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More Erik Lehnsherr, Less Magneto

Today on Tablet

by
Marc Tracy
July 21, 2011

Why do so many of Hollywood’s big-budget summer superhero movies suck so much? Jacob Silverman argues today in Tablet Magazine that if writers, directors, and producers considered the actual source material, as opposed to the surface brand of it, they would find rich, textured, personal stories that, with their fundamental conflict of singular identity versus subsuming into the group, also happen to be extremely Jewish. Which should come as no surprise, given who the original comic artists were.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.