Download or read book Superhero Eric Saves the Day written by John M. Carpenter and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superhero Eric saves the day is designed and written by John Carpenter and Joyous Mortel.It is the forth book as part of the series Eric's Adventure.In this book you will see how Superhero Eric saved the day from Evil Ted.So guys, lets join and share all of Eric's fun, laughter and adventure.Enjoy reading !!!

Download or read book Fallen Superheroes written by Scott Allen Perry and published by Medallion Media Group. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using superheroes as the allegory, this colorful photo narrative explores the not-so-glamorous and sometimes dark realities of those who strive to live their dreams against all odds. The creators of Mime Very Own Book have reunited to pair trademark imagery with witty snippets to create a hilarious visual smorgasbord of real people and their quest to see themselves as more than they really are. From fast food to the simple pleasures of gardening, this lighthearted spoof reveals the superhero in all.

Download or read book The Dreamwalkers written by Melissa Myring and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alessandra Bravio is in way over her head. It is impossible to prepare for final exams when you wake every night covered in blood. She is a Dreamwalker, able to physically enter her dreams. Everything that she experiences while sleeping is real, from the handsome Richard Tallman to the nightmares that threaten to shred her limbs each night. There is something different about this Dreamwalker. The nightmares can sense it. Alessa could be the key that unlocks the door to their prison of dreams and unleashes them upon the waking world. Creatures of pure malevolence walk through the Dream, seeking to corrupt and feed in the terror of all who slumber. Darkness closes in on the Dreamwalkers. The First Nightmares have returned. And they want out.

Download or read book Enter the Superheroes written by Alex S. Romagnoli and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the first appearances of Superman and Batman in comic books of the late 1930s, superheroes have been a staple of the popular culture landscape. Though initially created for younger audiences, superhero characters have evolved over the years, becoming complex figures that appeal to more sophisticated readers. While superhero stories have grown ever more popular within broader society, however, comics and graphic novels have been largely ignored by the world of academia. In Enter the Superheroes:American Values, Culture, and the Canon of Superhero Literature, Alex S. Romagnoli and Gian S. Pagnucci arguethat superheroes merit serious study, both within the academy and beyond. By examining the kinds of graphic novels that are embraced by the academy, this book explains how superhero stories are just as significant. Structured around key themes within superhero literature, the book delves into the features that make superhero stories a unique genre. The book also draws upon examples in comics and other media to illustrate the sociohistorical importance of superheroes—from the interplay of fans and creators to unique narrative elements that are brought to their richest fulfillment within the world of superheroes. A list of noteworthy superhero texts that readers can look to for future study is also provided. In addition to exploring the important roles that superheroes play in children’s learning, the book also offers an excellent starting point for discussions of how literature is evolving and why it is necessary to expand the traditional realms of literary study. Enter the Superheroes will be of particular interest to English and composition teachers but also to scholars of popular culture and fans of superhero and comic book literature.

Download or read book Overliked written by Rob Singleton and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wall Street Journal and USA Bestseller How to Connect with What’s Most Important in a Hyperconnected World Social media has the power to do a lot of good, but it can also get in the way of authenticity and create a sense of disillusionment. In Overliked, pastor and author Rob Singleton asks readers to take a closer look at the optics in their lives and in the world around them. This is a book about understanding how to see “likes” and “selfie” culture for what they really are and how to connect with the heart of God to build out a new way of thinking about social image. We have technology and social tools all at our disposal, but when we recognize that so many in our culture now look for acceptance in how they’re perceived, feel pressure to project something about themselves that isn’t true, or take action based on facts that have been spun, that’s a problem that runs deep. Singleton shows readers how to find their way through the complexities by pointing them to God, who created truth, genuine love, and meaningful relationships. Written for those who believe—for this generation and the next—that they need to get a better handle on what’s real in this culture and in the lives of those they care about, this book brings authenticity and hope to the center of it all. Singleton offers powerful insights into how we can better leverage the information in the world around us without losing who we are. When we begin to see the real us behind the avatars, we gain the clarity we need to live better, love bigger, and become who we were always meant to be.

Download or read book The Unbalancing Act written by Kristen Lynn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mommy's in the psych ward. Vada Bower, stay-at-home mother of three is living the suburban dream. While this mom-blogger and minivan princess may appear to have it all together, her hilarious F-bomb ridden internal dialogue tells a completely different story. Although her husband Eric is aware of her life long struggle with OCD, he begins to notice some behaviors that leave him very concerned about his wife's mental health. Overwhelmed and at her breaking point, Vada finds herself an inpatient in a mental hospital. As Vada gets to know some of her fellow patients, her maternal instinct takes over and she's back in her forever role of the caregiver. Will she ever be able to take herself off the back burner? Vada soon realizes she is in way over her head taking on the problems of her new found friends. But it's her own mental issues that end up backfiring in a way she never saw coming. BONUS MATERIAL: The Vada Diaries, Short Stories and Confessions of a Crazy Mother is included in this edition!!

Download or read book The Waterman Chronicles written by Patrick Harris and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faster than a bottlenose dolphin. More powerful than a raging typhoon. A blue blur arcing through the sky—it's Waterman! Harnessing the power of water and the strength of his allies, Waterman is the scourge of criminals and supervillains alike. But he's about to be put to the ultimate test: his hometown has become the battleground. A teenager turned superhero, Eric must fight the evil that has infiltrated Elko, Nevada—an evil that seeps into schools, homes, and even the government. Their malevolent agents are cold, calculating, and desperate to locate the ancient Aztec relic that gave Eric his powers. With the encouragement of his feisty sidekick Melissa, Eric dives headfirst into an epic battle between good and evil—a battle that has been five hundred years in the making.

Download or read book The Mythology of the Superhero written by Andrew R. Bahlmann and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superheroes have been an integral part of popular society for decades and have given rise to a collective mythology familiar in popular culture worldwide. Though scholars and fans have recognized and commented on this mythology, its structure has gone largely unexplored. This book provides a model and lexicon for identifying the superhero mythos. The author examines the myth in several narratives--including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Green Arrow and Beowulf--and discusses such diverse characters as Batman, Wolverine, Invincible and John Constantine.

Download or read book Pepper Page Saves the Universe written by Landry Q. Walker and published by First Second. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landry Walker and Eric Jones' Pepper Page Saves the Universe is a middle-grade futuristic superhero story about a shy comic book girl-geek becoming her own superhero inspiration! The year is 2421. Awkward and shy, Pepper buries herself in the universe of the classic fictional superhero Supernova to avoid dealing with the perils of the 9th grade. But then fate intervenes when Pepper encounters a strange cat named Mister McKittens and stumbles into a volatile science experiment run by a sinister substitute teacher named Doctor Killian. Pepper is flung into another dimension, bringing her face to face with an order of cosmic beings who declare her to be the steward of their great power, champion of harmony in the universe, protector of worlds present and past. Now, in the 21st Century, Pepper finds that she herself is the real Supernova. But as Pepper soon learns, escapist fantasy and reality are two very different things.

Download or read book Superhero Syndrome written by Paul Bailey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Superhero Syndrome' is a heroic romantic horror that is centered in Freeport, New York. A village on the south shore of Long Island. Robert Smith, a 27 year old man who works behind the customer service counter of a local grocery store 'Cheep prices' is immensely depressed of his life. Although he passionately hates his job, after 8 years he still could not find the motivation to get up, search for better opportunity, and leave. He was trapped, and he knew that he only had himself to blame. As a result it was a direct link to his failing love life, or more appropriate non existent. Robert's life changes when he meets Destiny Williams, a middle aged beautiful customer who unexpectedly shows interest in him beyond a friendship. Initially everything about her is perfect as he gets the privilege to know her more as a person. Finally a girlfriend in his life after over a year layoff. She was too good to be true until...the day they shared the ultimate moment of intimacy with each other. Instantly he became very ill, near to death. It took him a few days to recover, but when he did he realized that it was not just a simple recovery, it was much more. All of a sudden he now possessed a series of mysterious supernatural abilities that leads him to a new friend that becomes his biggest inspiration, and also him learning that Destiny is not a ordinary woman. While experimenting, and using his abilities for his own entertainment, Robert quickly learns that his gifts are not only for play when his youngest brother Carter is endangered, followed by a string of unfortunate events that ultimately hits the White House. Not only must he protect his family, but he also takes it upon himself to save America from an immoral Eric Webb aka Jinteen, the former defamed governor of New York State, who uses his empire of followers, 'Eye for an eye' to overthrow the United States government. Exploring Destiny's dark past Robert learns that he's part of an intricate love triangle, and it's up to him to determine the fate. In his journey to prevent 'Eye for an eye' from spreading across the globe Robert learns the hard way that "you can't be a superhero to others until you become a superhero to yourself'."

Download or read book Magic Capes Amazing Powers written by Eric Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help children discover positive answers to their question about the world by supporting safe superhero play.

Download or read book Mixed Race Superheroes written by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can also connote genetic superiority, exceptional beauty, and special potentiality. This ambivalence has found its way into superhero media, which runs the gamut from Ant-Man and the Wasp’s tragic mulatta villain Ghost to the cinematic depiction of Aquaman as a heroic “half-breed.” The essays in this collection contend with the multitude of ways that racial mixedness has been presented in superhero comics, films, television, and literature. They explore how superhero media positions mixed-race characters within a genre that has historically privileged racial purity and propagated images of white supremacy. The book considers such iconic heroes as Superman, Spider-Man, and The Hulk, alongside such lesser-studied characters as Valkyrie, Dr. Fate, and Steven Universe. Examining both literal and symbolic representations of racial mixing, this study interrogates how we might challenge and rewrite stereotypical narratives about mixed-race identity, both in superhero media and beyond.

Download or read book Recovering the Radical Promise of Superheroes written by Ellen Kirkpatrick and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superhero meaning making is a site of struggle. Superheroes (are thought to) trouble borders and normative ways of seeing and being in the world. Superhero narratives (are thought to) represent, and thereby inspire, alternative visions of the real world. The superhero genre is (thought to be) a repository for radical or progressive ideas. In the superhero world and beyond, much is made of the genre's utopian and dystopian landscapes, queer identity-play, and transforming bodies, but might it not be the case that the genre's overblown normative framing, or representation, serves to muzzle, rather than express, its protagonists' radical promise? Why, when set against otherwise unbounded, and often extreme, transformation-human to machine, human to animal, human to god-are certain categories seemingly untouchable? Why does this speculative genre routinely fail to fully speculate about other worlds and ways of being in those worlds? For all their nonconformity, superhero stories do not live up to the idea of a radical genre, in look, feel, or tone. The mainstream American superhero genre, and its surrounding discourses, tells and facilitates an astonishingly seamless tale of opposing ideologies. But how? Recovering the Radical Promise of Superheroes: Un/Making Worlds serves a speculative response, detailing not so much a hunt for genre meaning as a trip through a genre's meaningscape. Looking anew at superhero meaning-making practices allows a distinct way of thinking about and describing the creative, formal, and ideological conditions of the genre and its protagonists, one removed from corralling binaries, one foregrounding the idea of a synergy-often unseen, uneasy, and even hostile-between official and unofficial agents of superhero meaning and one reframing familiar questions: What kinds of meaning do superhero texts engender? How is this meaning made? By whom and under what conditions? What processes and practices inform, regulate, and extend superhero meaning? And finally, superhero narratives present a new question: How might we reimagine its agents, surfaces, and spaces? Centering the experiences and practices of excluded and marginalized superhero fans, Recovering the Radical Promise of Superheroes reveals that genre meaning is not lodged in one place or another, neither in its official creators or fans, nor in "black and white" conservatism or in a "rainbow" of progressive possibilities. Nor is it even located somewhere in the in-between; it is instead better conceived of as an antagonistic, in-process nexus of meaning undergirded by systems of power. Ellen Kirkpatrick, based in northern Ireland, is an activist-writer with a PhD in Cultural Studies. In her work, she writes about activism, pop culture, fan cultures, and the transformative power of storytelling. She has published work in a range of academic journals and media outlets and her writings and work can be found at The Break and on Twitter @elk_dash.

Download or read book World of Reading Spidey Saves the Day written by Disney Books and published by Marvel Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swing into adventure with Spidey as he faces the villains Doc Ock, Green Goblin, and Rhino! Get ready for some awesome, easy-to-read stories because it's Spidey time!

Download or read book Out of Balance written by Angela Lam Turpin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former stay-at-home wife and mother, Beverly Mael, turns her life upside down in Out of Balance, a hilarious new novel about bank shenanigans and underground cyber societies. Caught between her husband, the ultimate prankster, and her boss, the charmingly seductive President and CEO of Vine Valley Bank, Beverly struggles to keep her husbands secret and help her bosss blind ambition without losing her marriage or her job. Floundering through dictation during the day and falling asleep in her dinner at night, Beverly needs to get away from it all. But a surprise date turns sour when Beverly discovers her unemployed husband has developed a computer program that can change the worldfor better or worse. To complicate matters, the banks president keeps lavishing praise on Beverly, giving her the attention she desperately craves from home. Armed only with a gift for numbers and a steadfast faith in God, Beverly must stop her husbands pact with the cyber underworld and uncover the truth before its too late. Out of Balance was recently awarded the prestigious Editors Choice recognition for writing excellence from iUniverse. The book was also nominated for the 2012 Indie Excellence Award for Chick Lit.

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television 2d ed written by John Kenneth Muir and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-08-21 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a complete guide to over 50 years of superheroes on screen! This expanded and updated edition of the 2004 award-winning encyclopedia covers important developments in the popular genre; adds new shows such as Heroes and Zoom; includes the latest films featuring icons like Superman, Spiderman and Batman; and covers even more types of superheroes. Each entry includes a detailed history, cast and credits, episode and film descriptions, critical commentaries, and data on arch-villains, gadgets, comic-book origins and super powers, while placing each production into its historical context. Appendices list common superhero conventions and cliches; incarnations; memorable ad lines; and the best, worst, and most influential productions from 1951 to 2008.

Download or read book A Once Crowded Sky written by Tom King and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tom King's debut novel opens in an imaginative world of comic book superheroes struggling to take on normal lives after sacrificing their powers to save the world"--