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Author: HowStuffWorks.com
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781492603177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPacked with quizzes, sidebars, trivia, and more, this book reveals the science behind your favourite superheroes and supervillains and their ultracool devices and weapons, as well as other awesome technologies from the science fiction realm.
Author: HowStuffWorks.com
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2013-07-09
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1402288514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCome meet some of the world's biggest superheroes and villains and discover whether you have what it takes to be one in this exciting, interactive ebook by the curious minds at HowStuffWorks. You picked out your superpower years ago. You can change into your costume in seconds. You could take out a Sith Lord with your lightning-quick lightsaber moves. Not so fast! Before you can start vanquishing bad guys, it's important to be schooled in the science of saving the world. In Lightsabers, Batmobiles, and Kryptonite, the team at Discovery's award-winning website HowStuffWorks.com reveals the science behind your favorite superheroes and supervillains and their ultracool devices and weapons, from Batmobiles and warp speed to lightsabers, Death Stars, and kryptonite. This interactive ebook also explores other cool technologies from the science fiction realm such as liquid body armor, replicants, and invisibility cloaks. Discover: How Batman and the Batmobile really work 10 Star Trek technologies that actually came true If warp speed and lightsabers can really exist Whether Superman would win against Harry Potter, Sith Lords, and even Chuck Norris! How new liquid body armor can make us superhuman And more! Packed with podcast clips, interactive quizzes, videos, photos, and trivia tidbits, Lightsabers, Batmobiles, and Kryptonite will prepare you to do battle with the world's most evil masterminds.
Author: Lois H. Gresh
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2007-08-15
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 0470250518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe truth about superpowers . . . science fact or science fiction? Superman, Batman, The X-Men, Flash, Spider Man . . . they protect us from evildoers, defend truth and justice, and, occasionally, save our planet from certain doom. Yet, how much do we understand about their powers? In this engaging yet serious work, Lois Gresh and Robert Weinberg attempt to answer that question once and for all. From X-ray vision to psychokinesis, invisibility to lightspeed locomotion, they take a hard, scientific look at the powers possessed by all of our most revered superheroes, and a few of the lesser ones, in an attempt to sort fact from fantasy. In the process, they unearth some shocking truths that will unsettle, alarm, and even terrify all but the most fiendish of supervillains.
Author: Kate Leth
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Published: 2015-08-19
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 1681596555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA traffic jam turns into a battlefield as Amie, Sandy, Kevin, and Silas fight together as a team for the first time!
Author: Tea Krulos
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1613747780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Watchman didn't arrive in a Batmobile but drove a tan, four-door Pontiac. He was in costume, of course—a trench coat, motorcycle gloves, army boots, a domino mask, and a red hooded sweatshirt emblazoned with a W logo. Journalist Tea Krulos had spoken to him over the phone but never face-to-mask. By the end of the interview, he wasn't sure if the Watchman was delightfully eccentric or completely crazy. But he was going to find out. Heroes in the Night traces Krulos's journey into the strange subculture of Real Life Superheroes, random citizens who have adopted comic book&–style personas and hit the streets to fight injustice. Some concentrate on humanitarian or activist missions—helping the homeless, gathering donations for food banks, or delivering toys to children—while others actively patrol their neighborhoods looking for crime to fight. By day, these modern Clark Kents work as dishwashers, pencil pushers, and executives in Fortune 500 companies. But by night, only the Shadow knows. Well, the Shadow and Tea Krulos. Through historical research, extensive interviews, and many long hours walking patrol in Brooklyn, Seattle, San Diego, Minneapolis, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Krulos discovered what being a RLSH is all about. He shares not only their shining, triumphant moments but some of their ill-advised, terrifying disasters as well. It's all part of the life of a superhero. As the Watchman explains, &“If everyone made little changes in what they did, gave a little more to charity, watched out for their neighbors, we wouldn't have the problems that we have.&”
Author: Zander Cannon
Publisher: Oni Press
Published: 2016-06-08
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring a prison-wide lockdown, Leader of the Nation of Mecha Mechazon writes an impassioned letter to convince his police officer sister that she’s working for an oppressive system, while the tension between the Humongo Brothers reaches the boiling point. Also: Gangland slayings! Rap battles! A hole in the head! And… Moon bunnies?
Author: Tillie Walden
Publisher: First Second
Published: 2018-10-02
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1250225973
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Tillie Walden is the future of comics, and On a Sunbeam is her best work yet. It’s a ‘space’ story unlike any you’ve ever read, with a rich, lived-in universe of complex characters.” —Brian K. Vaughan, Saga and Paper Girls Two timelines. Second chances. One love. A ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken structures to piece the past together. Two girls meet in boarding school and fall deeply in love—only to learn the pain of loss. With interwoven timelines and stunning art, award-winning graphic novelist Tillie Walden creates an inventive world, breathtaking romance, and an epic quest for love. LA Times Festival of Books 2018 Book Prize Winner, Graphic Novel/Comics A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 2018 One of The Washington Post's "10 Best Graphic Novels of 2018" A School Library Journal Best Book of 2018 A YALSA Top Ten Great Graphic Novel A 2019 Hugo Award Nominee, Best Graphic Story A Harvey Award Nominee, Book of the Year A Harvey Award Nominee, Best Children's or Young Adult Book
Author: Fred Patten
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Published: 2004-09-01
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1611725100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnime’s influence can be found in every corner of American media, from film and television to games and graphic arts. And Fred Patten is largely responsible. He was reading manga and watching anime before most of the current generation of fans was born. In fact, it was his active participation in fan clubs and his prolific magazine writing that helped create a market and build American anime fandom into the vibrant community it is today. Watching Anime, Reading Manga gathers together a quarter-century of Patten’s lucid observations on the business of anime, fandom, artists, Japanese society and the most influential titles. Illustrated with original fanzine covers and archival photos. Foreword by Carl Macek (Robotech). Fred Patten lives in Los Angeles. "Watching Anime, Reading Manga is a worthwhile addition to your library; it makes good bathroom browsing, cover-to-cover reading, and a worthwhile reference for writing or researching anime and manga, not to mention a window into the history of fandom in the United States." -- SF Site
Author: A. R. Moxon
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2020-12-01
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 1612198724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A modern-day classic."—Ron Charles, Washington Post “A spectacular invention.”—The New York Times "Compulsively readable."—NPR Things do not bode well for Father Julius. . . A street preacher decked out in denim robes and running shoes, Julius is a source of inspiration for a community that knows nothing of his scandalous origins. But when a nearby mental hospital releases its patients to run amok in his neighborhood, his trusted if bedraggled flock turns expectantly to Julius to find out what’s going on. Amid the descending chaos, Julius encounters a hospital escapee who babbles prophecies of doom, and the growing palpable sense of impending danger intensifies . . . as does the feeling that everyone may be relying on a street preacher just a little too much. Still, Julius decides he must confront the forces that threaten his congregation—including the peculiar followers of a religious cult, the mysterious men and women dressed all in red seen fleetingly amid the bedlam, and an enigmatic smoking figure who seems to know what’s going to happen just before it does. The Revisionaries is a wildly imaginative, masterfully rendered, and suspenseful tale that conjures the bold outlandish stylishness of Thomas Pynchon, Margaret Atwood, and Alan Moore—while being unlike anything that’s come before.
Author: Erin Twamley
Publisher: Wise Ink
Published: 2019-03-09
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781634891981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeep in space, on Mars, a robot rover searches for traces of water, one of the key things needed to support life. Back on Earth, Dr. Vandi Verma guides the robot, Curiosity, in its search. People all around the world were enchanted by animations like Princess and the Frog and Bravest Warriors, but before they ever hit the screen, Sonya Carey imagined and designed them. These are just some of the colorful careers of these Everyday Superheroes making the world a greener, healthier, and cleaner place.
