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‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Is Here to Save Us

The Big Picture

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The Lineage of American Art

I think the film does an incredibly amazing job of still making all those distinct styles actually speak to each other and be whole as opposed to just looking like a very bad collage that like a fourth grader made, you know, all respect to fourth grade art. I would also say that comic art is at this point, like a major part of like,you know, American art and so maybe the specific references are not obvious to me, but I recognize what a sixties spider man looks like versus the cartoon that flashed upon my TV screen in the eighties. And it feels like it's kind of collating all of those styles. In some cases, just showing us them to make

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