Curated Lists 2023

Carmen is tantalizingly close to fulfilling her dream of writing a superhero book. But sudden roadblocks appear—her colleague is found dead and her cop friend from Miami is further complicating things by asking questions she doesn’t want to answer. With each passing day, she’s more caught up in the tangled web of secrets and resentments of the passionate eccentrics who write comics for a living.
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Anna works providing clerical services to low-level supervillains. In an encounter with SuperCollider, one of the world's most powerful superheroes, Anna is injured. While recovering, she researches the negative effects of superheroes and concludes that they often do more harm than good. She starts a blog to share her findings, which brings her to the attention of the world's greatest supervillain, Leviathan, who recruits her to assist him. Anna heads a team that uses data science to find superheroes’ weaknesses in order to sabotage them, bringing her and Leviathan closer to their goal of revenge against SuperCollider.
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Reveals how the American superhero modeled new forms of social belonging that counterculture youth would embrace in the 1960s and after. The New Mutants provides the first full-length study to consider the relationship between comic book fantasy and radical politics in the modern United States.
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Exploring a variety of female superhero narratives, including Wonder Woman comics and television shows like The Secrets of Isis, The Bionic Woman, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this book argues that twentieth-century superheroine stories historically depicted education as the path to female liberation.
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