However wearying the world may seem, the demimonde of comic books has long offered readers an enlivening freak show.
These comic dramas may seem juvenile, but they have a classicism — an attention to nuances of dialogue, an elegance of narrative design — that places them well within the noble tradition of Hollywood romance.
Though its reach may seem reckless, its pace is pure comic strip (several chapters are entirely without punctuation), and a flamboyant vocabulary including words such as 'australopithecine' and 'lycanthropy' fill in for the cartoonist's stock of exaggerated features.
"Franny and Zooey" may seem, on the surface, like a light comic novel about a college student who suffers a breakdown and retreats to her zany family of former vaudevillians.
Like a baseball card or comic book, a sneaker may seem a mundane collector's item, ubiquitous and unremarkable, a comfy combination of padding, leather, canvas, nylon and rubber.
Seeing through objects may seem like something straight out of a comic book, but researchers have found a way to make entire animals transparent from their brains to their bones.
Though that may seem like too tall an order for comic book movies, it's not.
Unlikely as it may seem, there are some cutely judged black-comic moments.
This may seem odd for someone so passionate about comics that he had been selling them since he was 13.
Christmas may seem like a long time away, but for comic book fans, the holiday season comes early: the first Saturday in May is Free Comic Book Day.
