Download or read book Kismet Man of Fate written by A. David Lewis and published by Wave Blue World Incorporated. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Punching Nazis used to be more than a meme. In 1944, it was a vocation. And no one put his gloved fist in the faces of more fascists than the Man of Fate, the Algerian Operative, our man in Occupied France -- Kismet. Then, he disappeared. Gone without a trace ... until now. Back from beyond, Kismet finds a new world of gay rights, quantum physics, and computer technology along with the old evils of bigotry, greed, and ignorance at a crossroads. Twenty-first-century America needs more than a superhero. It needs an ally.

Download or read book Super Weird Heroes Preposterous But True written by Craig Yoe and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weirdness from A, Airmale, to Z, the Zebra! This large-format collection of complete comic stories follows the success of Super Weird Heroes: Outrageous But Real! With an all-new introduction by Kiss' Gene Simmons! Here’s a new tome crammed with OMG, WTH, and LOL bizarro heroes of the Golden Age. Eisner-winner Craig Yoe provides both witty and fascinating context to heroes like Mr. Whiskers (a young actor who dresses like an old geezer), Hip Knox (who has an eye-ball on his chest and what looks like a woo-woo on his belt), and Pat Parker War Nurse (who fights Nazis in a skimpy nurse/superhero costume)! Over 30 full comic stories in all!

Download or read book Muslim Superheroes written by A. David Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The roster of Muslim superheroes in the comic book medium has grown over the years, as has the complexity of their depictions. Muslim Superheroes tracks the initial absence, reluctant inclusion, tokenistic employment, and then nuanced scripting of Islamic protagonists in the American superhero comic book market and beyond. This scholarly anthology investigates the ways in which Muslim superhero characters fulfill, counter, or complicate Western stereotypes and navigate popular audience expectations globally, under the looming threat of Islamophobia. The contributors consider assumptions buried in the very notion of a character who is both a superhero and a Muslim with an interdisciplinary and international focus characteristic of both Islamic studies and comics studies scholarship. Muslim Superheroes investigates both intranational American racial formation and international American geopolitics, juxtaposed with social developments outside U.S. borders. Providing unprecedented depth to the study of Muslim superheroes, this collection analyzes, through a series of close readings and comparative studies, how Muslim and non-Muslim comics creators and critics have produced, reproduced, and represented different conceptions of Islam and Muslimness embodied in the genre characters.

Download or read book Kismet written by Luke Tredget and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Mirror meets Bridget Jones in this whip-smart debut set in a world where the ultimate matchmaking app has redefined romance. Twenty-nine-year-old Anna is smart, vivacious, and in the midst of a complete existential meltdown. Sure, from the outside everything in her life seems to be going just fine: She has a decent job, a devoted BFF, and a lovely boyfriend named Pete with whom she is exactly 70% compatible, according to Kismet, the matchmaking app that everyone in Anna's world uses to find love. Still . . . isn't there supposed to be more to life than this? Should she settle for a secure and predictable existence with Pete, or risk everything for a life of passion and adventure? With true adulthood (the dreaded thirty) just weeks away, Anna secretly re-joins Kismet, and soon encounters Geoff, a dashing, forty-something journalist with whom she has a shockingly high compatibility score of 81. How can she not at least see where this goes . . . ? A funny and propulsive love story for our over-networked age, Kismet challenges us to take stock of how technology shapes our desires and what it means to "settle."

Download or read book Kismet written by Monica Burns and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in a brothel, Allegra Synnford quickly learned that survival meant taking charge of her destiny. Now, as a renowned courtesan skilled in the pleasures of the flesh, she chooses her lovers carefully-vowing never to be vulnerable to any one man. Until a mesmerizing, enigmatic Sheikh strips that control from her...

Download or read book Comic Books and American Cultural History written by Matthew Pustz and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original collection of essays, demonstrating how comic books can be used as primary sources in the teaching and understanding of American history.

Download or read book The Myth of the Superhero written by Marco Arnaudo and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated for the first time into English, The Myth of the Superhero looks beyond the cape, the mask, and the superpowers, presenting a serious study of the genre and its place in a broader cultural context.

Download or read book Broken Frontier Anthology written by Greg Pak and published by Wave Blue World Incorporated. This book was released on 2016 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This oversized hardcover is jam-packed with gorgeous artwork and captivating stories from today's heavy hitters in both mainstream and indie comics. Greg Pak and Tom Raney deliver a poignant tale of police officer returning to duty thanks to a

Download or read book Kismet or Karma written by Pooja Agrawal and published by AKS Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERTWINED TALE OF 4 INDIVIDUALS WILL IT BE KISMET OR KARMA THAT DICTATES THEIR FUTURE ___________ In this fast paced world various events catapult the lives of four individuals, intertwining them deeply. · Ansh finds a girl on an island in adverse conditions · Trisha is deeply infatuated with Rohan to the point of obsession · Maaya has a deep connection with Rohan as well as Ansh · Rohan, whom does he love. Is it Trisha or Maaya or someone else? Find out more about how their fate or actions drive their topsy-turvy lives in this story filled with thrilling plots. Experience how some decisions never give you a second chance and find out if their lives ever return to normal after facing abnormal events?

Download or read book Graven Images written by A. David Lewis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic books have increasingly become a vehicle for serious social commentary and, specifically, for innovative religious thought. Practitioners of both traditional religions and new religious movements have begun to employ comics as a missionary tool, while humanists and religious progressives use comics' unique fusion of text and image to criticize traditional theologies and to offer alternatives. Addressing the increasing fervor with which the public has come to view comics as an art form and Americans' fraught but passionate relationship with religion, Graven Images explores with real insight the roles of religion in comic books and graphic novels. In essays by scholars and comics creators, Graven Images observes the frequency with which religious material—in devout, educational, satirical, or critical contexts—occurs in both independent and mainstream comics. Contributors identify the unique advantages of the comics medium for religious messages; analyze how comics communicate such messages; place the religious messages contained in comic books in appropriate cultural, social, and historical frameworks; and articulate the significance of the innovative theologies being developed in comics.

Download or read book What is a Superhero written by Robin S. Rosenberg PhD and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's easy to name a superhero--Superman, Batman, Thor, Spiderman, the Green Lantern, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Rorschach, Wolverine--but it's not so easy to define what a superhero is. Buffy has superpowers, but she doesn't have a costume. Batman has a costume, but doesn't have superpowers. What is the role of power and superpower? And what are supervillains and why do we need them? In What is a Superhero?, psychologist Robin Rosenberg and comics scholar Peter Coogan explore this question from a variety of viewpoints, bringing together contributions from nineteen comic book experts--including both scholars in such fields as cultural studies, art, and psychology as well as leading comic book writers and editors. What emerges is a kaleidoscopic portrait of this most popular of pop-culture figures. Writer Jeph Loeb, for instance, sees the desire to make the world a better place as the driving force of the superhero. Jennifer K. Stuller argues that the female superhero inspires women to stand up, be strong, support others, and most important, to believe in themselves. More darkly, A. David Lewis sees the indestructible superhero as the ultimate embodiment of the American "denial of death," while writer Danny Fingeroth sees superheroes as embodying the best aspects of humankind, acting with a nobility of purpose that inspires us. Interestingly, Fingeroth also expands the definition of superhero so that it would include characters like John McClane of the Die Hard movies: "Once they dodge ridiculous quantities of machine gun bullets they're superheroes, cape or no cape." From summer blockbusters to best-selling graphic novels, the superhero is an integral part of our culture. What is a Superhero? not only illuminates this pop-culture figure, but also sheds much light on the fantasies and beliefs of the American people.

Download or read book Jess Nevins Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes written by Jess Nevins and published by High Rock Press. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique, one-volume encyclopedia contains entries on the more than 2000 superheroes, private eyes, cowboys, pilots, and adventure heroes who appeared in comics during the Golden Age (1935-1949) of superhero comics. Every heroic character from the Golden Age has been included; no one has been left out. Each entry contains a description of the hero, their significant villains, their creator credits, their first appearance, and their number of appearances in comics of the Golden Age. This collection is a one-of-a-kind compendium of superheroes that no fan of comics or superhero gaming should be without.

Download or read book Kismet written by Jo Patti and published by Imagine. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urgency and depth of encounter is a recurring theme in the poems of Jo Patti. Questions about loss, love and destiny are spiraled into a mosaic she creates consisting of passages from around the planet, some crystal clear and others enigmatic. Using diverse poetic forms she expands the boundaries of time, place, relationship, thought and spirit for whomever is bold enough to venture into unknown destinations.

Download or read book Some New Kind of Slaughter Or Lost in the Flood and how We Found Home Again written by Marvin Perry Mann and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kismet written by Raynesha Pittman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kismet is a predetermined or unavoidable destiny. It is not identical to Karma. With Karma, you get back what you dish out. Fate is not that friendly. Savannah James is a successful, revenge-seeking entrepreneur who hasn’t forgotten the feeling of growing up poor, or all the drama and hurt that came along with it. She plans the perfect plot to avenge her past, fueled by the "What goes around, comes around" theory also known as Karma. But what happens when you take Karma into your own hands and seek revenge by methods of sex, lies, deception and seduction? Fate steps in, knocks you off your high horse while your feet rest comfortably in the stirrups of satisfaction, and drags you back to the reality that you are not in control! Is it Karma or Kismet? You decide!

Download or read book A Date with Fate written by Tracy Ellen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Date with Fate is the roller coaster ride of a debut novel by Tracy Ellen, and the first volume in The Adventures of Anabel Axelrod ongoing series. Experience action, sex, romance, wit, mystery, mayhem, friends, family, fantasies, flashbacks, lots of laughter, and an "OMG!" cliffhanger ending -- all in one wild weekend!

Download or read book Fate in the Dungeon of Doom written by Peter Okonkwo and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FATE, IN THE DUNGEON OF DOOM, is a contemplative literary work on the kismet of the human person. It is a sort of an entreaty of a traumatized lad who has been thrust to throes in the underground prison of doom. It explains some sort of unknown facts about the orlay of a man, it answers the many chronic questions of the reality of a man's fate, with ideas susceptible to debate - if a man knows his destiny? - If fate itself is a stringent or a lenient spirit? - if fate's visitation would change the lifestyle of a man or cause him to die suddenly? - and how fate relates itself to the lifetime of a man. This book is made up of three sections: The Poems of Fate, The narrative and tragedic poems of Kwame, and other breathtaking poems.This collection has an intuitional interpretation of what a man's fate exhibit amidst impediments, endurance, abnegation, innocence, and most importantly, doom. It is a fatalistic poetry collection. *******RECOMMENDATIONS -"In his new collection of poems titled Fate, in the Dungeon of Doom, his follow-up to Ecstasy of the Dead, Peter Okonkwo oscillates between inspirational hope and clinical despondency, as he attempts to determine the nature of Fate, alternately referred to as kismet and destiny, and its function in a man's lives.Okonkwo in one instance consoles Fate as a partner to help us along life's journey...and in another instance, spurns him as a cruel trickster. He woos her as a would-be lover and then futilely pursues. Peter explains and asked gnarly questions on the true identity of a man's fate. Is kismet a place of our making or a destination? A question that vacillates my intuition, In the pages of Fate, in the Dungeon of Doom, the author presents fate as both a treasure to be attained and a curse that will destroy all.All this might tempt one to question Peter's sanity or at least his ability to illustrate the nature of a man's fate. But that would be missing the point...that within these pages, he is offering a sample of his pondering, inviting us to take a plunge into the ocean depths of his heart concerning a subject matter as evocative as that of the existence of God himself." FROM - "Kevin M. Kraft (Author of the DOBORO THE BOTTLENECKER book series, MOMO)."*********"Taking the themes and concepts he explored in his previous work, Ecstasy of the Dead, author Peter Okonkwo delivers another thoughtful, contemplative, and insightful collection of poetry and narrative verses. In many ways, Fate, in the Dungeon of Doom feels like a continuation of the author's earlier anthology, developing the narrative of Kwame's plight, and continuing his examination of a vast variety of ideas and issues through his raw, arresting writing.All at once, this anthology manages to be intellectually engaging, emotionally affecting, and sincerely thought-provoking. If you appreciate works that stimulate the mind and leave you mulling them over long after you've finished reading, you'll be sure to find enjoyment in this book. Much like his debut, Fate, in the Dungeon of Doom opens discussion on matters of the human psyche and the nature of Man's spirituality through the author's powerful words.Okonkwo is a smart and highly skilled young writer with a bright future ahead of him, and these two collections certainly illustrate his potential within this field. His voice is clear and insistent, and his passion for confronting and tackling any topic is very admirable. He is a talent to keep an eye on for sure" - FROM, "NIGHT TERROR NOVELS"