mythology

For her senior thesis, Natalie Andrewson, a North Carolina native, rewrote folktales from around the world to fit a southern US setting and created illustrations to accompany each tale. Myths from Japan, Brazil and Morocco are placed on southern estates and in murky American swamps.

This week sees the release of Michael Avon Oeming's "God Complex," a comic about a man named Paul who is actually the Greek god Apollo, trying to live a normal mortal life despite his divine family's best efforts at persuading him -- which, as this is comics, means trying to kill him...

If you haven't heard about the Obama "birther" controversy, then congratulations, because it's colossally stupid: A fringe group of conservatives are insisting that President Obama was born abroad, is not a U.S. citizen and therefore cannot be president...