| Tuesday, February 01, 2005 |
 | Pavitr Prakhabar, the Spectacular Spider-Man. I think there's a definite "file under irony" here that this is being coproduced by Marvel and India's Gotham Entertainment Group. More generally (which is a phrase I realise is becoming a nervous tic for me), is this more rapacity, or an acknowledgement that India is a market that demands respect and tailoring, rather than the dumping of American product onto the market? I come back to the tendency of poster painters in India to put a bit more fat on pictures of Tom Cruise because the actual Cruiser looks wrong and untempting as a film star. Mind you, it's possible that the business model for this comic is based entirely around fans in the US who will buy the book as an import at far above the cover price...
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