It seems to me that women have been depicted (by men) clinging to men long before Dylan and his photographer got their hands on this quintessential moment. Perhaps the word “reinspired” would work better here. Karen Page’s one time junkie whore has kicked her addiction and is now in the arms of her destined love or as Wikipedia helpfully tells us:Ĭritic Janet Maslin summed up the iconic impact of the cover as “a photograph that inspired countless young men to hunch their shoulders, look distant, and let the girl do the clinging”. “And it all ends with a likely Bob Dylan reference, so how much better can you get?”Ĭronin is of course donning the cap of coyness here. The final page of Born Again isn’t a “likely” Dylan reference, it’s a bare faced homage to the cover of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan-the ultimate evocation of tenderness for a certain generation of record collectors the knight in lusterless armor finally getting his girl. In his notes on Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s Born Again, Brian Cronin writes: The Comics and Music roundtable index is here.
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