Edgar Allan Poe Review
EDGAR ALLAN POE REVIEW
Spring 2002
Review by Stephen Rachman
I must confess that as I sat down to read Rosebud Graphic Classics: Edgar Allan Poe (Issue 1, 2001), a compilation by various artists and illustrators of classic Poe stories and poems, my attention was not undivided. The comic book had competition from the TV. I was about to turn it off when ABC’s latest prime time game show, The Chair, came on. John McEnroe, the most tortured of tennis’ great champions, has found a second career tormenting contestants as they vie for $250,000 in prize money by answering questions while strapped into a supercharged dental chair that measures their heart rate. In order to win, contestants must not only answer all questions correctly but also keep their beating hearts under control while subjected to the host’s awkward banter calculated to unnerve, flames that emerge from the floor, bursting balloons and even a live alligator dangled inches from the face. In the ordeal, contestants are......
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