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The League of Regrettable Sidekicks : heroic helpers and malicious minions from comic book history!
\"Being a superhero is hard work, which is why so many comics characters rely on a sidekick for help. Someone who can watch the hero's back, help search for clues, or, if nothing else, give the hero someone to talk to. But just as not every superhero achieves the glory of Batman, not all sidekicks are as capable as the Boy Wonder. In The League of Regrettable Sidekicks, author Jon Morris discusses some of the strangest iterations of the sidekick phenomenon, and in the process explores how important these characters were to comic book storytelling. You'll meet plucky but forgotten helpers like Thunderfoot (explosive-soled assistant to the Human Bomb), heroic super-pets (like Frosting, polar bear pal of space hero Norge Benson), fan favorites (say hello to Rick Jones, sidekick to half of the Marvel Universe), and obscure partners of iconic heroes (Superman Junior's career barely got off the ground). Plus: pernicious profiles of regrettable henchmen and minions, the sidekicks of the supervillain world. Vintage art from the comics completes the experience. Drawing on the entire history of the medium, The League of Regrettable Sidekicks celebrates characters and stories that haven't seen the light of day in decades, pulling from defunct and long-forgotten comics publishers as well as DC and Marvel. In this third volume of his Regrettable series (The League of Regrettable Superheroes, The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains) Jon Morris provides insight and context, as well as his signature mockery of and affection for these overlooked treasures from comic book history.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Super Bodies
An examination of the art in superhero comics and how
style influences comic narratives. For many, the idea of
comic book art implies simplistic four-color renderings of stiff
characters slugging it out. In fact, modern superhero comic books
showcase a range of complex artistic styles, with diverse
connotations. Leading comics scholar Jeffrey A. Brown assesses six
distinct approaches to superhero illustration-idealism, realism,
cute, retro, grotesque, and noir-examining how each visually
represents the superhero as a symbolic construct freighted with
meaning.
Whereas comic book studies tend to focus on text and narrative,
Super Bodies gives overdue credit to the artwork, which is
not only a principal source of the appeal of comic books but also
central to the values these works embody. Brown argues that
superheroes are to be taken not as representations of people but as
iconic types, and the art conveys this. Even the most realistic
comic illustrations are designed to suggest not persons but
ideas-ideas about bodies and societies. Thus the appearance of
superheroes both directly and indirectly influences the story being
told as well as the opinions readers form concerning justice,
authority, gender, puberty, sexuality, ethnicity, violence, and
other concepts central to political and cultural life.
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Legion of Super-Heroes, the Silver Age omnibus
\"Now collected in an oversize omnibus edition for the first time, DC proudly presents the LEGION OF SUPERH-HEROES: THE SILVER AGE OMNIBUS! Originally introduced in 1958, the Legion of Super-Heroes is a team of super-powered teenagers from the disparate worlds of the 30th century's United Planets. Each hero had his or her own powers, unique to their planets of origin; together, they stood against evil across the galaxy. Together with 20th century hero Superboy, this team--originally made up of Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy, but soon numbering in the dozens--fought for justice as they dealt with adolescent insecurities.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Comic Book Women
The history of comics has centered almost exclusively on men.
Comics historians largely describe the medium as one built by men
telling tales about male protagonists, neglecting the many ways in
which women fought for legitimacy on the page and in publishers'
studios. Despite this male-dominated focus, women played vital
roles in the early history of comics. The story of how comic books
were born and how they evolved changes dramatically when women like
June Tarpé Mills and Lily Renée are placed at the center rather
than at the margins of this history, and when characters such as
the Black Cat, Patsy Walker, and Señorita Rio are analyzed.
Comic Book Women offers a feminist history of the
golden age of comics, revising our understanding of how numerous
genres emerged and upending narratives of how male auteurs built
their careers. Considering issues of race, gender, and sexuality,
the authors examine crime, horror, jungle, romance, science
fiction, superhero, and Western comics to unpack the cultural and
industrial consequences of how women were represented across a wide
range of titles by publishers like DC, Timely, Fiction House, and
others. This revisionist history reclaims the forgotten work done
by women in the comics industry and reinserts female creators and
characters into the canon of comics history.
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Ms. Marvel. Vol. 8, Mecca
\"An enemy from Ms. Marvel's past resurfaces and begins targeting those closest to Kamala. As the world around her is spinning out of control, it becomes clear that this time there's something more sinister at work. Kamala's no stranger to fighting for what's right, but in facing down this challenge, everything she is will be called into question\"--Amazon.com.
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A-Force. Vol. 0, Warzones!
\"In a secluded corner of the Battleworld, an island nation is fiercely protected by a team of Avengers the likes of which has only ever been glimpsed before. Fighting to protect the small sliver of their world that's left, the Amazing A-FORCE stands shoulder to shoulder, ready to take on the horde!\"--Amazon.com.
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Fan phenomena
Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. From the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the recent BBC series that has made a heart-throb out of Benedict Cumberbatch, the sleuth has been much a part of the British and global cultural legacy from the moment of his first appearance in 1887.
The contributors to this book discuss the ways in which various fan cultures have sprung up around the stories and how they have proved to be a strong cultural paradigm for the ways in which these phenomena function in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Essays explore the numerous adaptations, rewritings, rip-offs, role-playing, wiki and crowd sourced texts, virtual realities and faux scholarship Sherlock Holmes has inspired. Though fervid fan behaviour is often mis-characterized as a modern phenomenon, the historical roots of fan manifestation that have been largely forgotten are revived in this thrilling book.
Complete with interviews with writers who have famously brought the character of Holmes back to life, the collection benefits from the vast knowledge of its contributors, including academics who teach in the field, archivists and a number of writers who have been involved in the enactment of Holmes stories on stage, screen and radio. The release of Fan Phenomena: Sherlock Holmes coincides with Holmes's 160th birthday, so it is no mystery that it will make a welcome addition to the burgeoning scholarship on this timeless detective.
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Watchmen
\"Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, the Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the superhero is dissected as an unknown assassin stalks the erstwhile heroes.\"--Publisher.
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Hero Me Not
First introduced in the pages of X-Men , Storm is
probably the most recognized Black female superhero. She is also
one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel Universe, with
abilities that allow her to control the weather itself. Yet that
power is almost always deployed in the service of White characters,
and Storm is rarely treated as an authority figure. Hero Me
Not offers an in-depth look at this fascinating yet often
frustrating character through all her manifestations in comics,
animation, and films. Chesya Burke examines the coding of Storm as
racially \"exotic,\" an African woman who nonetheless has bright
white hair and blue eyes and was portrayed onscreen by biracial
actresses Halle Berry and Alexandra Shipp. She shows how Storm,
created by White writers and artists, was an amalgam of various
Black stereotypes, from the Mammy and the Jezebel to the Magical
Negro, resulting in a new stereotype she terms the Negro Spiritual
Woman. With chapters focusing on the history, transmedia
representation, and racial politics of Storm, Burke offers a very
personal account of what it means to be a Black female comics fan
searching popular culture for positive images of powerful women who
look like you.
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