Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites
Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites

Author: Evan Dorkin

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Published: 2018-05-22

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1506706363

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Welcome to Burden Hill — a picturesque little town adorned with white picket fences and green, green grass, home to a unique team of paranormal investigators. Beneath this shiny exterior, Burden Hill harbors dark and sinister secrets, and it's up to a heroic gang of dogs — and one cat — to protect the town from the evil forces at work. These are the Beasts of Burden Hill — Pugs, Ace, Jack, Whitey, Red and the Orphan — whose early experiences with the paranormal (including a haunted doghouse, a witches' coven, and a pack of canine zombies) have led them to become members of the Wise Dog Society, official animal agents sworn to protect their town from evil. This turns out to be no easy task, as they soon encounter demonic cannibal frogs, tortured spirits, a secret rat society, and a bizarre and deadly resurrection in the Burden Hill cemetery — events which lead to fear and heartbreak as our four-legged heroes discover that the evil within Burden Hill is growing and on the move. Can our heroes overcome these supernatural menaces? Can evil be bested by a paranormal team that doesn't have hands? And even more importantly, will Pugs ever shut the hell up? Adventure, mystery, horror, and humor thrive on every page of Beasts of Burden — a comic-book series that will capture readers' hearts and haunt their dreams. Award-winning comics creators Evan Dorkin (Milk and Cheese) and Jill Thompson (Scary Godmother) first introduced these very special investigators in The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings and the other Dark Horse Book of . . . anthologies, for which they won coveted Eisner Awards for Best Short Story and Best Painter. Those first tales are collected here, along with the comic series Beasts of Burden issues #1–#4.

Hellboy/Beasts of Burden: Sacrifice
Hellboy/Beasts of Burden: Sacrifice

Author: Evan Dorkin

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)

Published: 2011-12-14

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13:

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The paranormal activity in the outwardly charming town of Burden Hill has gone from bad to worse, as seen in Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson's graphic novel _Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites_. Now the occult-investigating team of dogs (and one cat) needs some serious help. Contact with the Wise Dog Society has broken off, leaving the team on its own, as a series of unexplained animal slayings has begun. But magic can work in surprising ways, and help is brought to the team with the unexpected arrival of the world's greatest paranormal detective. Evan Dorkin (_Milk and Cheese_, _Bizarro World_) and Jill Thompson (_Scary Godmother_, _Magic Trixie_) join forces with Mike Mignola (_Hellboy_, _B.P.R.D._, _Witchfinder_, _Baltimore_) in an amazing one-shot bringing their supernatural worlds together! Mike Mignola's Hellboy joins the animals of Burden Hill!

Science Comics: Robots and Drones
Science Comics: Robots and Drones

Author: Mairghread Scott

Publisher: First Second

Published: 2018-03-27

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 1250309727

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In factories! In the sky! In your cars and phones! In your own home! Robots are everywhere! And they have been for a lot longer than you might realize. From tea-serving robots in feudal Japan to modern rovers exploring Mars, robots have been humanity's partners, helpers, and protectors for centuries! Join one of the world's earliest robots, a mechanical bird named Pouli, as he explores where robots came from, how they work, and where they’re going in this informative and hilarious new book! Ever dreamt of building your own best friend? It might be easier than you think! Every volume of Science Comics offers a complete introduction to a particular topic—dinosaurs, coral reefs, the solar system, volcanoes, bats, flying machines, and more. These gorgeously illustrated graphic novels offer wildly entertaining views of their subjects. Whether you're a fourth grader doing a natural science unit at school or a thirty year old with a secret passion for airplanes, these books are for you!

Beasts of Burden
Beasts of Burden

Author: Sunaura Taylor

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2017-03-07

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1620971291

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2018 American Book Award Winner A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation—and the debut of an important new social critic How much of what we understand of ourselves as “human” depends on our physical and mental abilities—how we move (or cannot move) in and interact with the world? And how much of our definition of “human” depends on its difference from “animal”? Drawing on her own experiences as a disabled person, a disability activist, and an animal advocate, author Sunaura Taylor persuades us to think deeply, and sometimes uncomfortably, about what divides the human from the animal, the disabled from the nondisabled—and what it might mean to break down those divisions, to claim the animal and the vulnerable in ourselves, in a process she calls “cripping animal ethics.” Beasts of Burden suggests that issues of disability and animal justice—which have heretofore primarily been presented in opposition—are in fact deeply entangled. Fusing philosophy, memoir, science, and the radical truths these disciplines can bring—whether about factory farming, disability oppression, or our assumptions of human superiority over animals—Taylor draws attention to new worlds of experience and empathy that can open up important avenues of solidarity across species and ability. Beasts of Burden is a wonderfully engaging and elegantly written work, both philosophical and personal, by a brilliant new voice.

Satoshi Kon's Opus
Satoshi Kon's Opus

Author: Satoshi Kon

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Published: 2014-12-09

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1630081582

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Brilliant anime director Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Paranoia Agent, Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, Perfect Blue) died tragically young in 2010 at the age of forty-six. But before he became a director, he was a manga artist, and Dark Horse is honored to remember Kon with the release of Satoshi Kon’s OPUS, an omnibus collection of a two-volume manga from 1996, created by Kon on the eve of his first film. OPUS contains the mastery of both realism and surrealism that would make Kon famous in Perfect Blue, as a manga artist planning a shocking surprise ending to his story gets literally pulled into his own work—to face for himself what he had planned for his characters! * Satoshi Kon was a Time magazine 2010 Person of the Year. * Kon was eulogized by director Darren Aronofsky. * Kon was a chief assistant to Katsuhiro Otomo on the Akiramanga.

Elephants and Ethics
Elephants and Ethics

Author: Christen M. Wemmer (Zoologe.)

Publisher:

Published: 2008-07-28

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13:

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"In Elephants and Ethics, Christen Wemmer and Catherine A. Christen assemble an international cohort of experts to review the history of human-elephant relations, discuss current issues of vital concern to elephant welfare, and assess the prospects for the ethical coexistence of both species."--Front flap.

Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan: Burne Hogarth's Lord of the Jungle
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan: Burne Hogarth's Lord of the Jungle

Author: Burne Hogarth

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Published: 2014-10-29

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1621159973

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One of the most influential and revered illustrators ever adapts two of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ most beloved Tarzan novels! Burne Hogarth’s color Tarzan of the Apes and black-and-white Jungle Tales of Tarzan graphic novels are finally collected into one deluxe hardcover. After his inspirational run drawing Tarzan Sunday newspaper strips and before his landmark instructional art books changed the industry forever, Burne Hogarth (Dynamic Anatomy, Dynamic Figure Drawing, and others) dazzled the world with these remarkably lively, complex, and faithful adaptations of Burroughs’ legendary lord of the jungle!

Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch
Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch

Author: Evan Dorkin

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1506714102

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This eight-time Eisner Award-winning comic book series blending fantasy and humor features the adventures of paranormal pets investigating the monsters of Burden Hill. The dogs and cats protecting Burden Hill from supernatural harm find themselves facing new threats and mysteries, including a vengeful demon, an invisible killer and an enigmatic flock of lost sheep. As a growing evil threatens to overwhelm their town, the animals find themselves some unlikely allies, most notably a seasoned paranormal investigator named...Hellboy. This volume collects the comic-book series Beasts of Burden: Sacrifice, Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch, Beasts of Burden: Hunters and Gatherers, Beasts of Burden: What the Cat Dragged In, and Beasts of Burden: The Presence of Others #1 and #2.

Utopia
Utopia

Author: Thomas More

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2019-04-08

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 8027303583

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Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.