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Sherlock Holmes: Victorian Knights #1
by Blue Water Productions

Dead body? Check.

Haunted boarding house? Check.

Asshole detective and his long-suffering sidekick? Double Check.

Take a nineteenth-century, roller coaster ride chocked full of all the Action, Mystery, and Deduction you’ve come to love out of the adventures of the world’s greatest detective in this new four-issue mini-series.

$3.99 $1.99

Also of Note…

High Brow, High Class, and Highly Entertaining

Publisher McFarland has uploaded a number of really extensive, interesting, and enjoyable non-fiction books that cover all kinds of fascinating subjects. Illustrated with tons of comic images and related graphics, these books compile expertly researched facts and excellent writing to tell the tales of great figures in both history and comics. Let’s take a look at some –

From his first comic-book appearance in 1939 through his many incarnations on the big screen, the archetypal superhero known as The Batman has never been far from the American consciousness. The character shaped the way we read comics and graphic novels, view motion pictures, and analyze the motifs of the Hero, the Anti-Hero and the Villain. He has also captured the scholarly imagination, telling us much about our society and ourselves.

The essays in Riddle Me This, Batman! examine how Batman is both the canvas on which our cultural identity is painted, and the Eternal Other that informs our own journeys of understanding.

Questions relating to a wide range of disciplines–philosophy, literature, psychology, pop culture, and more–are thoroughly and entertainingly explored, in a manner that will appeal both to scholars and to fans of the Caped Crusader alike.

Superhero films are one of the most enduring genres of cinema, and their popularity is only increasing in the 21st century.

The ten critical essays in The 21st Century Superhero: Essays on Gender, Genre and Globalization in Film explore the phenomenon through the lenses of numerous academic disciplines, and cover topics such as the role of globalization in the formation of superhero narratives, the shifting nature of masculinity and femininity in the superhero world and the state of the genre today.

Of particular interest is the way these narratives, however fantastic, abstract, futuristic or simplistic, resonate with specific events in the world and function as starting points for discussion of contemporary sociopolitical conflicts.

That notorious evening at Villa Diodati when Lord Byron challenged his contemporaries to write a ghost story, his summons brought forth a mad doctor intent on reanimation and a vampire drunk with bloodlust.

The night modern horror was born was notoriously dark and stormy, as were the lives of those who wrote the most fearsome–yet beloved–tales in literature, for those so gifted were also cursed.

Horrors: Great Stories of Fear and Their Creators, a graphic novel, reveals in gruesome detail how Mary Wollstonecraft, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and other masters of the genre were haunted by their monstrous creations.

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