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	Ahab (comics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ahab, real name Roderick Campbell, is a fictional character, a cyborg supervillain from the future in the Marvel Comics universe.
		Ahab followed her to the past and was defeated by the X-Men, X-Factor, the New Mutants and the Fantastic Four during the "Days of Future Present" crossover.
		Ahab is a cyborg and his limbs are mostly of artificial construction and presumably this makes him superhumanly strong.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ahab_(comics) (408 words)

	Comics & Culture: A Step Towards Comic 'Absolution'? by Aarnoud Rommens
		Comics and Culture: Analytical and Theoretical Approaches to Comics (2000) is a case in point and proves once more that the comic strip is an exciting medium and merits to be taken seriously.
		As the comic strip is seeking to define its own theoretical foundation, it is inevitable that it does so in dialogue with the insights developed in these three by either rejecting or transforming concepts to the need of the medium.
		As the superhero comics of the eighties were stuffed with visions of impending doom, the nineties have shown a change of course towards stories with 'an evolutionary, non-apocalyptic content' (215).
	www.imageandnarrative.be /illustrations/aarnoudrommens.htm (1351 words)

	Horsemen of Apocalypse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Apocalypse captured Ahab and turned him into his fourth Horseman, Famine.
		Horseman of Famine: Autumn Rolfson, Ahab and Sunfire.
		In the X-Men Animated Series, the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse were the same ones as in the X-Factor comics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse_(comics) (1614 words)

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		In the words of the Watcher, "Though Jean Grey could have lived to be a god, it was important that she die...as a human." The death of Phoenix was also unusual in that it apparently affected the creative staff as much as the characters they were working on.
		Unlike a lot of comic book deaths (and all the cliches that go along with that term), Phoenix's was referred back to by the characters, and actually had some long-term effect on the path of the comic book.
		Ahab was the Master of the Hounds from the "Days of Future Past" future--the one that Rachel Summers was from.
	www.faqs.org /ftp/faqs/comics/xbooks/main-faq/part4 (5448 words)

	Superhero Encyclopedia: Ahab
		As Ahab, Rory was responsible for the death of thousands of mutants.
		Ahab was instrumental in the capture of Sunfire.
		Ahab is a normal human with nearly 50 percent of his body replaced by cybernetics.
	members.tripod.com /rikmertens/marvel/ahab.html (233 words)

	Sena Jeter Naslund: An Epic of Her Own - 9/27/1999 - Publishers Weekly
		And near the end of Ahab's Wife, when Una meets a whaler named Ishmael and comments on his skill as a storyteller, he responds, "I would suppose that you yourself have a story to tell" -- which, of course, she d s.
		It's fitting, then, that in Ahab's Wife, Una Spenser repeatedly insists that hers is not the only story worth telling, and that both her life and her narrative are infinitely enriched by others' contributions.
		Ahab's Wife has yet to hit the shelves, but knowing she accomplished all she set out to do in it, Naslund d sn't need sales figures to measure the book's success.
	publishersweekly.com /article/CA167334.html?pubdate=9/27/1999&... (1747 words)

	Rachel Summers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rachel Summers, also called Rachel Grey, is a Marvel Comics superhero, a member of the X-Men.
		Rachel was abducted by operatives working for Ahab, who used drugs and hypnotherapy to turn Rachel into a "Hound," a mutant who tracks down other mutants.
		She fulfilled her duties, but her psychic powers linked her to her victims, fueling her grief and despair, until she attacked Ahab and scarred him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rachel_Summers (1677 words)

	Books: Ahab's Wife (Austin Chronicle . 10-25-99)
		Magically born a proto-feminist and agnostic (how she arrived at such free thinking is unfortunately left a mystery), she is sent by her kindly mother to be raised by her liberal aunt and uncle because her father is a violent, religious zealot who intends to beat piety into her.
		She also meets Ahab, who turns out to be sympathetic toward women, wary of the violence of his trade, and an agnostic to boot.
		Ahab's Wife is a book shaped by ideology, with its heroine as the perfect vessel.
	www.weeklywire.com /ww/10-25-99/austin_books_vsbr.html (749 words)

	World Famous Comics: Moby-Dick (Bantam Classic)
		To be fair, the last twenty pages, when Ahab and Starbuck have their final tete-a-tete, and Ahab famously snarls to his finned nemesis "From Hell's heart, I stab at thee!" do cause a frisson.
		From its depths breaches THE MONSTER from the ID:The unkillable BEAST.Yet Ahab and his stalwart Pequod Crew take-up "the impossible nightmare"and pursue the Child of Original Sin to certain death.
		Chapter 96, "The Try-Works," reeks throughout with burning whale flesh, and this passage climaxes with comparing the harvesting of the whale with the madness of the commander.
	www.worldfamouscomics.com /shopping/item-0553213113.shtml (1469 words)

	Artblog.net - comics roundup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		But storytelling fits comics perfectly, and so do an increasingly interesting range of artistic styles that threaten to render both the standard superhero aesthetic and much of what passes for expression in the contemporary art world obsolete.
		What I meant was that the comic form is ideally suited for storytelling even as it can be made to do all kinds of things, and that art had to go through a phase where it did without storytelling, in order to explore where, say, abstraction would go.
		Because of the way time works in comics, even in the example Wwc describes, there is some passage of time - we would feel that we were looking at things in a particular order over the course of a few moments.
	www.artblog.net /?name=2005-10-14-07-21-comics (2650 words)

	the misnomer of comics--a glancing blow against an insuperable intellectual obstacle
		and yet i guarantee that nine out of ten of the comics aren't directed at them, or even wholly understandable by them, and when zippy the pinhead is under threat of cancellation again, it isn't the ten year old who's writing in to save him from the entertainment editor.
		comics are another means of telling a story, and aren't definable as naturally humorous any more than the novel is, or the poem.
		Comics, believe it or not, are an important part of the resistance.
	homepage.mac.com /sparrowsfall/iblog/B2087645656/C1548588669/E1179364049 (2093 words)

	PopMatters \| Comics \| Features \| To Be or Not to Be in This Pair of Tights: Superhero Comics as Literature
		Non-superhero comics from Little Nemo in Slumberland to Acme Novelty Library (which is soon to be featured in a Smithsonian exhibition) are all examples of "high" art.
		And then there is my sloppy love of comic books, superhero comics, with all their contrivances, idiotic plot lines, and sheer adolescent fantasy thrills.
		There is a slew of new comics taking shape that really are original in their approach to superheroes.
	www.popmatters.com /comics/features/000409-bebergal.shtml (1206 words)

	Books (etc) We Like (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Ahab is in error and his influence corrupts the others to his delusions, but he is not out to harm them or take advantage of them.
		Ch.124, Ahab, after fashioning a crude compas: "Look ye, for yourselves, if Ahab be not lord of the level loadstone!" "...you then saw Ahab in all his fatal pride." Accepts the Christian view that pride is the greatest sin.
		Ahab can be compared to racists, religious leaders promoting superiority over others, political/social leaders promoting nationalism and collectivism over individuality.
	bookswelike.net /isbn/067978327X (1949 words)

	He-Man.org Forums - x-men/fantastic four crossover comics
		Can anybody tell me how many different x-men/fantastic four crossover comics there were.
		I didn't get a chance to check it out, though, because by the time I had a chance to get down to the comic shop (my schedule at school is insane) they had already sold out of the first two issues.
		I had the trade for awhile, but the writing and plot were perhaps some of the worst I've ever read in a comic series and the art really wasn't helping.
	www.he-man.org /forums/boards/printthread.php?t=122374 (689 words)

	Suspended Animation Comic Reviews
		Yet Captain Ahab's final voyage to settle a debt with God and a great white whale is one of the great American novels.
		Melville's novel is not held in high esteem for its plot, but for its depth of characterization, philosophical and psychological insight into the human condition, and for its meticulous and accurate historic detail.
		A friend of mine (who is a comics enthusiast) once gave his father (who isn't) a work of sequential art to peruse, at which time his father asked, "Is this another one a' them dang funny books?" Something like that.
	www.starland.com /sus/2001/sus011128.htm (679 words)

	: RevolutionSF - The Matrix Comics : Review
		Many of these early stories, illustrated by a lot of the biggest names in alternative comics, were posted on the “Matrix” promotional website up to a year before the first movie’s initial release.
		A guy named Ahab, the only survivor of a Sentinel attack on his hovership “Pequod”, is obsessed with hunting down and destroying that particular machine servant.
		Comics fans and “Matrix” fans alike ought to be extremely happy with “The Matrix Comics” collected volume.
	www.revolutionsf.com /article.html?id=2121 (1851 words)

	Comic Book Resources - CBR News - The Comic Wire
		"The star of the comic is Ahab, a character with a sketchy past.
		Ahab comes to realize -- right before he's about to help Khufu transfer his essence into a robot -- that Khufu is evil.
		Ahab does his best to stop his quest to become an immortal, and he tries to kill him as he's transferring into a robot body," Asala says.
	www.comicbookresources.com /news/printthis.cgi?id=3880 (978 words)

	IGN: Comics in Context #57: As Grim as It Gets
		Neither Ahab nor Gatsby is the narrator of his novel, but each is unquestionably his book's central character.
		Ah, but to the Powers That Be at DC Comics, she is indeed a minor character in the DC Universe, and one that they have decreed to be expendable.
		People outside the subculture of comics fandom did not realize that comics characters are resurrected from seeming or actual death all the time.
	comics.ign.com /articles/595/595631p6.html (828 words)

	JS Online: Pegleg proved to be a step backward for Rep's Ahab
		When playwright and director Eric Simonson adapted the epic novel for the stage, he figured the actor playing Ahab would strap a foot behind his back and hobble around on a pegleg fitted to his knee.
		Because Ahab's false leg is supposed to be made from whale bone, the new brace was painted white for the second preview, but everyone agreed that didn't look right.
		Ahab's pegleg is broken in the story, and in one scene Pickering still acts with one foot tied behind him while he awaits the building of a new peg.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/sep02/79635.asp (1087 words)

	Jog - The Blog: Splitting headache.
		The ‘star’ of these comics is apparently the author himself, so I’ll just call him ‘Tori’.
		Patterns and expectations are important to this book (more so than in the typical humor comic, granting that humor itself largely arises from the upheaval of expectations): Tori removes a sock, rolls it up into a joint, and smokes it.
		With a wave of her wand, the leaf becomes an artist’s beret, and the stick becomes a brush.
	joglikescomics.blogspot.com /2005/05/splitting-headache.html (1430 words)

	Dave's Long Box: MOBY DICK Classics Illustrated, 1990
		I had a lot of the original Classics Illustrated books when I was a kid; they served as gateway drugs into the world of hardcore classic fiction for a whole generation of kids, and the 1990’s relaunch of the line adopted the same mission.
		There are few comic artists whose work would do justice to Melville’s work, but he’s clearly up to the challenge.
		The comic is steeped in superstition and evil, from Ahab’s phantoms to the blasphemous baptism of a harpoon with the blood of whalers to the prophecy of the captain’s fate – because the boring whale stuff is eliminated, the spooky stuff takes a more prominent role in this adaptation.
	daveslongbox.blogspot.com /2005/12/moby-dick-classics-illustrated-1990.html (2114 words)

	Book Collecting, Comic Book, Books Introduce, Antique Book, News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Comic book collecting has come of age, with prices for important mint-condition books climbing well into the six figures.
		Berk: I'm really into the history, which is why I focus on pre-hero comics [Superman made his first appearance in June 1938] and books and art from what is called the golden age.
		I define the golden age as 1938 to 1949, and I break it into two periods: the war period [1938-45], when you saw a lot of superheroes, and postwar [1945-49], when heroes were on the wane and crime, love and teenage themes gained ground.
	www.book-collecting.net (4167 words)

	MFN Forums - View Single Post - Religions...
		The KJV translators also did not know what the "Asherah" was (a wooden idol representing a Canaanite goddess), so they translated the word repeatedly as meaning a "grove" of trees.
		In point of fact, Ahab made an 'idol' here (the Asherah); his sin was 'idolatry', not planting a grove of trees!!
		Let's not forget that this is the same Pope who is telling the starving people of Africa, a continent ravaged by the horrors of AIDS, NOT to use condoms.
	forums.matrixfans.net /showpost.php?p=337081&postcount=47 (221 words)

	Columns: Finding his muse for stanzas of war protest
		As Meinke pointed out Monday, change one letter in Ahab and you have Arab in combat with the whale.
		Ahab went after the whale to get revenge for an earlier attack in which Ahab had lost his leg.
		In the novel Moby Dick, Ahab goes to his death while lashed by the ropes of a harpoon in the whale's wounded flesh.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/03/11/Columns/Finding_his_muse_for_.shtml (541 words)

	The Daily Texan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the year 4699 (why do all future time periods end in '99'?), groups of space junkers who have assumed the title "whale hunters" explore the deep reaches of the cosmos looking for derelict space craft, or "whales," from bygone wars and ages past.
		Sure, Captain Ahab is present and accounted for, but you can forget that insane scallywag with anger management issues from the novel.
		In 4699, Captain Ahab is a legend among the whale hunters for his fearless, laugh-at-death attitude and the fact that his crew consists of a mere eight brave souls.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /media/paper410/news/2006/01/19/LifeArts/moby-Dick.Retelling.Combines.Good.Animation.CharacterDriven.Plot-1477397.shtml?norewrite200605231543&sourcedomain=www.dailytexanonline.com (404 words)

	Comic Skin Network - CSN -
		In tackling the problem of a dwindling number of comic book readers, Alessi looked at the fact that newsstand distribution of comic books has essentially disappeared – the “Hey Kids, Comics!” spinner racks many of us 20 and 30 something year olds remember have long since disappeared.
		Given the fact that comics have made some in-roads to gaining respectability in the past twenty years, forward-thinking teachers are able to view CrossGen’s program for what it is – an opportunity to make learning more exciting.
		As CrossGen is quick to point out, comics also serve as a natural middle ground between today’s popular multimedia entertainment forms (such as video games or movies, which leave nothing to the imagination) and books (where you must create a world in your mind’s eye).
	www.comicskins.com /csnnews/comfychair/comfy_backup/comfychair_51.htm (1736 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Captain Storm
		Kennedy had been dead several months when DC Comics' Captain Storm, also a PT boat commander, first appeared, but the boats were still well known, and they made a fine setting for a war story that drew prominent elements from Moby Dick.
		The Captain Ahab figure was Lt. William Storm, who, on his very first outing as a PT boat commander, lost his boat, his crew and one leg.
		It was the first time since The Three Mouseketeers (1956) that DC started anybody off in his own title, and the first time since The Sea Devils (1960) that they gave a noticeable launch to a new hero who didn't have super powers or some kind of sci-fi gimmick.
	www.toonopedia.com /capstorm.htm (684 words)

	ahab - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Ahab : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Ahab : Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
		AHAB : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=ahab (130 words)

	COLT: April 2004
		It was Captain Ahab, not the narrator Ishmael, who had a peg leg.
		Also, Ahab's leg was not wood, but whale bone.
		Production issues made publication irregular in late 1995 and the comic went bi-monthly for 1996, only returning to a truly monthly schedule into 1997 - and later one issue was pulled together from stories already published in other countries.
	www.conmicro.cx /~vakko/colt/l-apr04.html (1344 words)

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