Author: Faith Erin Hicks
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1616556676
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Moving to a new school and making new friends will create anxiety for any teenage girl. But when you're Buffy Summers, a vampire slayer - the Chosen One (with all that entails) - building a new life can be overwhelming. A group of nerdy vampires, shunned by their cooler brethren, decide to climb the vampire social ladder by taking out the Slayer. They play on Buffy's insecurities, wearing her down until she is full-on distracted by the mental warfare. But in addition to her Watcher, Giles, this Slayer has a couple of new friends, Willow and Xander, to cheer her on.
Author: Various
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1630087262
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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For a Slayer, high school is hell! Buffy the Vampire Slayer is back in classic action in a tale set during her first year at Sunnydale High School! Burdened with the stress of a new school, making new friends, and sleepless nights spent slaying the undead, Buffy becomes the target of a group of nerdy vampires hoping to climb the vampire social ladder. * Eisner Award–winning author Faith Erin Hicks (The Adventures of Superhero Girl)! * Set during Season 1 of the television series. “They’re bringing the angst, the action, and the cool to Buffy the Vampire Slayer!”—Bleeding Cool
Author: Kel McDonald
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506703046
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Buffy struggles to deal with her mom Joyce's newfound interest in spending time with her. Balancing that with her schoolwork, her friends, and her regular vampire-slaying duties is a challenge. However, when Joyce becomes hypnotized by a child-like demon that craves motherly care, Buffy experiences a new kind of sibling rivalry - except in Buffy's case, her 'sibling' is actually a monster!
Author: Reginald Wiebe
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1648892663
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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Through each of its chapters, 'Polyptych: Adaptation, Television, and Comics' examines the complex dynamics of adapting serialized texts. The transmedial adaptation of collaborative and unstable texts does not lend itself to the same strategies as other, more static adaptations such as novels or plays. Building off the foundational work of Linda Hutcheon and Gérard Genette, Polyptych considers the analogy of adaptation as a palimpsest—a manuscript page that has been reused, leaving traces of the previous work behind—as needing to be reevaluated. A polyptych is a multi-panel artwork and provides a new model for analyzing how adaptation works when translating collaborative and unstable texts. Given that most television and comic books are episodic and serialized, and considering that both media are also the cumulative work of many artists, this book offers a series of distanced readings to reassess how adaptation works in this field. Comic book adaptations on television are plentiful and are nearly completely ignored in critical discussions of adaptation. This collection focuses on texts that fall outside the most common subjects of study among the corpus and contributes to expanding the field of inquiry. The book features texts that are subjects of previous academic interest, as well as studies of texts that have never before been critically considered. It also includes an appendix that provides the first list of comic book adaptations on North American television. 'Polyptych' is a unique and timely contribution to dynamic and growing fields of study. The book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of Comic Studies, Adaptation Studies, and Critical Media Studies more broadly, as well as to students undertaking courses on these subjects. It will also appeal to comic book and pop culture fans who wish to expand their knowledge on the subject.
Author: Joss Whedon
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1621150526
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Hundreds of years in the future, Manhattan has become a deadly slum, run by mutant crime-lords and disinterested cops. Stuck in the middle is a young girl who thought she had no future, but learns she has a great destiny. In a world so poisoned that it doesn't notice the monsters on its streets, how can a street kid like Fray unite a fallen city against a demonic plot to consume mankind? Joss Whedon, the celebrated creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, brings his vision to the future in this unique tale. As inventive in the comics medium as in that of television or film, Whedon spins a complex tale of a skilled thief coming of age without the help of friends or family, guided only by a demonic Watcher. * Joss Whedon, creator of Fray and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has been nominated for Nebula, Hugo and Emmy Awards as well as an Oscar!
Author: e. E Charlton-Trujillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763661198
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Angie overeats to cope with the taunts of the ultra-mean girls, her attempted suicide in front of a packed gym, and the status of her captured war-hero sister, until KC Romance comes to town and sees Angie for who she really is.
Author: Faith Erin Hicks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horror comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Author: Joss Whedon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dystopias
Languages : en
Pages :
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Hundreds of years in the future, Manhattan has become a deadly slum, run by mutant crime-lords and disinterested cops. Stuck in the middle is a young girl who thought she had no future, but learns she has a great destiny. In a world so poisoned that it doesn't notice the monsters on its streets, how can a street kid like Fray unite a fallen city against a demonic plot to consume mankind? Joss Whedon, the celebrated creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, brings his vision to the future in this unique tale. As inventive in the comics medium as in that of television of film, Whedon spins a complex tale of a skilled thief coming of age without the help of friends or family, guided only by a demonic Watcher.
Author: Prudence Shen
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 159643659X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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The unlikely friendship between basketball team captain Charlie and robotics club president Nate is challenged when Nate declares war on the cheerleaders over funding that will either pay for new uniforms or a robotics competition.
Author: Neil Googe
Publisher: 2000 AD
ISBN: 9781781085547
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind! When student Sam wakes up in the house of a group of obsessive sci-fi fans, she becomes their reluctant new housemate after their home gets transformed into a piece of misfiring trans-dimensional technology! Now they can travel to places where no 2-up 2-down terraced house has gone before. Armed only with their wits (and Star Wars trivia) the group of misfits must survive in whatever horrifying dimension or alternate reality they find themselves in! An affectionate parody of Sci-Fi and Fantasy tropes, this quirky comedy adventure features steampunks, Dark Lords, cuddly Lovecraftian horrors and the occasional dysfunctional lightsaber!
