The answer is obvious, and what better way to get started than with The Best of Bizarro, Volume II? And, as the title plainly states, it's twice as loud as those other crummy cartoon anthologies!
A feeling has been tearing up the underground of the fiction world. It's a nightmare reflection of the society you inhabit, a surreal explosion of pop, punk, and the post-apocalypse. Over the last decade, Bizarro Fiction has changed the definition of avant garde, it's abolished the traditional prose of yesterday and established a new precedent for awesome. Collected in this anthology is some of the best weird fiction from the past decade. Award-winning writers, cult prodigies and burgeoning talents all collected together in one place. This is what you've done with the last ten years of your life. With stories by: D. Harlan Wilson, Alissa Nutting, Joe R. Lansdale, Carlton Mellick III, Kevin L. Donihe, Blake Butler, Ryan Boudinot, Vincent Sakowski, Cody Goodfellow, Amelia Gray, Robert Devereaux, Mykle Hansen, Athena Villaverde, Matthew Revert, Garrett Cook, Roy Kesey, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Aimee Bender, Ian Watson & Roberto Quaglia, Jeremy C. Shipp, Andersen Prunty, Jedediah Berry, Andrea Kneeland, Kurt Dinan, David Agranoff, Ben Loory, Kris Saknussemm, Stephen Graham Jones, Bentley Little, David W. Barbee, and Tom Piccirilli.
Presenting a collection of super-hero-themed comics from the award-winning newspaper cartoon Bizarro. Cartoonist Dan Piraro skewers these masked and caped crime fighters like no other, poking fun at their super powers, superlatives, and their tights. Piraro's elaborate renderings often reveal the true identities of these heroes: Superman on the couch at home, the Hulk in his psychiatrist's office, Wolverine at the nail salon, and many more. Bizarro Heroes collects these smart, funny send-ups of all your favorite comic heroes in one incredible volume. Bizarro was first syndicated in 1985 and since then has built a steady and loyal following in the United States and Canada, as well as parts of Europe, Asia and South America. Bizarro has won an unprecedented three consecutive "Best Cartoon Panel of the Year" awards from the National Cartoonists Society. In 2010, Dan Piraro was given their highest award, the Reuben, for "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year."
Cartoonist Dan Piraro's uniquely eccentric view of the world comes alive in these 31 original coloring book pages. His incredibly detailed art will captivate colorists with a taste for the offbeat.
Do you ever get the feeling that there's something odd going on? If so, then Dan Piraro is the cartoonist for you. The remarkable peculiarity of the world, the strange, the stranger, and the strangest -- all make appearances in Mondo Bizarro, Piraro's third collection of cartoons, which follows close on the heels of the successful Bizarro and Too Bizarro.
Boys 4-6 will love this action-packed Step into Reading leveled reader that features Superman, Batman, and the rest of the DC Super Friends in a high-flying adventure. The heroes have their hands full when Superman's oddball opposite Bizarro comes to Metropolis intent on becoming a hero. Will the Super Friends be able to help him before he causes more harm than good?
DAILY PLANET reporter LOIS LANE discovers that the evil LEX LUTHER has created his own super hero -- BIZARRO SUPERMAN! The confused creature captures LOIS and sets out on a path of destruction. The real MAN OF STEEL must stop the monster, before it destroys METROPOLIS in a warped pursuit of truth, justice, and the American way.