Imagine your office, bitten by a radioactive spider.That's The Hero Business, a comic chronicling the day-to-day adventures of an agency that caters exclusively to superheroes (and their super-egos). In season three, all the power plays come crashing down! Can the staff put a pin in their personal problems long enough to defeat the final boss? This collection features eight storylines, guest comics, secret sketches and more!
A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and Chin-Kee, a personification of the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, who is ruining his cousin Danny's life with his yearly visits. Their lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action-packed modern fable. American Born Chinese is an amazing ride, all the way up to the astonishing climax. American Born Chinese is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature, the winner of the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New, an Eisner Award nominee for Best Coloring and a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. This title has Common Core Connections
On the night of the 1876 presidential election, a gang of counterfeiters attempted to steal the entombed embalmed body of Abraham Lincoln and hold it for ransom. Craughwell returns to this bizarre, and largely forgotten, event with the first book to place the grave robbery in historical context. This rousing story of hapless con men, intrepid federal agents, and ordinary Springfield citizens offers an unusual glimpse into late-nineteenth-century America.
There's one in every class: a joker with amazing gifts, but lacking the ambition to tap his true potential. One of Professor Charles Xavier's original students, Bobby Drake found out the hard way that he still had a lot to learn. But once he glimpsed the full extent of his mutant power to freeze water molecules, Iceman returned to the X-Men with evolution on his mind! What does it take for this jovial prankster to lose his cool? Contacted by a long-lost love, Iceman travels to Hong Kong to lend a hand -- but will the frozen funnyman get scorched by the artificially enhanced Augmen in the land of the rising sun? What does the mysterious Winterbrand Corporation want with Bobby and his ex-girlfriend, Opal? And what's her big secret, anyway?
Presents arguments for and against the existence of five notable cryptids and challenges the pseudoscience that furthers their legendary statuses, while providing an exploration of the nature and subculture of cryptozoology.