Editorial Content for X-Men: Age of X
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When you’ve grown up reading the Claremont/Cockrum, Claremont/Byrne, Claremont/Smith, Claremont/Romita, Claremont/Lee, etc. X-Men stories, it can be a little difficult to get all that excited about a new X-offering. Sure, there are great stories still being told (this goes back a ways, but the Joss Whedon Astonishing X-Men storyline was top-notch).
"[I]t doesn’t take long before you’re gripped by this story. It’s one of the most exciting and compelling X-Men tales in years."
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An alternate timeline sees an ultraviolent world where the X-Men never existed in this gripping, hard-to-put-down superhero epic.
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An alternate timeline sees an ultraviolent world where the X-Men never existed in this gripping, hard-to-put-down superhero epic.
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In a world where the X-Men never existed, and mutantkind has been hunted to extinction, the few remaining mutants have banded together to make their last stand. They spend each day securing the walls of their stronghold, Fortress X, beating back the anti-mutant forces that would see them wiped out. But when a conspiracy is discovered within Fortress X itself, could it be that mutantkind's last bastion will crumble from the inside out? When the dust settles, no one will be left unscathed.
Collecting AGE OF X ALPHA, X-MEN LEGACY #245-247, NEW MUTANTS (2009) #22-24, AGE OF X UNIVERSE #1-2 and the AGE OF X HISTORICAL LOGS.
Editorial Content for What Boys Really Want
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What do boys really want? Is it true that they think about sex every seven seconds? Why do they spend more time focusing on what they are eating than the pretty girl who is sitting across the table? And why do they have a need to recklessly endanger themselves while trying to impress others? High-schooler Adam Merchant is pretty sure he knows the answers, or at least where to find them, and he’s betting that you’ll be willing to spend the $10 to find out once he’s published his book. That is, if his best friend Lita Wold will let him. Read More
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Lita is the writer. Adam is the entrepreneur. They are JUST FRIENDS. And they might never agree, but in this hilarious story, they manage to give the world a little more insight into what boys and girls are really looking for.
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Lita is the writer. Adam is the entrepreneur. They are JUST FRIENDS.
So Adam would never sell copies of a self-help book before he'd even written it. And Lita would never try to break up Adam's relationship with Blair, the skankiest girl at school. They'd never sabotage their friends Emily and Dennis. Lita would never date a guy related to a girl she can't stand. They'd never steal each other's blog posts. And Adam would never end up in a fist fight with Lita's boyfriend. Nope, never.
Adam and Lita might never agree on what happened, but in this hilarious story from Pete Hautman, they manage to give the world a little more insight into what boys and girls are really looking for.
Editorial Content for The Queen of Kentucky
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Ricki Jo Winstead and her best friend, Luke Foster, are no strangers to hard work and long hours toiling in the hot and humid tobacco fields of rural Kentucky. As they cut tobacco on the last day of summer vacation, Ricki Jo announces she would like to be called “Ericka” when they enter high school. Short, flat-chested and not yet starting her period, Ericka is anxious to grow up quickly. She wants to wear name-brand clothes and reinvent herself to fit in with the popular, country-club crowd that rules the school. Read More
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Fourteen-year-old Ricki Jo always wanted to be popular. Now, she's on top of the world, even though her best friend Luke says he misses "plain old Ricki Jo." It takes a serious incident on Luke's farm for Ricki Jo to realize that being a true friend is more important than being popular.
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Fourteen-year-old Kentucky girl Ricki Jo Winstead, who would preferred to be called Ericka, thank you very much, is eager to shed her farmer's daughter roots and become part of the popular crowd at her small town high school. She trades her Bible for Seventeen magazine, buys new "sophisticated" clothes and somehow manages to secure a tenuous spot at the cool kids table. She's on top of the world, even though her best friend and the boy next door Luke says he misses "plain old Ricki Jo."
Caught between being a country girl and wannabe country club girl, Ricki Jo begins to forget who she truly is: someone who doesn't care what people think and who wouldn't let a good-looking guy walk all over her. It takes a serious incident out on Luke's farm for Ricki Jo to realize that being a true friend is more important than being popular.
Editorial Content for Death Watch
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Death is a topic that stirs up rich and different emotions in every person. It is often seen as a final act, one in which the individual is mourned heavily and then never seen or heard from again. The dead also do not have a say in what happens, and all their regrets and memories are buried along with them. There are a host of people and jobs that play an important role in the death process, and while they seem pretty straightforward up front, they are a bit more complicated than most think. Read More
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The sudden death of Silas Umber's father leads Silas to find out that he was an Undertaker, who brought peace to the dead trapped in limbo. When Silas discovers the Death Watch, a clock that allows the owner to see the dead, he realizes that he must take his father’s place.
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The sudden death of Silas Umber's father leads Silas to find out that he was an Undertaker, who brought peace to the dead trapped in limbo. When Silas discovers the Death Watch, a clock that allows the owner to see the dead, he realizes that he must take his father’s place.
About the Book
One night, Silas Umber's father Amos doesn't come home from work. Devastated, Silas learns that his father was no mere mortician but an Undertaker, charged with bringing The Peace to the dead trapped in the Shadowlands, the states of limbo binding spirits to earth. With Amos gone, Silas and his mother have no choice but to return to Lichport, the crumbling seaside town where Silas was born, and move in with Amos's brother, Charles.
