![]() ![]() One sweltering summer in the Park, a housing complex outside of Toronto, Michael and Francis are coming of age and learning to stomach the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry. In luminous, incisive prose, a startling new literary talent explores masculinity, race, and sexuality against a backdrop of simmering violence during the summer of 1991. WINNER-Rogers' Writers' Trust Fiction Prize " Highly recommend Brother by David Chariandy-concise and intense, elegiac short novel of devastation and hope." -Joyce Carol Oates, via Twitter "A brilliant, powerful elegy from a living brother to a lost one, yet pulsing with rhythm, and beating with life." -Marlon James ![]()
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Like most Marvel stories, the world is going to end unless our beloved super heroes figure out a way to save it in time. The eight-issue series takes place in a world where Marvel superheroes exist in the Elizabethean era. ![]() The story of Marvel 1602 incorporates many Marvel favorites and transposes them into the world of 1602, at the end of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and the start of James I’s reign upon her death. In MARVEL 1602, award-winning writer Neil Gaiman presents a unique vision of the Marvel Universe set four hundred years in the past. Marvel 1602 is a Marvel Comics limited series first published in 2003. Good news for me, Marvel 1602, the compendium of the first 8 issues, has the entire transcript in the back! This made the transition from traditional printed material to comic much smoother! ![]() Unlike a stage play, however, you have to follow the flow of the dialogue in an illustrated manner, therefore, the reading is not linear in anyway. 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Hatke later published a short Zita story, "Wishing Socks", in the graphic anthology Flight Explorer (2008). ![]() Others may still be viewable via the Internet Archive. ![]() A few of the original strips can still be viewed online here. Zita the Spacegirl began in 2004 as a Webcomic by Ben Hatke, comprising a series of apparently unconnected online strips featuring the eponymous human girl and her humorous adventures with aliens and robots in outer space. ![]() |