The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-Baked Heroes by Jon Morris

By Jon Morris

You recognize approximately Batman, Superman, and Spiderman, yet have you ever heard of Doll guy, surgeon Hormone, or Spider Queen? within the League of Regrettable Superheroes, you’ll meet 100 of the strangest superheroes ever to determine print, entire with backstories, classic paintings, and colourful observation. So organize your self for such not-ready-for-prime-time heroes as Bee guy (Batman, yet with bees), the Clown (circus-themed crimebuster), the attention (a immense, floating eyeball; simply settle for it), and lots of different oddballs and oddities. Drawing at the complete heritage of the medium, The League of Regrettable Superheroes will entice die-hard comics enthusiasts, informal comics readers, and someone who enjoys peering into the stranger corners of father culture.

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Lucky Luke, tome 22 : Les Dalton dans le blizzard by Goscinny, Morris

By Goscinny, Morris

L'homme qui tire plus vite que son ombre Avec pour seul compagnon son cheval Jolly Jumper, "l'homme qui tire plus vite que son ombre" fait régner l'ordre et los angeles justice dans un Far-West de fantaisie mille fois plus vrai que le vrai. Poursuivant les terribles frères Dalton ou croisant l. a. direction de divers personnages historiques, fortunate Luke nous fait découvrir dans los angeles bonne humeur les dessous de los angeles conquête de l'Ouest.

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Lucky Luke, tome 26 : Les Dalton se rachètent by Goscinny

By Goscinny

L'homme qui tire plus vite que son ombreAvec pour seul compagnon son cheval Jolly Jumper, "l'homme qui tire plus vite que son ombre" fait régner l'ordre et l. a. justice dans un Far-West de fantaisie mille fois plus vrai que le vrai. Poursuivant les terribles frères Dalton ou croisant los angeles direction de divers personnages historiques, fortunate Luke nous fait découvrir dans l. a. bonne humeur les dessous de l. a. conquête de l'Ouest.

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Beautiful fighting girl by Saito Tamaki, Hiroki Azuma, J. Keith Vincent, Dawn Lawson

By Saito Tamaki, Hiroki Azuma, J. Keith Vincent, Dawn Lawson

From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of eastern anime and manga teem with prepubescent ladies toting lethal guns. occasionally openly sexual, constantly intensely lovable, the attractive combating woman has been either hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom of the objectification of younger girls in eastern society.
In Beautiful combating Girl, Saito Tamaki bargains a much more refined and convincing interpretation of this eye-catching and able determine. For Saito, the gorgeous struggling with woman is a posh sexual myth that mockingly lends truth to the fictitious areas she inhabits. As an item of wish for male otaku (obsessive enthusiasts of anime and manga), she saturates those worlds with which means whilst her fictional prestige calls for her ceaseless proliferation and copy. Rejecting simplistic moralizing, Saito is aware the otaku’s skill to eroticize or even fall in love with the gorgeous battling woman now not as an indication of immaturity or maladaptation yet due to a heightened sensitivity to the a number of layers of mediation and fictional context that represent lifestyles in our hypermediated world—a logical final result of the media they consume.
Featuring large interviews with jap and American otaku, a finished family tree of the gorgeous combating lady, and an research of the yank outsider artist Henry Darger, whose baroque mind's eye Saito sees as an incredible antecedent of otaku tradition, Beautiful struggling with Girl was once highly influential whilst first released in Japan, and it continues to be a key textual content within the examine of manga, anime, and otaku tradition. Now on hand in English for the 1st time, this publication will spark new debates in regards to the function performed through wish within the creation and intake of well known culture.

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The Blasphemer: A Novel by Nigel Farndale

By Nigel Farndale

On its strategy to the Gal?pagos Islands, a mild airplane ditches into the ocean. As water floods the cabin, zoologist Daniel Kennedy faces an im­possible choice—should he keep himself, or Nancy, the lady he loves and the mummy of his child?Back in London, Daniel can’t cease puzzling over the fellow he observed whereas swimming fourteen miles—on the verge of exhaustion and hypothermia—to succeed in the islands: a smiling determine treading water, urging him to swim quite a few strokes farther until eventually his foot touched sand. An adamant atheist, Daniel is bound it was once in simple terms a hallucination caused by his actual kingdom. Or used to be it? Meanwhile, in a parallel narrative, Daniel’s great-grandfather, Andrew Kennedy, faces mortal hazard in the course of the awful conflict of Passchendaele. yet what does the unraveling fact concerning the existence and dying of Andrew need to do with Daniel? As secrets and techniques are disclosed—from the diary of an army chaplain who knew Andrew and from the enigmatic scribbles on a musical ranking signed via Gustav Mahler—Daniel needs to confront the unbelievable, regardless of his atheism. In doing so, he's given one other fateful likelihood to turn out his unconditional like to his family.A literary mystery of infrequent intensity that sweeps from the morbid trenches of worldwide battle I to the terrorist-besieged streets of present-day London, The Blasphemer is ready one guy coming to grips along with his darkest instincts, his moments of betrayal, his surprising family members legacy, and eventually his determined wish for redemption and religion.

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