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An examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives. For many, the idea of comic book art implies simplistic four-color renderings of stiff characters slugging it out. In fact, modern superhero comic books showcase a range of complex artistic styles, with diverse connotations. Leading comics scholar Jeffrey A. Brown assesses six distinct approaches to superhero illustration-idealism, realism, cute, retro, grotesque, and noir-examining how each visually represents the superhero as a symbolic construct freighted with meaning. Whereas comic book studies tend to focus on text and narrative, Super Bodies gives overdue credit to the artwork, which is not only a principal source of the appeal of comic books but also central to the values these works embody. Brown argues that superheroes are to be taken not as representations of people but as iconic types, and the art conveys this. Even the most realistic comic illustrations are designed to suggest not persons but ideas-ideas about bodies and societies. Thus the appearance of superheroes both directly and indirectly influences the story being told as well as the opinions readers form concerning justice, authority, gender, puberty, sexuality, ethnicity, violence, and other concepts central to political and cultural life.

The case in question was brought in 2001 by two women, whose identities are protected by court order. Jane Doe No. 1 and Jane Doe No. 2 both paid for an abortion at the private Morgentaler Clinic because they felt the wait was too long at the hospital, where the abortion would have been funded. Both would have faced waits of four to eight weeks at the hospital but were treated within a week at the Morgentaler Clinic. The ruling left the province to refund the two plaintiffs the cost of their abortions but opened up the door for potentially thousands more Manitoba women to seek compensation. The Jane Does' lawyer, Robert Tapper, said he has already had calls from other women looking to join a class action suit. He says Manitoba began funding abortions in the private, not-for-profit Jane's Clinic, formerly the Morgentaler Clinic, last summer, which he says makes the abortion funding issue now \"moot.\" The funding for Jane's Clinic will not be jeopardized by this appeal, he said.

To celebrate the release of Heroes Season 3 - out on DVD and Blu-ray on October 12 - we are giving one lucky reader a signed Heroes Season 3 DVD Box Set, signed Heroes Season 1- 2 DVD Box Set, a DVD Player and a signed poster. The third season explodeswith a new group of villains and fugitives, alongside a rejuvenated Sylar, who appear to threaten the future of the Heroes, new and old alike.

Congrats to New Westminster's Pamela Quesnel, Surrey's Jeanne Shaw, Mission's Justine Cullen, Langley's Jennifer Betts and Vancouver's Trevor Mazurek, who each win a copy of House: Season 3.

WINNIPEG (CP) -- With the mosquito population exploding, the Manitoba government has ordered Winnipeg to spray the controversial chemical malathion across the city. [Tim Sale]'s decision was prompted not only by growing mosquito numbers, but by the discovery of a few mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus. \"It seems like someone's pushing the panic button again,\" said Glenda Whiteman, a spokeswoman for the group Concerned Residents of Winnipeg, which argues that malathion can cause cancer and affect immune systems.

WINNIPEG (CP) -- With the mosquito population exploding, the Manitoba government has ordered Winnipeg to spray the controversial chemical malathion across the city. [Tim Sale]'s decision was prompted not only by growing mosquito numbers, but by the discovery of a few mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus. \"It seems like someone's pushing the panic button again,\" said Glenda Whiteman, a spokeswoman for the group Concerned Residents of Winnipeg, which argues that malathion can cause cancer and affect immune systems.

OTTAWA - Provincial health ministers will confer next week on how to respond to a Supreme Court ruling that struck down a ban on private health insurance in Quebec. [Tim Sale] said the ministers he has spoken to -- [George Smitherman] and Quebec Minister Philippe Couillard -- want to protect the principles of universal medicare. The case was brought by Quebec doctor Jacques Chaoulli and his patient George Zeliotis who alleged the ban on private health insurance violated their rights under the Quebec charter of rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.