Am I missing something, or do the last three paragraphs in that article, which refer to Marvel superheroes, have nothing to do with the rest of it about Mark Pincus?
Yeah, I really felt like that was a 'hey, this is in Vanity Fair, so we have to write something with deep literary thoughts and connect this bio piece to something more bohemian'
I think it's just part of the writing style required in VF.
I think it's a mistake like the other poster mentioned. I am not a regular reader of Vanity Fair, but their general writing style must be really bad for you to attribute this to it :)
There is a confusing formatting mistake at the end of this article. The Super-hero bit is a preview from another article (see the from the archive block towards the bottom). I guess the article's end break is missing.
I find it funny this was confused with off-beat writing style of VF.