Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

598 STRANGE TALES Straczynski’s writings often explore broad social, political, and philosophical issues, but through the choice ...

STRANGERS IN PARADISE 599 been shot. However, he discovers that the woman is his cheating wife whose greed had encouraged him to ...

600 STRANGERS IN PARADISE Press; for eight issues of the third volume, SiP moved to Homage, an Image Comics imprint. Th e remain ...

STUCK RUBBER BABY 601 Th e third and fi nal volume of the series is the longest of the three, running from issues 17 to 90. Moor ...

602 STUCK RUBBER BABY U.K. Comic Art Awards. Th e book received the Prix de la critique in France, and the Luche award in German ...

SUMMER OF LOVE, THE 603 sexual orientation. His inner confl icts mirror those reshaping the wider society, and the likelihood th ...

604 SUMMER OF LOVE, THE of the fi nal printed art appear to be hand rendered. Th is is signifi cant in that Drechsler began usin ...

SUPERHEROES 605 as a facet of the Riot Grrl movement. Th at movement was pervaded by the dominant themes echoed in Th e Summer o ...

606 SUPERHEROES (1930), and Doc Savage (1933). Both Danner and Savage infl uenced the creation of Superman. In America, the aven ...

SUPERHEROES 607 One can identify the three primary conventions of the superhero genre. Th e most identifi able element of the ge ...

608 SUPERHEROES transformative power of gamma rays; the limited authorities—General Th underbolt Ross; a pal—Rick Jones; superte ...

SUPERHEROES 609 Batman and Wonder Man, both direct responses to Superman, appeared in May of 1939, as did the Sub-Mariner. In th ...

610 SUPERHEROES Superheroes dated and married (Spider-Man and his various girlfriends, the Flash and Iris Allen, and Mr. Fantast ...

SUPERHEROES 611 himself shifted from being a nerdy loser high school student to a handsome, successful, Pulitzer Prize–winning c ...

612 SUPERHEROES and Wa t c h m e n, both die at the end of their series, Batman fi guratively and Rorschach literally. Superman ...

SUPERMAN 613 such as Final Night (1996) or Infi nity Gauntlet (1991), the event would absorb the respective universe but pass an ...

614 SUPERMAN Th e initial stories featuring Su- perman refl ected this decreased power-level, pitting Superman against mostly mo ...

SUPERMAN 615 whereas they had earlier died when he was still young. Clark started a relationship with Lois since he was no longe ...

616 SUPERMAN: BIRTHRIGHT Glenn, ed. Th e Man from Krypton: A Closer Look at Superman. Dallas: Benbella, 2005. Jackson Jennings S ...

SUPERMAN: RED SON 617 Waid’s approach to the story is also diff erent than most of his predecessors; there is a lot more time de ...