Download or read book Lightning Noah the Next Superhero written by Bindu Mayi and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a superhero is wonderful! Being a superhero on a mission is even better, especially when that mission involves advocating environmentalism, reducing global warming, and avoiding the wrath of Thor in the bargain. When an ecofriendly dog collar leads to the discovery of a crime next door, twelve-year-old Noah does not hesitate to attempt a rescue mission. Unfortunately, Noah gets caught and it is now up to him to use his superpower - his ability to communicate with dogs - to set himself free. But will this new power hold up to the distraction of a cat, sway the criminal's dog, find a way to involve Thor, and grant him success in his first superhero adventure?
Download or read book Lightning Man 3 written by Noah F. Bunyan and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2014-11-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third edition of the Lightning Man series, Bob Spark and his dog Sparky discover there is more to the new vet than meets the eye! To defeat their latest foes, they must recruit a new teammate, Lightning Cat. Can they outwit the villain who turns friendly pets into vicious monsters? Read Lightning Man #3 to see if good prevails over evil. Working together the Lightning team overcomes evil villains to keep our world safe.
Download or read book Lightning Man 1 written by Noah F. Bunyan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Spark becomes superhero Lightning Man when he is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He learns to use his power to confront the villain who has wieldedthis weapon of massdestruction. Follow him and his dog Sparky, Lightning Dogthroughthe excitement and action toovercome evil. The exciting mix of super powers, interesting characters and battle scenes meld seamlessly with the well-made story line resulting in a unique comic book experience that kids and comic book aficionados will enjoy.
Download or read book Lightning Man 5 written by Noah F. Bunyan and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lightning Man #5 is the fifth installment of the dynamic children’s book series written and illustrated by young author Noah F. Bunyan. This time the villains of Noahville plan an exciting escape from Popatraz Prison. Lightning Man (aka Bob Spark, your everyday superhero), along with Lightning Dog and Lightning Cat must outsmart an angry bunch of criminals to save Noahville and the world from destruction. Can they succeed?
Download or read book Lightning Man and The Magic Gem written by Noah F. Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen year old Noah F Bunyan has done it again. This exciting sequel featuring Lightning Man, Lightning Dog, Lightning Cat, and a new superhero will keep you on the edge of your seat. Packed with adventure and suspense, the superheroes prevail over evil. This is the seventh book written by Noah. Noah would like to give a big shout out to Mrs. Angelia Hadley and her husband Rick for setting him up for a week in Yokosuka, Japan where he taught and inspired young writers. Noah would like to dedicate this book to the best dog in the world, Luna, his Lightning Dog (May 8, 2003 - March 2, 2016). Thank you, Luna, for blessing our lives with your companionship and love.
Download or read book Unstable Masks written by Sean Guynes and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contextualizes the history of race within comic books and the fundamental whiteness observed in American superhero narratives from the late 1930s to the present"--
Download or read book Lightning Man 2 written by Noah F. Bunyan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-12-28 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Spark becomes superhero Lightning Man when he is in the wrong place at the wrong time. He learns to use his power to confront the villain who has wielded this weapon of mass destruction. Follow him and his dog Sparky, Lightning Dog through the excitement and action to overcome evil. The exciting mix of super powers, interesting characters and battle scenes meld seamlessly with the well-made story line resulting in a unique comic book experience that kids and comic book aficionados will enjoy.
Download or read book Third Person written by Pat Harrigan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative strategies for vast fictional worlds across a variety of media, from World of Warcraft to The Wire. The ever-expanding capacities of computing offer new narrative possibilities for virtual worlds. Yet vast narratives—featuring an ongoing and intricately developed storyline, many characters, and multiple settings—did not originate with, and are not limited to, Massively Multiplayer Online Games. Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers, J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Marvel's Spiderman, and the complex stories of such television shows as Dr. Who, The Sopranos, and Lost all present vast fictional worlds. Third Person explores strategies of vast narrative across a variety of media, including video games, television, literature, comic books, tabletop games, and digital art. The contributors—media and television scholars, novelists, comic creators, game designers, and others—investigate such issues as continuity, canonicity, interactivity, fan fiction, technological innovation, and cross-media phenomena. Chapters examine a range of topics, including storytelling in a multiplayer environment; narrative techniques for a 3,000,000-page novel; continuity (or the impossibility of it) in Doctor Who; managing multiple intertwined narratives in superhero comics; the spatial experience of the Final Fantasy role-playing games; World of Warcraft adventure texts created by designers and fans; and the serial storytelling of The Wire. Taken together, the multidisciplinary conversations in Third Person, along with Harrigan and Wardrip-Fruin's earlier collections First Person and Second Person, offer essential insights into how fictions are constructed and maintained in very different forms of media at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Shaolin Brew written by Troy D. Smith and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero looks at how the comic book industry developed from a white perspective and how minority characters were and are viewed through a stereotypical white gaze. Further, the book explores how voices of color have launched a shift in the industry, taking nonwhite characters who were originally viewed through a white lens and situating them outside the framework of whiteness. The financial success of Blaxploitation and Kung Fu films in the early 1970s led to major comics publishers creating, for the first time, Black and Asian superhero characters who headlined their own comics. The introduction of Black and Asian main characters, who previously only served as guest stars or sidekicks, launched a new kind of engagement between comics companies and minority characters and readers. However, scripted as they were by white writers, these characters were mired in stereotypes. Author Troy D. Smith focuses on Asian, Black, and Latinx representation in the comic industry and how it has evolved over the years. Smith explores topics that include Orientalism, whitewashing, Black respectability politics, the model minority myth, and political controversies facing fandoms. In particular, Smith examines how fans take the superheroes they grew up with—such as Luke Cage, Black Lightning, and Shang Chi—and turn them into the characters they wished they had as children. Shaolin Brew delves into the efforts of fans of color who urged creators to make these characters more realistic. This refining process increased as more writers and artists of color broke into the industry, bringing their own perspectives to the characters. As many of these characters transitioned from page to screen, a new generation of writers, artists, and readers have cooperated to evolve one-dimensional stereotypes into multifaceted, dynamic heroes.
Download or read book Superhero Comics written by Chris Gavaler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Superhero Comics helps readers explore the most successful and familiar of comic book genres. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book reveals: ·The history of superhero comics-from mythic influences to 21st century evolutions ·Cultural contexts-from the formative politics of colonialism, eugenics, KKK vigilantism, and WWII fascism to the Cold War's transformative threat of mutually assured destruction to the on-going revolutions in African American and sexual representation ·Key texts-from the earliest pre-Comics-Code Superman and Batman to the latest post-Code Ms. Marvel and Black Panther ·Approaches to visual analysis-from layout norms to narrative structure to styles of abstraction
Download or read book Lightning Girl 2 Superhero Squad written by Alesha Dixon and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aurora Beam is finding this saving-the-world lark isn't all its cracked up to be. World-famous overnight after she foiled the Blackout Burglar's plot to steal a precious stone, she's living in the full glare of the media's flash bulbs: everyone wants a piece of the coolest new superhero in town. When she attends a global gathering of superheroes, will she find support from new friends who know exactly what she's going through? Or will there be rivalries and sabotage to deal with? And what on earth is Grandma Beam - who Aurora thought was running a home for retired alpacas deep in the countryside - doing turning up at this top-secret summit?
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Download or read book The Hero Next Door written by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From We Need Diverse Books, the organization behind Flying Lessons & Other Stories, comes another middle-grade short-story collection--this one focused on exploring acts of bravery--featuring some of the best own-voices children's authors, including R. J. Palacio (Wonder), Rita Williams-Garcia (One Crazy Summer), Linda Sue Park (A Long Walk to Water), and many more. Not all heroes wear capes. Some heroes teach martial arts. Others talk to ghosts. A few are inventors or soccer players. They're also sisters, neighbors, and friends. Because heroes come in many shapes and sizes. But they all have one thing in common: they make the world a better place. Published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books, this vibrant anthology features thirteen acclaimed authors whose powerful and diverse voices show how small acts of kindness can save the day. So pay attention, because a hero could be right beside you. Or maybe the hero is you. AUTHORS INCLUDE: William Alexander, Joseph Bruchac, Lamar Giles, Mike Jung, Hena Khan, Juana Medina, Ellen Oh, R. J. Palacio, Linda Sue Park and Anna Dobbin, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Ronald L. Smith, Rita Williams-Garcia, and short-story contest winner Suma Subramaniam “As with the two previous anthologies from We Need Diverse Books, this collection admirably succeeds in making available to all readers a wider and more representative range of American voices and protagonists.” —The Washington Post
Download or read book Super Hero Origin Stories written by Michael Robin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where did Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and their super hero friends come from? How did they get their powers? Who were they before they were super heroes? Each origin story is a thrilling, self-contained bedtime story. Baby Kal-El makes a dramatic escape from the planet Krypton, arriving on Earth in a rocket ship. Wonder Woman and Nubia are shaped out of clay by their mother Hippolyta, and given their powers by the gods. Each Green Lantern—Hal Jordan, John Stewart, and Jessica Cruz—came by their power rings in interesting ways. Young super heroes will love learning about how their favorite characters came to be.
Download or read book Panthers Hulks and Ironhearts written by Jeffrey A. Brown and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marvel is one of the hottest media companies in the world right now, and its beloved superheroes are all over film, television and comic books. Yet rather than simply cashing in on the popularity of iconic white male characters like Peter Parker, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, Marvel has consciously diversified its lineup of superheroes, courting controversy in the process. Panthers, Hulks, and Ironhearts offers the first comprehensive study of how Marvel has reimagined what a superhero might look like in the twenty-first century. It examines how they have revitalized older characters like Black Panther and Luke Cage, while creating new ones like Latina superhero Miss America. Furthermore, it considers the mixed fan responses to Marvel’s recasting of certain “legacy heroes,” including a Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel, a Korean-American Hulk, and a whole rainbow of multiverse Spidermen. If the superhero comic is a quintessentially American creation, then how might the increasing diversification of Marvel’s superhero lineup reveal a fundamental shift in our understanding of American identity? This timely study answers those questions and considers what Marvel’s comics, TV series, and films might teach us about stereotyping, Orientalism, repatriation, whitewashing, and identification.
Download or read book Baseball s Greatest Nicknames written by Thom Storden and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the greatest baseball players have earned funny, odd, or interesting nicknames during their careers. Read to find out the stories behind baseball's legendary nicknames.
Download or read book Incognegro written by Mat Johnson and published by Vertigo. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer Mat Johnson (HELLBLAZER: PAPA MIDNITE), winner of the prestigious Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction, constructs a fearless graphic novel that is both a page-turning mystery and a disturbing exploration of race and self-image in America, masterfully illustrated with rich period detail by Warren Pleece (THE INVISIBLES, HELLBLAZER). In the early 20th Century, when lynchings were commonplace throughout the American South, a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities. They were African-American men who, due to their light skin color, could pass among the white folks. They called this dangerous assignment going incognegro. Zane Pinchback, a reporter for the New York-based New Holland Herald, barely escapes with his life after his latest incognegro story goes bad. But when he returns to the sanctuary of Harlem, hes sent to investigate the arrest of his own brother, charged with the brutal murder of a white woman in Mississippi. With a lynch mob already swarming, Zane must stay incognegro long enough to uncover the truth behind the murder in order to save his brotherand himself. He finds that the answers are buried beneath layers of shifting identities, forbidden passions and secrets that run far deeper than skin color.
