The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (play) reception was enthusiastic, critical reception was mixed. Frank Rich in "New York Times" reported dull passages piling up as "dead weight", while John Simon in the "New York Magazine" felt that the work was a "middlebrow enterprise" doing "scant justice" to the novel. In contrast Mel Gussow, again in "The New York Times", noted that ""Nicholas Nickleby" remains true to Dickens – many of the lines are taken directly from the novel, dialogue as well as narration – and to first principles of theater" when describing the RSC's recast production in 1986. Playwright and reviewer Thomas Hischak, writing in retrospect
Superman: A Tale of Five Cities English. The name of the story is a reference to Charles Dickens novel "A Tale of Two Cities". A main characteristic of this graphic novel is that it features five capitals in Scandinavia. Normally, DC Comics superhero stories happen on fictional cities, for example Metropolis and Gotham City, but in this particular storyline, Clark Kent and Lois have to travel to Northern Europe, going from West to East. To represent that, artist Teddy Kristiansen penciled several famous buildings, monuments and distinctive places from each city as featured in the story, some which are destroyed during Superman fights. Cultural differences, local