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Superheroing has its privileges. People thank you for saving them, they adore you, and maybe even give you a key to the city. Then, there's the leniency of the local police force, perhaps a spotlight or a billboard entering town with your picture on it. But unless your superpower is from the A-list: flight, speed, or the ability to leap buildings here or there, chances are a below average superhero will get overlooked by the adoring public. Jack Carter is that below average superhero.
In 1997, the superhero movie was all but dead. The last Superman flick had been released a decade earlier to disastrous reviews and ticket sales. The most recent Batman film was a franchise-killing bomb. And an oft-promised Spider-Man feature was grounded. Yet a mere five years later this once-derided genre would be well on its way to world domination at the box office and even critical respectability. How did this happen? And why, two decades later, does the phenomenon show no sign of abating? Here, for the first time, is an extensively researched soup-to-nuts history of the superhero movie, from the first bargain-basement black-and-white serials to today's multiverse blockbusters. Chronicling eight decades of stops and starts, controversies and creators, good guys and bad guys--onscreen and off--this entertaining account explains how and why our entertainment universe came to be overpowered by costumed crimefighters and their nefarious counterparts.
Book eight in the Superhero Epic series. Estabon and Eduardo Ramirez enter the Vietnam War, seeing the ugly side of betrayal and hopelessness. Their pursuit for setting things right also forces them to lead a revolution and subsequent military takeover of South America. The advantage they held as brothers and being superhumans can be taken away by the slightest wrong move if they can't convince four-hundred million citizens the future of Earth is in their hands. They make the first move to start World War III; hoping to disable country ideologies and military forces from fighting the wrong people. The Eternal Champions, Five Ghosts, Guild without a Name and EFL superheroes team up to attack Apex, the capital of Australia; where half a million superhumans and Tantalumized androids defend a global energy field generator designed to kill all life by turning the planet surface into a burning inferno. The superheroes fight back as never before against a foe that is willing to take everyone to hell with them.
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Escape from BLOODSHOT ISLAND! Live. Die. Rejuvenate. Each day, Bloodshot and his fellow castaways from Project Rising Spirit awake to find themselves hunted by the unstoppable engine of destruction called Deathmate. And each day, they die...only to begin their escape once more after the nano-technology inside them repairs their fatal injuries. As Bloodshot and his new teammates begin to understand the brutal logic behind their island prison, will the biggest threat to their survival be the horrors that await in the jungle around them...or each other? New York Times best-selling writer Jeff Lemire (Old Man Logan) and superstar artist Mico Suayan (BLOODSHOT REBORN) lead the hunt for the secrets behind Bloodshot?s past and future here in the next unstoppable chapter of the summer?s electrifying Valiant blockbuster!
Faith vs. ?THE FAITHLESS? ? The final battle! Framed for a crime, held prisoner by a team of her greatest enemies, and quickly running out of time, Faith must confront the truth of her first true defeat! But has victory truly come to The Faithless ? a revenge-obsessed squad of malicious malcontents ? or will Los Angeles? soaring protector give them a run for their money first? From the Hollywood Hills to the Santa Monica Pier, L.A. is about to witness the ultimate beat-down between good and evil?and when the final page arrives, you?ll be saying, ?What the frack?!?
This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups. Specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the Connections Festival 2012 involving 200 schools and youth theatre groups across the UK and Ireland, each play is accompanied by production notes and exercises. Power struggles, rites of passage, love and forbidden relationships are some of the rich themes that run through the 2012 cycle of plays. Some are deeply funny, some are provocative and some reflective; and one has really catchy songs! For the 2012 Festival, the anthology has an international feel and offers a window on the world. It includes from Australia a play based on a nineteenth century court case in which a teenage girl was falsely convicted; from Brazil a drama about young lovers doomed to tragedy; set in Russia, a play exploring differing attitudes to National Service and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991; a drama about students' rights to an education and the Cultural Revolution of 1966 in China; and a comedy involving a group of Irish country girls travelling to London to audition for the X-Factor.
A romantic and legal tragedy giving a new name to the phrase - good versus evil. Richard, known as Creator and leader of the Eternal Champions, finds himself in the middle of an evil plot to put him in prison with the murder trial of the century. His entire life is fixed on doing good and fighting for the helpless, but he becomes one of the helpless and has to completely put his trust in his friends and the legal system. It's a battle of wits verses public opinion, but what no one expects is Richard's resolve to outweigh the scales of justice, even though the people he fights for label him a murderer. To make things worse, Mentalists under the rule of Michael, the Arch Magi of the Magistrate, use their illusion powers to kill citizens in the streets terrorizing the country making law enforcement take drastic measures to stop the criminals with their own telepathic army. Jared once thought as a friendly superhuman secret agent working for the government is exposed as the mastermind behind Richard's plight and the Magistrate's only link to their criminal activities. But the mystery of Jared's past allows him to go into hiding and ruthlessly execute his ultimately destructive operation. Jean, Director of the Counter Espionage Agency, runs off with Jared in a leap of faith to see a better future. Richard and Elizabeth learn about the destructive plots to kill them or at the very least disband their superhero group, authorized by Jean and executed by Jared. The hunt is on as heroes and villains abrasively turnover every rock for Jared and Jean's heads on a platter. However, Jared's plan and desire for revenge against Michael and the Magistrate gives his family a new future and the beginning of salvation for everyone on the planet. The superheroes find their prey, but Richard and the Eternal Champions are forced to decide between justice and what is best for all, even if it means some criminals go free.
Last hope. Last stand. In the wake of Livewire?s stunning sacri?ce, how will X-O Manowar, Ninjak, and the Eternal Warrior comes to terms? With a punishing revenge mission led by Bloodshot, that?s how! If it bleeds, they can kill it?and the leaner, meaner Unity team just became a living, breathing box of armor-piercing rounds. The Armor Hunters put Earth in their bullseye? Now, the bullseye bites back!