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EDGAR ALLAN POE REVIEW. EDGAR ALLAN POE REVIEW Spring 2002 Review by Stephen
Rachman I must confess that as I sat down to read Rosebud ...
... In 1845 James Russell Lowell?s favorable review of Poes works helped bring Poe
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... Martin?s, 1999. Edgar Allan Poe- The Life of a Poet. ... The Portable Poe. New York:
Penguin Books, 1957. ... 5 Aug. 2000. <http://www.epinions.com/book-review>.
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EDGAR ALLAN POE REVIEW
Spring 2002
Review by Stephen Rachman
I must confess that as I sat down to read Rosebud Graphic Classics: Edgar Allan Poe (Issue 1, 2001), a compilation by various artists and illustrators of classic Poe stories and poems, my attention was not undivided. The comic book had competition from the TV. I was about to turn it off when ABC’s latest prime time game show, The Chair, came on. John McEnroe, the most tortured of tennis’ great champions, has found a second career tormenting contestants as they vie for $250,000 in prize money by answering questions while strapped into a supercharged dental chair that measures their heart rate. In order to win, contestants must not only answer all questions correctly but also keep their beating hearts under control while subjected to the host’s awkward banter calculated to unnerve, flames that emerge from the floor, bursting balloons and even a live alligator dangled inches from the face. In the ordeal, contestants are revved like engines, their palpitations monitored and displayed like a red-lining tachometer. Each time a human heart flutters too fast, prize money drains away like blood from an embalmed corpse. How, I wondered, could the lowly medium of comic art or Graphic Classics with its pen and ink sketches in glorious black and white compete with The Chair, a game show that seems to be hatched from the mind of Poe himself? How, for example, could Rick Geary’s capable but unremarkable storyboarding of “The Tell-Tale Heart” compete with a show that makes the murmurs of anybody’s tell-tale heart visible on screen and throws in “The Pit and the Pendulum” no extra charge?
It may not exactly be a fair comparison but it may be an inevitable one, and it may also be one that is invited by this new compilation. Graphic Classics finds itself in the surprising position of being a representative of a slightly stodgier pop cultural medium, an instrument of pop...
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