![]() ![]() ![]() There was little reason to believe anyone outside of geekdom would take superhero comics seriously, either as art or as a source of intellectual property. Facing a collapse of mainstream interest, comic-book publishers had largely given up on selling issues at newsstands, opting instead to ghettoize their product in specialty shops. The Superman film franchise was drying out and the average person still associated Batman with the goofy Adam West series from two decades earlier. It was also a good metaphor for the state of American superhero fiction that year. Adapted from stories first published in Marvel Comics about an anthropomorphic duck making his way through the world of humankind, the film was a box-office disaster, barely scraping up the $37 million it cost to make. Only one superhero movie came out in 1986: Howard the Duck. Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/VultureĪll week on Vulture, we’re examining ‘80s pop culture, and how it lives on today. ![]()
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This year marks 50 years since Susan Sontag’s essay Photography was published in the New York Review of Books. ![]() ![]() Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. ![]() In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. ![]() ![]() While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. 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