A forthcoming book, "Saint Laurent Rive Gauche: Fashion Revolution" (Abrams), that celebrates Hebey's contribution to YSL's retail identity - a violet-and-tangerine shake-up of Noguchi lanterns, lacquered fretwork and biomorphic benches by Olivier Mourgue - should fix that.
The cast look like their own action toys, yes, but behind Jon Hamm's lantern jaw and Christina Hendricks's rollercoaster figure lies the complex tale of a man without identity and those who get hit by his emotional shrapnel.
Although the fans who discovered Hud Mo through his skull-crushing TNGHT project may be surprised by the direction on Lantern, for Birchard it's a return to his roots, a way of reaffirming his identity as a producer.
Last year Marvel's biggest rival, DC Comics, rebooted its Green Lantern series, in which Simon Baz, a Muslim Arab-American wrongly suspected of terrorism, took on the identity of the popular superhero.
Sutcliff here, as in her later books on Roman Britain that spiral out of The Eagle (The Lantern Bearers and Sword at Sunset, both also wonderful stories) is greatly interested in questions of identity.
Locked by Gothel in a secluded tower for eighteen years, where she is kept unaware of her true identity, Rapunzel enlists the help of a thief named Flynn Rider to see the floating lanterns in time for her birthday.
