so many high school geeks go into creative jobs, while the more popular kids end up as executives? COURTNEY CRUMRIN creator Ted Naifeh has a theory. It's all to do with the spirit of the staircase.

Article 10: Cash In The Attic
By Paul O'Brien
Strip-mining the back-catalogue and reinventing old characters is a staple strategy for the major publishers. The creative rewards seem few, so does it make any sense from a business point of view?

Editorial: Cassandra Complex - Compact & Bijou
By Antony Johnston
The first CrossGen Traveler Edition has arrived at Ninth Art Towers; Antony Johnston offers his considered opinion on the digest-sized MERIDIAN: FLYING SOLO. Plus, a fine notion from Montreal retailer Paul Stock on shifting that backstock

Things To Come: Previews March for comics shipping May 2003
By Chris Ekman
Of mice and the man: Fantagraphics brings us Ignatz, Mickey and Quimby this May, but there's also plenty Moore, courtesy of Avatar, Abiogenesis and DC - including the return of A SMALL KILLING.

Minority Report: The Mirror Crack'd Part 2
By Rob Vollmar
Rob Vollmar considers the feminist voice, the second of Elaine Showalter's three phases of women's writing, as it applies to comics, tracking the changes from WIMMEN'S COMIX to NAUGHTY BITS and beyond.

Editorial: Face It, Tiger - Horse Trading
By Andrew Wheeler
Saddle up, as Andrew Wheeler considers why the most low profile of the major publishers just isn't playing the same game as its rivals. Plus, are superhero movies really a fad, or are they here to stay?

Article 10: Supermanchild
By Paul O'Brien
They may often be dismissed as childish power fantasies, but are superhero comics really aimed at children? Certainly a lot of superhero comics are unsophisticated, but then, Paul O'Brien argues, so are a lot of adults.

Editorial: Camera Obscura - Common Ground
By Alasdair Watson
Alasdair Watson takes a look at a possible path for the evolution of copyright, and how it might affect comics, and gives his thoughts on some of the mystery surrounding Marvel's new Epic line.

Doomsday In Smallville
By Brent Keane
Is it time to bring down the curtain on Superman? The success of the WB's SMALLVILLE suggests that there's life in the old icon yet, even if DC has been struggling to find it.

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