Exuberantly researched and written ... Although Kimmel’s overflowing, somewhat repetitive toybox of a book cries for some winnowing, it also sparks plenty of wonder – along with a fresh understanding of the serious business of play.
Draws tenuous connections ... Ignores inconvenient facts ... He blurs his focus to cover the well-trodden territory of the comics business and the Jewish artists who channelled their acute sense of outsider status into creating characters like Clark Kent.
In the absence of sufficient evidence to support these repeated claims, they have the whiff of pop psychology, and one gets the sense that Mr. Kimmel is straining to bend the facts to his interpretation.
