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| Author | : Grant Morrison |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 482 |
| Release | : 2011-07-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0679603468 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, and the X-Men—the list of names as familiar as our own. They are on our movie and television screens, in our videogames and in our dreams. But what are they trying to tell us? For Grant Morrison, one of the most acclaimed writers in the world of comics, these heroes are powerful archetypes who reflect and predict the course of human existence: Through them we tell the story of ourselves. In this exhilarating work of a lifetime, Morrison draws on art, archetypes, and their own astonishing journeys through this shadow universe to provide the first true history of our great modern myth: the superhero. Now with a new Afterword
| Author | : Warren Ellis |
| Publisher | : Avatar Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011-10-04 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 9781592911004 |
The last survivor’s tale of a global catastrophe, after scientists build god-like (and uncontrollable) superheroes. Praying to be saved by a man who can fly will get you killed! From the mind of Warren Ellis, the creator of TRANSMETROPOLITAN and PLANETARY, comes the most horrifying superhero graphic novel you will ever read! What if the arms race of global superpowers did not yield nuclear stockpiles, but rather messianic beings capable of wondrous miracles and – when needed – the ability to unleash the wrath of gods? But the scientists, generals, and politicians built super-humans to save the planet, no one ever imagined how their heroes would do it – or even if they’d want to. Behold the apocalyptic tomorrow, when supermen kill us all and end the world just because we wanted to be rescued by human-shaped things from beyond Science itself!
| Author | : Grant Morrison |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 477 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Science fiction comic books, strips, etc |
| ISBN | : 0099546671 |
Beginning with Schuster and Seigel's adolescent creation of Superman in 1938, Grant Morrison charts the history of the superheroes to their modern, multiplex incarnations.
| Author | : Maurice Cotterell |
| Publisher | : Thorsons Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
The ancient Mayan people predicted that the world will end in 2012 and believed that we are living in the fifth, and final, age of the Sun. These mysterious beliefs are now being backed up by modern scientific findings. But where did this "super-knowledge" come from? Cotterell has journeyed to Palenque, to the tomb of the Mayan priest-king Lord Pacal, to discover the answer. 50 color plates. 91 line drawings.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2011-06-24 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1118153472 |
Explore the philosophical depths of Batman, Superman, Captain America, and your other favorite superheroes Behind the cool costumes, special powers, and unflagging determination to fight evil you’ll find fascinating philosophical questions and concerns deep in the hearts and minds of your favorite comic book heroes. Why doesn't Batman just kill the Joker and end everyone's misery? Does Peter Parker have a good life? What can Iron Man teach us about the role of technology in society? Bringing together key chapters from books in the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, this free superhero sampler engages the intellectual might of big thinkers like Aristotle and Kant to answer these questions and many others, giving you new insights on everything from whether Superman is truly an American icon to whether Wolverine is the same person when he loses his memory. Features exclusive bonus content: all-new chapters on Captain America and Thor Gives you a sneak peek at upcoming books: Avengers and Philosophy, Spider-Man and Philosophy, and Superman and Philosophy Includes superheroes from both the DC and Marvel universes: the Avengers, Batman, Captain America, Green Lantern, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Superman, Thor, Watchmen, and the X-Men Gives you a perfect introduction to the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series (learn more at www.andphilosophy.com) FOR FREE! Whether you're looking for answers or looking for fun, this classic compilation will save the day by helping you gain a deeper appreciation of your favorite comics with an introduction to basic philosophical principles.
| Author | : Sean Howe |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 569 |
| Release | : 2013-10-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0062314696 |
The defining, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and dominant pop cultural entities in America’s history -- Marvel Comics – and the outsized personalities who made Marvel including Martin Goodman, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby. “Sean Howe’s history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking version of my favorite story, that of how a bunch of weirdoes changed the world…That it’s all true is just frosting on the cake.” —Jonathan Lethem For the first time, Marvel Comics tells the stories of the men who made Marvel: Martin Goodman, the self-made publisher who forayed into comics after a get-rich-quick tip in 1939, Stan Lee, the energetic editor who would shepherd the company through thick and thin for decades and Jack Kirby, the WWII veteran who would co-create Captain America in 1940 and, twenty years later, developed with Lee the bulk of the company’s marquee characters in a three-year frenzy. Incorporating more than one hundred original interviews with those who worked behind the scenes at Marvel over a seventy-year-span, Marvel Comics packs anecdotes and analysis into a gripping narrative of how a small group of people on the cusp of failure created one of the most enduring pop cultural forces in contemporary America.
| Author | : Rian Hughes |
| Publisher | : Abrams |
| Total Pages | : 1140 |
| Release | : 2020-11-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1647001196 |
A "massive work of dizzying originality" (Boston Globe), XX is an inventive and boldly designed science-fiction epic by acclaimed graphic designer Rian Hughes—now in paperback The battle for your mind has already begun. At Jodrell Bank Observatory in England, a radio telescope has detected a mysterious signal of extraterrestrial origin—a message that may be the first communication from an interstellar civilization. Has Humanity made first contact? Is the signal itself a form of alien life? Could it be a threat? If so, how will the people of Earth respond? Jack Fenwick, artificial intelligence expert, believes that he and his associates at tech start-up Intelligencia can interpret the message and find a way to step into the realm the signal encodes. What they find is a complex alien network beyond anything mankind has imagined. Drawing on Dada, punk, and the modernist movements of the 20th century, XX is assembled from redacted NASA reports, artwork, magazine articles, secret transcripts, and a novel within a novel. Deconstructing layout and language in order to explore how ideas propagate, acclaimed designer and artist Rian Hughes's debut novel presents a compelling vision of humanity's unique place in the universe, and a realistic depiction of what might happen in the wake of the biggest scientific discovery in human history. Propulsive and boldly designed, XX is a gripping, wildly imaginative, utterly original work.
| Author | : Grant Morrison |
| Publisher | : DC Comics |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2016-04-26 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : 140126963X |
In this acclaimed collaboration, iconic comic book creators Grant Morrison (MULTIVERSITY) and Mark Millar (THE AUTHORITY) conspire to put the Scarlet Speedster through the most grueling and life-changing challenges they can conjure up! First, the Flash must battle against every hero’s nightmare-a sentient super-costume that consumes the life force of anyone who wears it. Then, the Fastest Man Alive must find a way to counter his old foe the Mirror Master before everyone he cares about is reverse-aged out of existence. After that, Wally West barely has time to breathe before he’s forced to enter a race spanning all of time and space against an unbeatable opponent-with the loser’s world to be erased from existence! Of course, with friends like Jay Garrick, Max Mercury, and Jesse Quick by his side, the Keystone Comet can face down nearly any threat imaginable-but not even an entire team of speedsters can outrun death itself. And when the Black Flash comes for him, Wally will have to go deeper into the Speed Force than he’s ever dared-or lose everything he holds dear! Morrison and Millar are joined by artists Paul Ryan, John Nyberg, Ron Wagner, Pop Mhan and many more for a celebrated run with comics’ most celebrated runner in THE FLASH BY GRANT MORRISON & MARK MILLAR-collecting THE FLASH #130-141, GREEN LANTERN #96 and GREEN ARROW #130.
| Author | : Grant Morrison |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Comic books, strips, etc |
| ISBN | : |
For the world's strangest heroes, staving off the annihilation of free will or the reformatting of the universe into an artistic statement is all in a day's work -- not to mention the everyday assassination attempts and visits from Satan.
| Author | : Nick Harkaway |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 514 |
| Release | : 2008-09-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307270378 |
A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infused mission to save the world. “A flat-out ferociously good novel.... Reads like a surrealist smashup of Pynchon and Pratchett, Vonnegut and Heller.” —Austin Chronicle Gonzo Lubitch and his best friend have been inseparable since birth. They grew up together, they studied kung-fu together, they rebelled in college together, and they fought in the Go Away War together. Now, with the world in shambles and dark, nightmarish clouds billowing over the wastelands, they have been tapped for an incredibly perilous mission. But they quickly realize that this assignment is more complex than it seems, and before it is over they will have encountered everything from mimes, ninjas, and pirates to one ultra-sinister mastermind, whose only goal is world domination.
