For an Oregonian cover story about summer blockbusters, cartoonists Mike Russell and Bill Mudron have provided a dialogue strip about why audiences keep lapping up films about comic-book superheroes waging good-vs.-evil battles. Click here for the whole thing. And then read Mark Harris‘s February 2011 GQ piece called “The Day The Movies Died.”
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