Collects Exiles (2001) #1-19. The original alternate-reality dimension-hoppers! Led by Blink, the fan-favorite character from the Age of Apocalypse, the Exiles were each plucked from different times and dimensions, brought together to fix the kinks in the chains of the Multiverse! Meet Nocturne, daughter of Nightcrawler and Scarlet Witch! Magnus, son of Magneto and Rogue! Thunderbird, transformed by Apocalypse into a powerhouse! Mimic, one of his planet’s greatest champions! And the shape-changing Morph! Together, they must travel from world to world, striving to put right the timelines — or risk seeing those realities blink out of existence! But not everyone will survive their first mission! Who will live to visit far-out places from a Skrull-conquered Earth to Mojoworld and take on threats including Phoenix, the Hulk, Sentinels and Galactus? And what uncanny versions of your favorite heroes will join the Exiles?
"Six strangers, each an X-Man from a different reality-- brought together to ensure that life as we know it doesn't cease to exist! They have become unhinged from time. They are heroes from different realities whose own timelines have become compromised. The lives they once knew are gone. To return to their worlds, they must travel together from one alternate universe to another, each time, completing a mission to set right what went wrong. They have found love, experienced danger and formed friendships. Their lives are unpredicatble. No one can say where their next mission will take them. They are the Exiles, and this is their fate. Now, relive their quest to fix the kinks in the chains of reality, collected across six titanic trade paperbacks!" -- p. [4] of cover.
"Six strangers, each an X-Man from a different reality-- brought together to ensure that life as we know it doesn't cease to exist! They have become unhinged from time. They are heroes from different realities whose own timelines have become compromised. The lives they once knew are gone. To return to their worlds, they must travel together from one alternate universe to another, each time completing a mission to set right what went wrong. They have found love, experienced danger and formed friendships. Their lives are unpredictable. No one can say where their next mission will take them. They are the Exiles, and this is their fate. Now, relive their quest to fix the kinks in the chains of reality, collected across six titanic trade paperbacks!"--Publisher's web site
Six strangers, each an X-Man from a different reality-- brought together to ensure that life as we know it doesn't cease to exist! They have become unhinged from time. They are heroes from different realities whose own timelines have become compromised. The lives they once knew are gone. To return to their worlds, they must travel together from one alternate universe to another, each time, completing a mission to set right what went wrong. They have found love, experienced danger and formed friendships. Their lives are unpredicatble. No one can say where their next mission will take them. They are the Exiles, and this is their fate. Now, relive their quest to fix the kinks in the chains of reality, collected across six titanic trade paperbacks!
Marvel's melancholy muck-monster, by the man who knows him best! With the Nexus of All Realities as the ultimate staging post, prepare for the wildest journey of your life in this first volume of a complete collection of Steve Gerber's Man-Thing tales! Join the most startling swamp-creature of all in encounters with the Thing, sorcerers Dakimh and Jennifer Kale, and the most far-out fowl ever created, Howard the Duck! Plus: existential angst, clashes with the encroaching modern world, and the death of a clown! You won't be able to put this one down, but don't get scared, because whatever knows fear burns at the Man-Thing's touch! Collecting Astonishing Tales (1970) #12-13, Fear #11-19, Marvel Two-In-One #1 and Man-Thing (1974) #1-8. Plus, material from Savage Tales (1971) #1, Fear #10 and Monsters Unleashed #5.
The Exiles, including Rogue, Psylocke, Sabretooth, and Morph, take on new enemies as they get to know one another in a new world while Sage struggles with a psychic curse back at the Crystal Palace.
CONTENTS: The d'Artagnan Romances - The Three Musketeers - Twenty Years After - The Vicomte of Bragelonne Cycle des Valois - Marguerite de Valois - Chicot the Jester - The Forty-Five Guardsmen Cycle Memoires d’un Medecin - Joseph Balsamo - The Queen's Necklace - Ange Pitou - The Countess de Charny The Novels THE FENCING MASTER THE CONSPIRATORS GEORGES AMAURY THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO THE REGENT’S DAUGHTER THE CORSICAN BROTHERS THE CHEVALIER OF MAISON-ROUGE THE MARRIAGES OF PÈRE OLIFUS THE BLACK TULIP THE WOLF LEADER THE NEAPOLITAN LOVERS MONSIEUR DE CHAUVELIN’S WILL SOLANGE DELAPORTE’S LITTLE PRESENTS
Turning forty is less Witches of Eastwick and more Black Widow. Go figure. I've always known I was adopted. It never mattered much...until my birth mother died. I inherited a new power from the mysterious woman. But now she’s dead and I, despite the fact that I have exactly zero training, I’m the next time-traveling assassin. Don’t get excited. The job sounds glamorous, but it comes with a huge learning curve and plenty of mishaps. Then there’s having to actually assassinate people. That part sucks. It could be worse. I could still be working retail.
The wars of the twentieth century uprooted people on a previously unimaginable scale to the extent that being a refugee became an increasingly widespread experience. With the arrival of refugees, governments of host countries had to mediate between divided national populations: some wished to welcome those arriving in search of refuge; others preferred a strategy of exclusion or even expulsion. At the same time, refugees had to manage conflicts of the self as they responded to the loss of nationhood, families, socio-political networks, material goods, and arguably also a sense of belonging or home. While return migration was usually perceived by governments and refugees alike as the best solution to the dilemmas of forced displacement, consensus about the timing and dynamics of how this would actually occur was very difficult to achieve. In practice, the return of refugees to their countries of origin rarely, if ever, produced a wholly satisfactory outcome. Conflicts clearly resulted in forced displacement, but it is equally true that forced displacement created conflicts. The complex inter-relationship of conflict, return migration and the sometimes chimerical, but still compelling, search for a sense of home is the central preoccupation of the contributors to the two volumes of the Coming Home? series. Scholars from history, literature, cultural studies and sociology explore the tensions between nation-states and migrants as they have anticipated, implemented or challenged the process of return migration during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book begins with Western Europe and progresses to Central and Eastern Europe from the period of the Spanish Civil War to the Cold War era, whilst the second volume – Coming home? Vol. 2: Conflict and Postcolonial Return Migration in the Context of France and North Africa – shifts the focus to the colonial and post-colonial framework of the French-North African nexus. What emerges from the two volumes of essays is that, as ambiguous and sometimes ambivalent as home could appear, it was nonetheless central to migrants’ preoccupations about returning.
