Download or read book Misfits Supermen written by Steve Starger and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bond of brotherhood is hard to break, but a lifetime of dealing with familial expectation, bitterness, and psychological disorders can bend and warp it into something nearly unrecognizable. This story tells the tale of two brothers: Melvyn, the elder, whose amalgamation of disorders leave him completely unable to function within society; and Stephen, the younger, whose own emotional and psychological issues are overshadowed to the point where he becomes little more than a pale and twisted reflection of his brother. On different ends of the same spectrum, Melvyn is blissfully unaware of their troubling connection (or so his brother can only assume), but for Stephen, it is undeniable. He lives with it every day, sensing his own otherness in every twitch, outburst, and inability of his brother to overcome his inner demons. Left largely on his own to deal with his peculiarities—while carrying the burden of being “the normal one,” of whom much is expected— Stephen begins a complicated and unpredictable journey, one which will take him as far from his brother as he can manage to get, even as it brings them inexorably closer. A portion of proceeds from this book will go toward the Camp Cuheca Scholarship — Melvyn D. Starger fund at Waterford Country School, Quaker Hill, CT., to help fund a two-week summer residency at the camp. For more information about Waterford Country School, please email www.waterfordcountryschool.org
Download or read book Bandits Misfits and Superheroes written by Josef Benson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American comics from the start have reflected the white supremacist culture out of which they arose. Superheroes and comic books in general are products of whiteness, and both signal and hide its presence. Even when comics creators and publishers sought to advance an antiracist agenda, their attempts were often undermined by a lack of awareness of their own whiteness and the ideological baggage that goes along with it. Even the most celebrated figures of the industry, such as Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Jack Jackson, William Gaines, Stan Lee, Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, and Frank Miller, have not been able to distance themselves from the problematic racism embedded in their narratives despite their intentions or explanations. Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels provides a sober assessment of these creators and their role in perpetuating racism throughout the history of comics. Josef Benson and Doug Singsen identify how whiteness has been defined, transformed, and occasionally undermined over the course of eighty years in comics and in many genres, including westerns, horror, crime, funny animal, underground comix, autobiography, literary fiction, and historical fiction. This exciting and groundbreaking book assesses industry giants, highlights some of the most important episodes in American comic book history, and demonstrates how they relate to one another and form a larger pattern, in unexpected and surprising ways.
Download or read book Superman and the Authority 2021 2 written by Grant Morrison and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clark Kent and Manchester Black continue to put Superman’s new team together, even though keeping Black in check seems like just as difficult a job as convincing the new recruits to come along. The pair hits different parts of the world looking for different types of heroes. While Midnighter, Apollo, and Natasha Irons only need to tie up some loose ends before getting on board, the Enchantress is going to be a little harder. Superman is going to have to set her free from a deadly illusion hell-bent on destroying her before she can help him save the universe.
Download or read book Living on a Thin Line written by Dave Davies and published by Headline. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies 'BOOK OF THE DAY' - Guardian 'This powerful tell-all from the Kinks guitarist puts the spotlight on his own bad behaviour, dalliances with the occult and his recovery from a stroke.' - Observer 'Heartfelt, hilarious, revealing, insightful and astonishingly candid. Boy, you really got me Dave. I can't wait to read it again.' - Mark Hamill Dave Davies is the co-founder and lead guitarist of epoch-defining band the Kinks, a group with fifty million record sales to their name. In his autobiography, Davies revisits the glory days of the band that spawned so much extraordinary music, and which had such a profound influence on bands from The Clash and Van Halen to Oasis and Blur. Full of tales of the tumultuous times and the ups-and-downs of his relationship with his brother Ray, along with encounters with the likes of John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix, this will be a glorious read for Kinks fans and anyone who wants to read about the heyday of rock 'n' roll.
Download or read book Tribute The Supermen Behind the Cape Christopher Reeve George Reeves Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster written by M.Anthony Gerardo and published by StormFront Entertainment. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siegel and Shuster created the first of the great comic book superheroes, and their square-jawed defender of justice has been personified by the esteemed actor George Reeves and the heroic in his own right Christopher Reeve. The stories of the men behind the cape give Superman his power.
Download or read book Superman The Man of Steel written by John and published by . This book was released on with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new reimagining of the life and times of the Man of Steel - the history of the Last Son of Krypton would never be the same!
Download or read book The Misfit Mission written by Scott Chrostek and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many church leaders and other people of faith feel constrained by time-worn strategies, tactics, and attitudes. Unwritten rules of how to do church seem to force us into neat and tidy patterns. But new ideas and methods are bubbling up in all corners of the Church, and new leaders are taking risks, creating opportunities, and rewriting their communities’ definition of church. One such leader is author Scott Chrostek. In The Misfit Mission, Chrostek describes what it looks like for us to do the right thing in ministry, even when logic or ‘rules’ say it’s the wrong thing. He shows how we really can do more than we might ask or imagine, when we remember God’s call and the promises of scripture—when we live each day with the expectation of holy surprise. Chrostek shares inspiring stories from all sorts of people, and often funny, poignant tales from his ministry as church planter and campus pastor of The Church of the Resurrection Downtown, in urban Kansas City. He illustrates how people can uncover their innate passion for knowing and serving Christ, and how a church can become an integral part of the community. The misfit mission is God’s own creative, surprising, crazy-beautiful way, and this book proves how we can be a part of it!
Download or read book Sink the Pink s Manifesto for Misfits written by Glyn Fussell and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An empowering, joyous and colourful guide to being a proud misfit, designed for and dedicated to anyone who doesn’t “fit in”. Don’t fit in? The Manifesto for Misfits will help you find your tribe and yourself. Join a brave and proud community of eccentrics, freaks, geeks, rebels and oddballs worldwide. Follow witty commandments, work through personal development exercises, take strength in stories of becoming, and learn to love who you really are. Filled with anecdotes, letters and opinionated thinkpieces from the Sink the Pink collective, queens, celebrities and fans including Sam Smith and Mel C from the Spice Girls, this title is the complete guide on how to be proudly yourself. Sink the Pink is the largest LGBTQ+ collective in the UK, continuously challenging the status quo and freedom of expression. Their events offer a portal to another world where anything is possible and everyone is welcome. Here, they put their message and experience into book form. Prepare to be fully immersed in joy, colour and love with this inclusive and perspective-shifting book: learn how to harness your uniqueness and remind yourself that you are not alone.
Download or read book Misfit written by Gary Gulman and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of my favorite books of all time.” ―Amy Schumer A tour de force of comedy and reflection about the perilous journey from kindergarten to twelfth grade and beyond―from the beloved stand-up comic and creator of The Great Depresh For years, Gary Gulman had been the comedian’s comedian, acclaimed for his delight in language and his bracing honesty. But after two stints in a psych ward, he found himself back in his mother’s house in Boston—living in his childhood bedroom at age forty-six, as he struggled to regain his mental health. That’s where Misfit begins. Then it goes way back. This is no ordinary book about growing older and growing up. Gulman has an astonishing memory and takes the reader through every year of his childhood education, with obsessively detailed stories that are in turn alarming and riotously funny. We meet Gulman’s family, neighbors, teachers, heroes, and antagonists, and get to know the young comedian-in-the-making who is his own worst―and most persistent―enemy. From failing to impress at grade school show-and-tell to literally fumbling at his first big football game―in settings that take us all the way from the local playground to the local mall, from Hebrew School to his best (and only) friend’s rec room, young Gary becomes a stand-in for everyone who grew up wondering if they would ever truly fit in. And that’s not all: the book is also chock-full of ‘80s nostalgia (Scented Markers, indifference to sunscreen, mall culture). Misfit is a book that only Gary Gulman could have written: a brilliant, witty, poignant, laugh-until-your-face-hurts memoir that speaks directly to the awkward child in us all.
Download or read book Boys of Steel written by Marc Tyler Nobleman and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two high school misfits in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent--meek, mild, and myopic--than his secret identity, Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure tales. Jerry wrote his own original stories and Joe illustrated them. In 1934, the summer they graduated from high school, they created a superhero who was everything they were not. It was four more years before they convinced a publisher to take a chance on their Man of Steel in a new format--the comic book. The author includes a provocative afterword about the long struggle Jerry and Joe had with DC Comics when the boys realized they had made a mistake in selling all rights to Superman for a mere $130.
Download or read book Misfit written by Jon Skovron and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A half-demon teenager learns the dangerous secret of her true powers in this “unusually profound urban-fantasy . . . thoughtful, scary and captivating” (Kirkus, starred review). Jael has always felt like a freak. She’s never kissed a boy, she never knew her mom, and her dad’s always been superstrict—but that’s probably because her mom was a demon, which makes Jael half demon and most definitely not a normal sophomore girl. But on her sixteenth birthday, a mysterious present unlocks her family’s dangerous history—and Jael’s untapped potential. What was merely an embarrassing secret suddenly becomes a terrifying reality. Jael must learn to master her demon side in order to take on a vindictive Duke of Hell, while also dealing with a twisted priest, best-friend drama, and a spacey blond skater boy who may have hidden depths.
Download or read book Superman written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 1751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DC Nation 2018 4 written by Various and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 21 days, one of these characters DIES! Plus: A feature on Heroes in Crisis with insights on post-traumatic stress syndrome from a prominent psychologist. An interview with Wonder WomanÔs new writer G. Willow Wilson. Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp discussing Green Lantern. Dan DiDio reveals the latest details on Sideways. A look at new developments in Justice League: Odyssey. A profile of Teen TitansÔ breakout star Crush. Comparing and contrasting Action Comics and Superman.
Download or read book Survival of the Misfit written by Rahul and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neel and Ram were more excited than ever to finally be in the medical college. However, they soon realized things weren’t as they had imagined. Nothing was like the previous 18 years of their existence, be it the food, language, climate, or the crowd. They were misfits. Enduring the ordeal of ragging was one of the many challenges they would face amidst exciting moments of a romantic flair(s). Will they be able to survive the cultural shock away from the comfort of their homes, or will they give up? Let’s sail with them through their unique and adventurous journey and find out what happens as they face their first year of hostel life.
Download or read book The Rise of Superman written by Steven Kotler and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how extreme athletes break the limits of ultimate human performance and what we can learn from their mastery of the state of consciousness known as "flow" In this groundbreaking book, New York Times-bestselling author Steven Kotler decodes the mystery of ultimate human performance. Drawing on over a decade of research and first-hand interviews with dozens of top action and adventure sports athletes such as big-wave legend Laird Hamilton, big-mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones, and skateboarding pioneer Danny Way, Kotler explores the frontier science of "flow," an optimal state of consciousness where we perform and feel our best. Building a bridge between the extreme and the mainstream, The Rise of Superman explains how these athletes are using flow to do the impossible and how we can use this information to radically accelerate our performance in our own lives. At its core, this is a book about profound possibility, what is actually possible for our species, and where--if anywhere--our limits lie.
Download or read book Orbit Siegel Shuster the creators of Superman written by and published by Bluewater Productions. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's sailed the seven seas and explored unknown lands, fought countless monsters and battled evil wizards, but Sinbad's newest adventure may be the greatest, and most dangerous, he's ever had! Read the entire "Ray Harryhausen Presents: Sinbad- Rogue of Mars" series in one place for the first time in this special collected edition!
