SNAKEWOMAN Graphic Novel, Volume 1

SNAKEWOMAN Graphic Novel, Volume 1
Author: Zeb Wells
Publisher: Liquid Comics
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2014-12-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1626659346

Created by acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, (Elizabeth; Golden Age; Four Feathers). Born, 1981. First kiss, 1996. Graduated with honors, 2002. Moved to Los Angeles, 2006. Within three years, she will have killed 68 men. Jessica Peterson is learning first-hand that the cycle of revenge cannot be broken. Without understanding why, she finds herself turning into a creature - a vicious Snakewoman. Her mission - to avenge a centuries old wrong that was conceived half a world away, deep in the jungles of India. Terrified by her true nature and hunted by a mysterious organization known only as "The 68," Jessica must confront the monster that lurks inside her before it is too late.

SNAKEWOMAN Graphic Novel, Volume 2

SNAKEWOMAN Graphic Novel, Volume 2
Author: Zeb Wells
Publisher: Liquid Comics
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2014-12-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1626659354

Created by acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, (Elizabeth; Golden Age; Four Feathers). Jessica Peterson is hounded by 68 individuals, all reincarnations of the 18th Century British soldiers that killed her serpentine brethren. In this stand-alone one-shot (and perfect jumping on point!) we see the saga of the Snake Woman through one of their eyes. Mr. Robinson is trapped in the domestic cage he's created for himself. But when strange dreams of the Indian jungle begin to manifest themselves as dark impulses in his daily life, Mr. Robinson discovers his dark past, and embraces his murderous future!

SNAKEWOMAN, Issue 1

SNAKEWOMAN, Issue 1
Author: Zeb Wells
Publisher: Liquid Comics
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2014-12-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1624649041

Created by acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, (Elizabeth; Golden Age; Four Feathers). Born, 1981. First kiss, 1996. Graduated with honors, 2002. Moved to Los Angeles, 2006. Within three years, she will have killed 68 men. Jessica Peterson is learning first-hand that the cycle of revenge cannot be broken. Without understanding why, she finds herself turning into a creature - a vicious Snakewoman. Her mission - to avenge a centuries old wrong that was conceived half a world away, deep in the jungles of India. Terrified by her true nature and hunted by a mysterious organization known only as "The 68," Jessica must confront the monster that lurks inside her before it is too late.

The Historical Enigma of the Snake Woman from Antiquity to the 21st Century

The Historical Enigma of the Snake Woman from Antiquity to the 21st Century
Author: Angela Giallongo
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2018-06-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1527512134

This book provides an exploration of the historical conditions that gradually defined subordinating symbols and conflictual values in social relations between the sexes. It reveals how snakes and the gelid eyes of Medusa—the archetypical snake-woman—have reverberated across the visual arts and written sources throughout the ages in association with negative emotions: fear, anger, scorn and shame. The outcomes and implications of the disturbing correlation between the dangerous female gaze, the malignitas of the snake and the lethal power of menstruation that have been woven through the fabric of the Western imaginary are analysed here. This analysis reveals an intriguing history of female reptilian hybrids—from the pleasing Minoan snake goddesses to the depressing Gorgon, Echidna, Amazons, Eve, Melusine, Basilisk, Poison-Damsel, Catoblepas and Sadako/Samara—and gives the reader an opportunity to explore things that never happened but have always been.

Marvel Graphic Novels and Related Publications

Marvel Graphic Novels and Related Publications
Author: Robert G. Weiner
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2008-09-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786451157

This work provides an extensive guide for students, fans, and collectors of Marvel Comics. Focusing on Marvel's mainstream comics, the author provides a detailed description of each comic along with a bibliographic citation listing the publication's title, writers/artists, publisher, ISBN (if available), and a plot synopsis. One appendix provides a comprehensive alphabetical index of Marvel and Marvel-related publications to 2005, while two other appendices provide selected lists of Marvel-related game books and unpublished Marvel titles.

THE TALL TALES OF VISHNU SHARMA: PANCHATANTRA - VOL. 1

THE TALL TALES OF VISHNU SHARMA: PANCHATANTRA - VOL. 1
Author: Samit Basu
Publisher: Graphic India
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2014-01-12
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 981091959X

Collecting the miniseries by author Samit Basu (The GameWorld Trilogy, Turbulence, Resistance) and Ashish Padlekar (Walk-In). Some old stories never lose their bite... Something's invading the stories of our childhood, leaving death and oblivion in its wake. Now, a motley crew of animal heroes from ancient Indian fables must unite to survive. But first they must find the boy destined to save them, the chosen guardian of the Panchatantra. Thing is¡­ he has no idea they even exist. Vishnu Sharma, would-be boy hero, is too busy playing in online tournaments to care about fighting storybook wars. But when a none-too-fictional talking lion, monkey and bull arrive at his doorstep, Vishnu must choose between protecting the tales of the Panchatantra, or silently standing by as they disappear into storybook history. With naughty boy wizards, cuddly anime-sociopaths, and a not-so-frightful King of the Jungle.

Monstrous Women in Comics

Monstrous Women in Comics
Author: Samantha Langsdale
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2020-04-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1496827643

Contributions by Novia Shih-Shan Chen, Elizabeth Rae Coody, Keri Crist-Wagner, Sara Durazo-DeMoss, Charlotte Johanne Fabricius, Ayanni C. Hanna, Christina M. Knopf, Tomoko Kuribayashi, Samantha Langsdale, Jeannie Ludlow, Marcela Murillo, Sho Ogawa, Pauline J. Reynolds, Stefanie Snider, J. Richard Stevens, Justin Wigard, Daniel F. Yezbick, and Jing Zhang Monsters seem to be everywhere these days, in popular shows on television, in award-winning novels, and again and again in Hollywood blockbusters. They are figures that lurk in the margins and so, by contrast, help to illuminate the center—the embodiment of abnormality that summons the definition of normalcy by virtue of everything they are not. Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody’s edited volume explores the coding of woman as monstrous and how the monster as dangerously evocative of women/femininity/the female is exacerbated by the intersection of gender with sexuality, race, nationality, and disability. To analyze monstrous women is not only to examine comics, but also to witness how those constructions correspond to women’s real material experiences. Each section takes a critical look at the cultural context surrounding varied monstrous voices: embodiment, maternity, childhood, power, and performance. Featured are essays on such comics as Faith, Monstress, Bitch Planet, and Batgirl and such characters as Harley Quinn and Wonder Woman. This volume probes into the patriarchal contexts wherein men are assumed to be representative of the normative, universal subject, such that women frequently become monsters.

Shekhar Kapur's Devi

Shekhar Kapur's Devi
Author: Shekhar Kapur
Publisher: Virgin Comics Llc
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2007
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781934413067

Part human and part goddess, Devi must learn to wield her goddess powers so that she can save the world from Lord Bala's evil grip, as Lord Bala tries to obtain the Source--an ancient vessel of unimaginable power. Original.

Snakewoman of Little Egypt

Snakewoman of Little Egypt
Author: Robert Hellenga
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2010-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1608193233

Jackson Jones is trying to decide whether to remain an anthropology professor in his small Midwestern town, or to return to doing fieldwork among the Mbuti people, in their African Garden of Eden. His ruminations are interrupted by the arrival of a late friend's niece, who has just been sprung from jail. Sunny admits that she shot her husband, an evangelical pastor from the Little Egypt region of Illinois, but he had it coming after forcing her to take on a rattle snake. As an anthropologist, Jackson is curious about Sunny's experiences with The Church of the Burning Bush; as a man, he is not immune to her backwoods sassiness. Although Sunny is pleased to be with a kind partner at last, she is also serious about her belated education--funded by her late uncle--at Jackson's university. French and herpetology compete for her attention, and Jackson's plan to take her to Paris to propose marriage are waylaid when she decides to travel to an academic conference with her biology professor instead. Jackson is crushed and heads for Little Egypt in Sunny's absence, to get to know her ex-husband and to study the snake-handling ceremonies at his evangelical church. Complications ensue, including Jackson's near-death experience and Sunny's murder of her ex, but fate is a positive force for all in the end. Packed with both information and emotion, Snakewoman of Little Egypt delivers Robert Hellenga at the top of his form.

Early Years - The Night Shirt

Early Years - The Night Shirt
Author: Joann Sfar
Publisher: Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-12
Genre: Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
ISBN: 9781561639328

A darkly funny satire of fantasy that brings together the first two volumes of the Early Years, this collection relates the origins of the vast world of Dungeon. In this first story of the Early Years, the Keeper leaves his family to go find fortune in a time of chaos and darkness and becomes the Night Shirt--a misguided vigilante who renders justice nightly. In the second story, the Night Shirt stumbles upon Alexandra, the one he pines for, about to be raped and comes to her valiant and heroic rescue with romantic bravura. Perfect for lovers of heroic fantasy and dark humor, this two-volume set is the complete run of this subseries of Dungeon.