Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302508679
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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Collecting Captain America (2018) #1-6 And Material From Free Comic Book Day 2018 (Avengers/Captain America). It’s winter in America! For more than 70 years, Captain America has stood in stalwart defense of our country and its people. But in the aftermath of Hydra’s takeover of the nation, Cap is a figure of controversy, carrying a tarnished shield — and a new enemy is rising! Distrusted by a nation that seems to have lost faith in him, and facing threats including the Taskmaster and an army of Nuke super-soldiers, Steve Rogers is a man out of time — and out of options! Where can Captain America turn for help stopping the influence-broker cabal known as the Power Elite? And which surprising villain is pulling the group’s strings? Join acclaimed BLACK PANTHER scribe Ta-Nehisi Coates for the next chapter of Captain America’s life!

Author: Garth Ennis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781607065555
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Just when you thought Garth Ennis had gone too far, just when you thought it was safe to walk the streets, just when you thought no one would go near the idea of the world's first superhero prostitute... here comes The Pro.

Author: greg studley
Publisher: greg studley
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Take a look inside the twisted mind of a serial-killing comedian as he stalks his prey all across the country. With law enforcement on his tail, and the bodies piling up, he must stay one step ahead because the show must go on.

Author: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486798704
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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A former striptease artist runs a newspaper syndicate's distribution of a superhero comic. When her publisher is murdered, she hunts for the killer among minions of a different sort of syndicate.

Author: Chris Pasetto
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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The minotaur draws first blood! Now, Theseus and Princess Ariadne must unlock the devious secrets of the labyrinth to use against this unstoppable beast. But with their lives on the line, some of their allies are only out for themselves. Each issue contains 30 pages of story!

Author: Christa Faust
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 1785658115
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Adapting what may be the most popular of graphic novels, by the edgy Hard Case Crime author, adding layers and exploring the nature of morality. Faced with overwhelming poverty and a pregnant wife, a tragic, struggling comedian is forced to turn to crime. In his first heist, he is immersed in toxic chemicals that disfigure him bizarrely, driving him mad and thus giving birth to The Joker. For years, the Clown Prince of Crime has been caught in a dance of violence with his greatest nemesis, the Batman. Escaping Arkham Asylum, he plots his most lethal caper. This will be the ultimate punch line... his KILLING JOKE. In their mission to protect Gotham City, Batman and Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) pursue ruthless criminals such as the grandiose Maxie Zeus and Antonio "Python" Palmares. Simultaneously, Commissioner James Gordon and Detective Harvey Bullock take on a cartel distributing the latest designer drug--"giggle sniff," derived from a venom created by The Joker. This rapid-fire sequence of events spirals together to threaten Batman's closest friends and allies, and locks the two eternal foes in their ultimate death match. Copyright © 2017 DC Comics. BATMAN, THE JOKER, THE KILLING JOKE and all related characters and elements © & TM DC Comics and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Author: Chris Pasetto
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Death comes in many forms as freshly spilled blood coats the labyrinth and the streets of Athens. Each issue contains 30 pages of story!

Author: Ritch Shydner
Publisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 030749604X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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In a hilarious look at real life on the comedy circuit, some of America's most famous comics share their own stories of life on the road, gigs gone wrong, and unexpected, zany moments, with contributions by Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Mike Myers, Bill Maher, Joan Rivers, Jeff Foxworthy, and others.

Author: Richard A. Lupoff
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 143444709X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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He was a white, suburban bachelor. A total square. Lived with his mother. Worked for an insurance company. She was a black, tough, streetwise cop. Then somebody stole a quarter million dollars worth of rare comic books. And then people started getting murdered. Lindsey and Plum were like oil and water, but they had to work together, like it or not! Joe Gores, author of Hammett and other novels, said: "Lupoff writes with intelligence, humor, wisdom, and a zest for life. He had a lot of fun writing this book, and it shows; because of it, we have a lot of fun reading it." The Comic Book Killer is the first volume in Richard A. Lupoff's hugely popular Lindsey-and-Plum series. Readers will cheer the return of these grand characters and their exciting investigations.

Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004336613
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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This volume highlights humour’s crucial role in shaping historical re-visions of the long nineteenth century, through modes ranging from subtle irony, camp excess, ribald farce, and aesthetic parody to blackly comic narrative games. It analyses neo-Victorian humour’s politicisation, its ideological functions and ethical implications across varied media, including fiction, drama, film, webcomics, and fashion. Contemporary humour maps the assumed distance between postmodernity and its targeted nineteenth-century referents only to repeatedly collapse the same in a seemingly self-defeating nihilistic project. This collection explores how neo-Victorian humour generates empathy and effective socio-political critique, dispensing symbolic justice, but also risks recycling the past’s invidious ideologies under the politically correct guise of comic debunking, even to the point of negating laughter itself. "This rich and innovative collection invites us to reflect on the complex and various deployments of humour in neo-Victorian texts, where its consumers may wish at times that they could swallow back the laughter a scene or event provokes. It covers a range of approaches to humour utilised by neo-Victorian writers, dramatists, graphic novelists and filmmakers – including the deliberately and pompously unfunny, the traumatic, the absurd, the ribald, and the frankly distasteful – producing a richly satisfying anthology of innovative readings of ‘canonical’ neo-Victorian texts as well as those which are potential generic outliers. The collection explores what is funny in the neo-Victorian and who we are laughing at – the Victorians, as we like to imagine them, or ourselves, in ways we rarely acknowledge? This is a celebration of the parodic playfulness of a wide range of texts, from fiction to fashion, whilst offering a trenchant critique of the politics of postmodern laughter that will appeal to those working in adaptation studies, gender and queer studies, as well as literary and cultural studies more generally." - Prof. Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, Australia