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Black Lightning: Year One

Jen Van Meter
Black Lightning Year One Book PDF

Author : Jen Van Meter
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401283773

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Black Lightning: Year One by Jen Van Meter Pdf

Black Lightning begins! Get to know Jefferson Pierce, a.k.a. Black Lightning, before his starring turn in the CW’s Black Lightning TV show! It’s been years since Olympic gold medalist Jefferson Pierce ran from a past plagued by his father’s murder and a superhuman power he couldn’t understand. In that time, decay has transformed his home, Metropolis’ Southside, into the notorious “Suicide Slum.” Accompanied by his wife and daughter, Pierce returns to make a difference in his old community as the new principal of Garfield High School. But there’s a storm of lawlessness sweeping Southside, fueled by corrupt politician Tobias Whale, the mysterious Swann, and his criminal organization, the One Hundred. Strengthened by his family, old friends and a Man of Steel’s support, Jefferson Pierce must now harness the electrical powers he once feared to become a beacon of hope…and strike down crime as Black Lightning! Writer Jen Van Meter (JSA CLASSIFIED, Hopeless Savages) and artist Cully Hamner (BATMAN AND THE SIGNAL, RED) recharge the origin of DC Comics' most electrifying Justice Leaguer in this classic take! Collects #1-6.

Black Lightning

John Saul
Black Lightning Book PDF

Author : John Saul
Publisher : Bantam Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593037588

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Black Lightning

Tony Isabella
Black Lightning Book PDF

Author : Tony Isabella
Publisher : DC
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401269548

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Black Lightning by Tony Isabella Pdf

Black LightningÍs first solo series and origin story! With the power to generate electricity from within, Jefferson Pierce has donned a colorful costume and the secret identity of Black Lightning! However, it will take all of his abilities to protect his Metropolis neighborhood of Suicide Slum from those who seek to destroy it. With guest appearances by Superman and some familiar villains, Black Lightning makes DC Comics history. Collecting for the first time BLACK LIGHTNING #1-11 and WORLDÍS FINEST #260, featuring work by creators Tony Isabella and Trevor Von Eeden, along with veteran inkers Frank Springer and Vince Colletta!

Black Lightning

Roger Mais
Black Lightning Book PDF

Author : Roger Mais
Publisher : Peepal Tree PressLtd
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1845231015

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Black Lightning by Roger Mais Pdf

An iconic novel from a rebellious and politically active author, this story follows Jack, a sculptor and blacksmith, who idolizes the Biblical Samson as a figure of man’s independence. Deciding to carve a mahogany tribute to Samson, however, becomes a more complicated affair when Jack’s wife leaves him for another man. The end result is a sculpture of a blinded Samson leaning on a young boy for support. As life imitates art, Jack is struck by lightning and left blind, forcing him to rely on his friends to survive. After leading him on a journey to discover just how reliant on humanity he really is, Jack’s blindness ultimately drives him to his final act of independence: his own suicide.

Black Lightning: Brick City Blues

Tony Isabella
Black Lightning Brick City Blues Book PDF

Author : Tony Isabella
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401288006

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Black Lightning: Brick City Blues by Tony Isabella Pdf

The worldÕs a very different place from the one school teacher Jefferson Pierce once knew, and Black Lightning isnÕt the same hero he was. Older and wiser, Black Lightning resurfaces with a ferocious new look and a dangerous edge in a city desperately needing a hero. Collects Black Lightning #1-13 and a tale from DC Universe Holiday Bash #2.

Lightning

Dean Koontz
Lightning Book PDF

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440619885

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Lightning by Dean Koontz Pdf

#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz’s brilliantly thrilling novel of suspense. In the midst of a raging blizzard, lightning struck on the night Laura Shane was born. And a mysterious blond-haired stranger showed up just in time to save her from dying. Years later, in the wake of another storm, Laura will be saved again. For someone is watching over her. Is he the guardian angel he seems? The devil in disguise? Or the master of a haunting destiny beyond all time and space? “A gripping novel…fast-paced and satisfying.”—People

Black Lightning

John Saul
Black Lightning Book PDF

Author : John Saul
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307775061

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John Saul knows how to make the blood run cold and the heart race wild with fear. Now the author of the New York Times bestsellers Creature and The Homing delivers a chilling novel of a convicted serial killer sentenced to death—and hell-bent on revenge. For five years Seattle journalist Anne Jeffers has pursued the horrifying story of a sadistic serial killer’s bloody reign, capture, trial, and appeal—crusading to keep the wheels of justice churning toward the electric chair. Now the day of execution has come. A convicted killer will meet his end. Anne believes her long nightmare is over. But she’s dead wrong. . . . Within days, a similar murder stuns the city. As the butcher stalks his next victims, creeping ever closer to her, Anne is seized by an icy unease, a haunting sense of connection to these unspeakable crimes. And, relentlessly, she hears the eerie echo of the dead man’s last words to her: “Today won’t end it. How will you feel, Anne? When I’m dead, and it all starts again, how will you feel?” In Black Lightning, John Saul strikes with a novel as electrifying as a jagged bolt from a pitch-dark sky, proving once again his inimitable genius for suspense. Praise for Black Lightning “His most effective thriller to date . . . [a] compelling read.”—The Seattle Times “Electrifyingly scary.”—San Jose Mercury News “One of Saul’s best.”—Publishers Weekly

Third Person

Pat Harrigan,Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Third Person Book PDF

Author : Pat Harrigan,Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780262533799

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Third Person by Pat Harrigan,Noah Wardrip-Fruin Pdf

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.

The Flash Season Zero

Andrew Kreisberg
The Flash Season Zero Book PDF

Author : Andrew Kreisberg
Publisher : DC
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401262433

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The Flash Season Zero by Andrew Kreisberg Pdf

You’ve seen the hit TV show on The CW, but those episodes are only part of the story! Barry’s adventures continue in THE FLASH: SEASON ZERO, chronicling even more of the early adventures of the Flash and the crew at S.T.A.R. Labs. As Barry, Cisco, Caitlin and Dr. Wells study the scope of the Flash’s power, Barry must balance his regular life with his new role as Central City’s newest hero! With stories by The Flash executive producer Andrew Kreisberg and fellow writers behind the TV show, plus art from Phil Hester (GREEN ARROW), Marcus To (RED ROBIN) and others, these stories take you even deeper into the world of the hit series! This volume collects issues #1-24 of the digital series, including crossover appearances by Arrow’s Felicity Smoak and the Suicide Squad!

The Superhero Reader

Charles Hatfield,Jeet Heer,Kent Worcester
The Superhero Reader Book PDF

Author : Charles Hatfield,Jeet Heer,Kent Worcester
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781617038068

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The Superhero Reader by Charles Hatfield,Jeet Heer,Kent Worcester Pdf

A full exploration of the history, politics, and aesthetics of the superhero genre

All New, All Different?

Allan W. Austin,Patrick L. Hamilton
All New All Different Book PDF

Author : Allan W. Austin,Patrick L. Hamilton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781477318997

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All New, All Different? by Allan W. Austin,Patrick L. Hamilton Pdf

Winner, John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2019 MPCA/ACA Book Award, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association, 2020 Taking a multifaceted approach to attitudes toward race through popular culture and the American superhero, All New, All Different? explores a topic that until now has only received more discrete examination. Considering Marvel, DC, and lesser-known texts and heroes, this illuminating work charts eighty years of evolution in the portrayal of race in comics as well as in film and on television. Beginning with World War II, the authors trace the vexed depictions in early superhero stories, considering both Asian villains and nonwhite sidekicks. While the emergence of Black Panther, Black Lightning, Luke Cage, Storm, and other heroes in the 1960s and 1970s reflected a cultural revolution, the book reveals how nonwhite superheroes nonetheless remained grounded in outdated assumptions. Multiculturalism encouraged further diversity, with 1980s superteams, the minority-run company Milestone’s new characters in the 1990s, and the arrival of Ms. Marvel, a Pakistani-American heroine, and a new Latinx Spider-Man in the 2000s. Concluding with a discussion of contemporary efforts to make both a profit and a positive impact on society, All New, All Different? enriches our understanding of the complex issues of racial representation in American popular culture.

Black Lightning Vol. 2

Dennis O'Neil,Gerry Conway,Martin Pasko,J.M. DeMatteis
Black Lightning Vol 2 Book PDF

Author : Dennis O'Neil,Gerry Conway,Martin Pasko,J.M. DeMatteis
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401285944

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Black Lightning Vol. 2 by Dennis O'Neil,Gerry Conway,Martin Pasko,J.M. DeMatteis Pdf

Black Lightning teams up with the DC Universe’s greatest heroes! Jefferson Pierce has been successfully battling evil with his power over electricity as Black Lightning, and his heroic exploits have caught the attention of the Justice League of America. Now the World’s Greatest Superheroes want Black Lightning to join their ranks, but will he accept their invitation? Collecting for the first time ever all of Black Lighting’s major appearances after the end of his original series, featuring work by creators Dennis O’Neil, Gerry Conway, Dick Dillin and Frank McLaughlin. Collects DC COMICS PRESENTS #16, DETECTIVE COMICS #490-491, #494-495, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #173-174 and WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #256-259, #261.

Shaolin Brew

Troy D. Smith
Shaolin Brew Book PDF

Author : Troy D. Smith
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496851697

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Shaolin Brew by Troy D. Smith Pdf

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.

Toward a Counternarrative Theology of Race and Whiteness

Christopher M. Baker
Toward a Counternarrative Theology of Race and Whiteness Book PDF

Author : Christopher M. Baker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030993436

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Toward a Counternarrative Theology of Race and Whiteness by Christopher M. Baker Pdf

This book argues that “race” and “whiteness” are central to the construction of the modern world. Constructive Theology needs to take them seriously as primary theological problems. In doing so, Constructive Theology must fundamentally change its approach, and draw from the emerging field of Philosophy of Race. Christopher M. Baker develops a genealogy of race that understands “whiteness” as a kind secular soteriology, and develops a counternarrative theological method informed by resources from Philosophy of Race. He then deploys that method to read science fiction cinema and superhero stories as cultural, racial, and theological documents that can be critically engaged and redeployed as counternarratives to dominant racial narratives.

Why We Need Superheroes

Jeffrey Kahan
Why We Need Superheroes Book PDF

Author : Jeffrey Kahan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781476644974

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Why We Need Superheroes by Jeffrey Kahan Pdf

Comic books and superhero stories mirror essential societal values and beliefs. We can be Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, Black Panther or Rocket Raccoon through our everyday choices. We can't fly, fix hyper drives or hear human heartbeats a mile away, but we can think about what Matt Murdock would do in a conflict, how Superman would respond to natural disasters and how Captain America would handle humanitarian crises. This book analyzes the impact of dozens of comics by examining the noble personalities, traits and actions of the main characters. Chapters detail how superheroes, comic books and other pop culture phenomena offer more than pure entertainment, and how we can better model ourselves after our favorite heroes. Through our good deeds, quick thinking and positive choices, we can become more like superheroes than we ever imagined.