Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland’s thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey’s true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey’s cult celebrity stature.
1: Back In Black. 2: Coming To Rid Your Earth of the Scum of the Universe… Again! 3: Same Planet. New Scum. 4: This Summer, They’re Back in Black. 5: This Summer, They’re Back in Business. They’re Back in Action. They’re Back in Black. 6: Time to put on the last suit you’ll ever wear…again…
Plot Summary:
It has been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Kay has since returned to the comforts of civilian life while Jay continues to work for the Men in Black, the highly funded yet unofficial government agency that regulates all things alien on earth. While investigating a seemingly routine crime, Jay uncovers a diabolical plot masterminded by Serleena, an evil Kylothian monster who disguises herself as a sexy lingerie model. It’s a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay–who not only has no memory of his time spent with the agency, but is also the only person alive who has the expertise to save the galaxy–to reunite with the MIB before Earth is destroyed completely.
1: A Gift. A Curse. A Destiny. 2: Do you want to know who I am? I’m Spider-Man 3: Does whatever a spider can 4: Get Ready For The Ultimate Spin! 5: Go for the ultimate spin 6: If somebody told you I was just your average guy, not a care in the world… somebody lied. 7: Next Summer, One Hero will take you for the Ultimate Spin 8: On May Third, the Entire World Will Connect to the Web. 9: Spider, spider, spider, go squish! 10: There is a thin line between being an ordinary man and an extraordinary hero. In 2002, that line will be crossed. 11: This is my gift. It is my curse. 12: This spider gonna mess you up! 13: Turn your world upside dow 14: With great power comes great responsibility.
Plot Summary:
A rather odd thing has just occurred in the life of nerdy high school student Peter Parker: after being bitten by a genetically modified spider, his body chemistry is altered mutagenically. He can now scale walls and ceilings, he has superhuman strength and super-fast reflexes, and he develops a precognitive sense that warns him of approaching danger. Adopting the name Spider-Man, Peter first uses his newfound powers to make money, but after his uncle is murdered at the hands of a criminal Peter failed to stop, he swears to use his powers to fight the evil that killed his uncle. At the same time, scientist and businessman Norman Osborn, after exposure to an experimental nerve gas, develops an alternate personality himself: the super-strong, psychotic Green Goblin! Peter Parker must now juggle three things in his life: his new job at a local newspaper under a perpetually on-edge employer, his battle against the evil Green Goblin, and his fight to win the affections of beautiful classmate Mary Jane Watson, against none other than his best friend Harry Osborn, son of Norman Osborn! Is this challenge too much for even the Amazing Spider-Man to handle?
1: In the future, one man is the law. 2: One man is Judge, Jury, AND Executioner.
Plot Summary:
In a dystopic future, where urban areas have grown into megacities that cover entire coastal regions, the justice system has evolved to a single person invested with the power of police, judge, jury, and executioner: the Judge. Among the Judges of Mega-City One, Judge Dredd is one of the best, and a particular favorite of the Head of the Council, Judge Fargo. But there are evil forces at work in the Justice Dept: block riots and the escape of Rico, a homicidal maniac, are only steps in a plan that ultimately lead to the sentencing of Dredd for a murder he didn’t commit. And Dredd must discover the secrets of his own past and survive to stop the evildoers.
