Author: Oropeza B.J.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Keywords: superheroes, according, gospel
Number of Pages: 295
Published: 2006-08-24
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0820474223
ISBN-13: 9780820474229

The Gospel According to Superheroes: Religion and Popular Culture offers an intriguing look at superheroes in light of the spiritual and mythological roles they play in our lives. B. J. Oropeza takes you through the adventuresome quest of three comic book eras as you read about the popular narratives of superheroes such as Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, X-Men, Hulk, Wonder Woman, the Fantastic Four, sci-fi film heroes, pulp heroes, antiheroes, and more. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in viewing the superheroes as both sinners and saints instead of mere good guys taking on the fo

Author: Deborah Eisenberg
Publisher: Picador USA
Keywords: superheroes, twilight
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0330444603
ISBN-13: 9780330444606

Deborah Eisenberg is almost unmatched in her mastery of the short story form. In this, her seventh collection, she demonstrates her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, unflinchingly honest studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luxurious Manhattan sublet becomes a front-row seat to the catastrophe of 9/11; to the Roman holiday of a schoolteacher running away from the news of her ex-husband’s life-threatening illness; to the too painful love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister, Eisenberg evokes painful and tender truths, both poetic and

Author: Andrew Kaufman
Publisher: Coach House Press
Keywords: superheroes, friends
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2003-10-20
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1552451305
ISBN-13: 9781552451304

Author: Maxwell Eaton
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Keywords: superheroes, pinky, max, adventures
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-10-09
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 0375838058
ISBN-13: 9780375838057

THEY BATTLE SNOW MONSTERS, save whales, and stop falling meteors - but Max hogs all the glory while Pinky mostly gets clobbered! Will the super-duo become solo-heroes? What will happen when one of them gets his head stuck in a fence? Who will save the day (and exact a little silly revenge)? All will be revealed in this thrilling tale of capes, friendship, and lemonade!Maxwell Eaton offers a sweetly zany tale that will have both kids and grown-ups laughing out loud and possibly donning a cape.

Author: Deborah Eisenberg
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: stories, superheroes, twilight
Number of Pages: 225
Published: 2007-01-23
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312425937
ISBN-13: 9780312425937

Authors:Lois H. Gresh, Robert Weinberg,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: superheroes, science
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-09-17
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0471024600
ISBN-13: 9780471024606

"I found this book to be a hoot from beginning to end. Ms. Gresh and Mr. Weinberg must have spent some time in institutions for the deranged, because well-balanced minds could not have conceived of this project. But thank God for their derangement, for they have produced a package of pure fun from first page to last. If, like me, you admire superheroes from a distance, or if you are a hardcore fan of them, you will enjoy this book as surely as you would enjoy waking one morning to discover that you are invincible, able to fly, and in possession of a totally cool costume behind which to hide yo

Author: Danny Fingeroth
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: ourselves, society, really, superheroes, couch, superman
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-02
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0826415407
ISBN-13: 9780826415400

Why are so many of the superhero myths tied up with loss, often violent, of parents or parental figures? What is the significance of the dual identity? What makes some superhuman figures "good" and others "evil"? Why are so many of the prime superheroes white and male? How has the superhero evolved over the course of the 20th and early 21st centuries? And how might the myths be changing? Why is it that the key superhero archetypes - Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, the X-Men - touch primal needs and experiences in everyone? Why has the superhero moved beyond the pages of comics