City Of Heroes: American Splendor Reviewed

Rob Worley, a Staff Writer for CBR, gives us a rousing review on the movie American Splendor which is based off of a comic book series about the life of Harvey Pekar.

Here's a movie for you: A inspiring tale about a real hero who goes on a great adventure, cheats death, saves a little girl, finds true love and lives happily ever after.

Well, you won't find any of that "phony Hollywood crap" in "American Splendor," Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's filmed adaptation of Harvey Pekar's comic books.

If you haven't read the comics, "American Splendor" basically recounts Pekar's cranky, cynical observations about every day life. Tired of comics that featured superheroes and slick characters he couldn't relate to, Pekar set out to tell it like it is and show a world that resembled the world he actually lives in, a world populated by common, work-a-day people, nerds and misfits who don't have a shred of glamour in their lives. No phony crap.

You can find the rest of the Review at Comics2Film.