Author: Brenden Fletcher
Publisher: DC
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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As the 'Gotham Academy Yearbook' storyline comes to an end, Olive, Maps and the gang wrap up the year with stories that will reveal secrets about the Academy you won't want to miss!
Author: Brenden Fletcher
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN: 1401279465
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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The acclaimed creative team of Brenden Fletcher (BATGIRL), Becky Cloonan (Southern Cross) and Karl Kerschl (WEDNESDAY COMICS) are joined by artist Adam Archer (AME-COMI GIRLS) as classes begin and new mysteries unfold for the kids of Gotham Academy in GOTHAM ACADEMY: SECOND SEMESTER VOL. 1ÑWELCOME BACK! ItÕs the second semester at Gotham Academy, and everything is back to normal. Of course, ÒnormalÓ for GothamÕs top prep school would be considered uncontrollable weirdness anywhere else! First, a bunch of students start walking out of their extracurricular activities with no explanation and signing up for a strange new societyÑWitch Club! Then, a stolen map of the Academy puts the students on the trail of ancient symbols and hidden chambers. ThereÕs plenty for the Detective Club to investigateÑbut Olive Silverlock is distracted by her new rebel roommate, Amy. Is Maps Mizoguchi right to be suspicious of a bad influence, or just jealous that sheÕs losing her best friend? Plus, Detective Club is joined by the WorldÕs Greatest DetectiveÑBatman! Collects GOTHAM ACADEMY: SECOND SEMESTER 1-3, 5-8.
Author: Brenden Fletcher
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN: 1401273335
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES! A slew of comicsÕ top writers and artists pay tribute to the coolest school in the DC Universe as GOTHAM ACADEMY ends its first semester with a bang! They faced magic, monsters and mayhemÑalong with quizzes, crushes and dining-hall foodÑbut Olive, Maps and the rest of the Academy gang survived their first term at Gotham CityÕs most prestigious school. Now itÕs time to look back by putting together their yearbook. But it wouldnÕt be Gotham Academy if there werenÕt an all-new, untold adventure on every page! What happens when students sneak into a faculty party full of (mostly) reformed super-villains? What kind of trouble can kids get into at the mall when an elite assassin is their chaperone? And why is Robin, the Boy Wonder himself, interested in MapsÕ maps? In GOTHAM ACADEMY VOLUME 3: YEARBOOK, writer Brenden Fletcher (BLACK CANARY) and artist Adam Archer (Scribblenauts: Unmasked) lead an all-star team of killer creators including David Petersen (Mouse Guard), Michael Dialynas (The Woods), Hope Larson (BATGIRL), Katie Cook (My Little Pony), Derek Fridolfs and Dustin Nguyen (LIÕL GOTHAM), Faith Erin Hicks (The Adventures of Superhero Girl), James Tynion IV (BATMAN ETERNAL), Annie Wu (BLACK CANARY), Rafael Albuquerque (AMERICAN VAMPIRE), Steve Orlando (MIDNIGHTER) and more!
Author: Joshua Williamson
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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“Abyss” part two! For years Batman used the darkness as a weapon, but now a new enemy turns that darkness against him! Batman must team with Batman Inc.’s mysterious new benefactor to bring the deadly Abyss into the light! Wait…who is Batman Inc.’s new benefactor?
Author: Becky Cloonan
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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The Undoing are coming. Long past the Age of Heroes, few of Diana Prince’s friends survive, and most of her sisters have passed as well. As an immortal goddess, this is her lot. But then, a threat appears that even the mighty Darkseid can’t handle-and it’s up to Wonder Woman to take on the battle! It’s big action and high fantasy at the end of time, courtesy of Eisner Award-winning cartoonist Becky Cloonan (By Chance or Providence, Gotham Academy) and her Doom Patrol co-writer Michael W. Conrad, with the popular artist Jen Bartel (Blackbird) making her interior art debut for DC. Then, peer into a closer future as the original champion of Themyscira strikes out on her own. Things have not been stable on Paradise Island for some time, and Nubia has found a new home in Man’s World. Now, she is tasked with protecting it from the dangers of the world of myths and magic. The writer of DC’s Nubia: Real One, L.L. McKinney, takes this powerful Amazon to a whole new level.
Author: Karl Kerschl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986613159
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 119
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A dim-witted sasquatch bumbles his way into a series of woodland adventures in this award-winning comic series.
Author: Becky Cloonan
Publisher: DC Comics
ISBN: 1779526180
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Maps Mizoguchi is new to Gotham Academy, but she’s found the perfect mentor: Olive Silverlock (her brother’s ex, which isn’t awkward at all). Olive’s had some problems recently, but amnesia pales beside a school that’s haunted by ghosts, secret societies, and bats. How bad can it be, showing her ex’s kid sister the ropes? How about when another prominent member of Gotham’s elite shows up, and she has to deal with Damian Wayne? Becky Cloonan, Brenden Fletcher, and Karl Kerschl welcome you back to school in this volume that collects Gotham Academy #1-18 and Gotham Academy Annual #1!
Author: Scott T. Smith
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271086327
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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Superhero comics reckon with issues of corporeal control. And while they commonly deal in characters of exceptional or superhuman ability, they have also shown an increasing attention and sensitivity to diverse forms of disability, both physical and cognitive. The essays in this collection reveal how the superhero genre, in fusing fantasy with realism, provides a visual forum for engaging with issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality) and helps to imagine different ways of being in the world. Working from the premise that the theoretical mode of the uncanny, with its interest in what is simultaneously known and unknown, ordinary and extraordinary, opens new ways to think about categories and markers of identity, Uncanny Bodies explores how continuums of ability in superhero comics can reflect, resist, or reevaluate broader cultural conceptions about disability. The chapters focus on lesser-known characters—such as Echo, Omega the Unknown, and the Silver Scorpion—as well as the famous Barbara Gordon and the protagonist of the acclaimed series Hawkeye, whose superheroic uncanniness provides a counterpoint to constructs of normalcy. Several essays explore how superhero comics can provide a vocabulary and discourse for conceptualizing disability more broadly. Thoughtful and challenging, this eye-opening examination of superhero comics breaks new ground in disability studies and scholarship in popular culture. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Sarah Bowden, Charlie Christie, Sarah Gibbons, Andrew Godfrey-Meers, Marit Hanson, Charles Hatfield, Naja Later, Lauren O’Connor, Daniel J. O'Rourke, Daniel Pinti, Lauranne Poharec, and Deleasa Randall-Griffiths.
Author: Andrea Gabor
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 162097200X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 349
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“The education wars have been demoralizing for teachers. . . . After the Education Wars helps us to see a better way forward.” —Cathy N. Davidson, The New York Times Book Review “After the Education Wars is an important book that points the way to genuine reform.” —Diane Ravitch, author of Reign of Error and The Death and Life of the Great American School System A bestselling business journalist critiques the top-down approach of popular education reforms and profiles the unexpected success of schools embracing a nimbler, more democratic entrepreneurialism In an entirely fresh take on school reform, business journalist and bestselling author Andrea Gabor argues that Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other leaders of the prevailing education-reform movement have borrowed all the wrong lessons from the business world. After the Education Wars explains how the market-based measures and carrot-and-stick incentives informing today's reforms are out of sync with the nurturing culture that good schools foster and—contrary to popular belief—at odds with the best practices of thriving twenty-first-century companies as well. These rich, detailed stories of real reform in action illustrate how enduring change must be deeply collaborative and relentlessly focused on improvement from the grass roots up—lessons also learned from both the open-source software and quality movements. The good news is that solutions born of this philosophy are all around us: from Brockton, Massachusetts, where the state's once-failing largest high school now sends most graduates to college, to Leander, Texas, a large district where school improvement, spurred by the ideas of quality guru W. Edwards Deming, has become a way of life. A welcome exception to the doom-and-gloom canon of education reform, After the Education Wars makes clear that what's needed is not more grand ideas, but practical and informed ways to grow the best ones that are already transforming schools.
Author: Juan González
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620972867
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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How Bill de Blasio’s mayoral victory triggered a seismic shift in the nation’s urban political landscape—and what it portends for our cities in the future In November 2013, a little-known progressive stunned the elite of New York City by capturing the mayoralty by a landslide. Bill de Blasio's promise to end the "Tale of Two Cities" had struck a chord among ordinary residents still struggling to recover from the Great Recession. De Blasio's election heralded the advent of the most progressive New York City government in generations. Not since the legendary Fiorello La Guardia in the 1930s had so many populist candidates captured government office at the same time. Gotham, in other words, had been suddenly reclaimed in the name of its people. How did this happen? De Blasio's victory, journalist legend Juan González argues, was not just a routine change of government but a popular rebellion against corporate-friendly policies that had dominated New York for decades. Reflecting that broader change, liberal Democrats Bill Peduto in Pittsburgh, Betsy Hodges in Minneapolis, and Martin Walsh of Boston also won mayoral elections that same year, as did insurgent Ras Baraka in Newark the following year. This new generation of municipal leaders offers valuable lessons for those seeking grassroots reform.
