"You might call it extreme posters that promise extreme action,violence, and moderate sex. The sex is in the implied prowess of the hero, the capability we know we lack. Otherwise why did our heroes of the last ten or fifteen years need the layered-on muscles, the jutting steroid jaws, the flinty eyes, the big guns. Bogart jus tneed a revolver a nd he was interesting, dangerous. John Wayne only needed a lever-action Winchester or a Colt six-shooter to tame an entire continent. These guys need more. We need more. Out dopehadn't been working. We need our firepower. A man can't get satisfaction without a highcyclic rate and large magazine (they never run empty). We need body count-high body count. We need bodies built of great meaty slabs of sinew. We need to kick people's faces off! Why? Because it feels good. It feels potent. We are no longer free. The frontiers are closing, the land is expensive. Only the rich can wander the traceless wastes -the rest of us are releg...