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Part of Zuckoff's book focuses on a modern quest to find a plane frozen under feet of snow and ice in Greenland. In this documentary, NOVA follows a team that has one advantage over Zuckoff's subjects; the plane they are after is still on the surface of the island. Darryl Greenamyer, a highly experienced pilot, and a small team of expert mechanics travel to Greenland in order to restore and repair an abandoned B-29 called the Kee Bird, a bomber that crashed in 1947. After two months of work, weather, illness, and mechanical issues force the team to abandon the Kee Bird for the winter. Greenamyer returns nine months later, haunted by a tragic loss among his team, with plans to finish the restoration and fly the plane out. Instead, he finds Greenland has not finished causing havoc to his plans. Readers particularly interested in Zuckoff's modern excavation tale should appreciate this low-key film with its details of restoration, shots of the daunting landscape of Greenland, and its focus on the costs and sacrifices required to try to save these lost planes.In Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? (DC. 2009. ISBN 9781401223038. $24.99; pap. 2010. ISBN 9781401227241. $14.99), author Neil Gaiman has the ghost of the titular superhero attending his own funeral where he is dutifully eulogized by an array of friends and foes. Through these clever recollections, Batman transforms from a mere man to a deified icon whose doomed existence is necessary to bring balance to the world. It is a loving ode to Batman's many incarnations and to the meaning of the superhero in modern mythology, concepts that artist Andy Kubert extends through careful use of perspective and attention to iconic detail.Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Pantheon. 2000. ISBN 9780375404535. $35; pap. 2003. ISBN 9780375714542. $19.95) is the semiautobiographical story...Log In or Sign Up to Read More