The Smithian

...part horror movie, part buddy comedy, part superhero origin story, this twist on the classic body-snatcher formula—adapted from a popular manga...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a woman in a burka, and...she’s fighting the...Taliban, one book and pen at a time. Introducing Burka Avenger, Pakistan’s first animated superheroine, who, like her American counterparts, leads two lives. By day she’s a “mild-mannered school teacher,” but her secret avatar is the “lady in black” who is always there to save Pakistani girls from the members of the aggressively conservative, anti-literacy Taliban.