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Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man, Worst. Person. Ever. is Douglas Coupland's gloriously filthy, side-splittingly funny and unforgettable novel. Meet Raymond Gunt. A decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or, to put it another way, the worst person ever: a foul-mouthed, misanthropic cameraman, trailing creditors, ex-wives and unhappy homeless people in his wake. Men dislike him, women flee from him....
2) Deadpool
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, the film tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who, after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
©2010
Description
"There's no faster path to paranoia and delusion than the red carpet of celebrity, and in the City no one is more famous than mega-popular attack journalist Spider Jerusalem. Nearly paralyzed by his own media omnipresence, Jerusalem has been reduced to a populist caricature, his muckraking teeth blunted by the sticky-sweet syrup of adulation. Luckily, he still has his enemies to keep him on his toes--even through a narcotized fog, nothing concentrates...
Publisher
Marvel Studios
Pub. Date
2016
Formats
Description
After another incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability, headed by a governing body to oversee and direct the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers, resulting in two camps, one led by Steve Rogers and his desire for the Avengers to remain free to defend humanity without government interference, and the other following Tony Stark₂s surprising decision to...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Amanda Waller has lost her iron grip on the Suicide Squad, pushed aside in favor of a new commander. While she lays plans to take back Task Force X, a supernatural secret society is quietly moving in for the kill. But an even more powerful enemy awaits--and it's an enemy within. A traitor in the ranks is scheming to use the Squad as cannon fodder in a bloody power struggle. And the battle won't take place in the war-torn Middle East, the shadowy...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Killed in action. That's the official story on the Suicide Squad, the crack team of the world's most dangerous super-villains assembled to do the jobs too dirty for the good guys to handle. Also known as Task Force X, they've been X'd out, leaving their minder and master, Amanda Waller, behind to pick up the pieces. At least that's what they want you to believe. Thanks to Harley Quinn's secret contact on the outside, the Squad has faked their deaths,...
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Amanda Waller has been imprisoned for a year, and her Task Force X disbanded after they fled her custody while taking down LOA. But the U.S. government isn't finished with the Suicide Squad. Political unrest in the Eastern European country of Vlatava causes Sarge Steel to turn to the dirtiest black ops team in the business, but this time Waller has a price: full autonomy. The Suicide Squad are now free agents. With the help of Batman, Waller reassembles...
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In a world where superheroes are largely the property of the military-industrial complex - and answerable to no one - the job of keeping them in line by any means necessary is gleefully accepted by black-ops contracter Billy Butcher and his cadre of operatives known as " The Boys."
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Task Force X, a secret government program designed to neutralize super-powered threats, has gone through many transformations since it was first created during World War II, but one thing has never changed: its members call themselves the Suicide Squad, and they live up to their name. Faced with a rising tide of meta-human crime and terror, the program's hard-headed director Amanda Waller sold the president on her vision of an updated Task Force...
Author
Series
Deadpool world's greatest volume 8
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
You've never seen marital problems like this! It was a whirlwind romance - Deadpool traveled across the world with Shiklah, fighting all sorts of threats at her side, and finally married her as a way to thwart the evil vampire lord, Dracula! But the honeymoon is over, and reality has set in. Wade's bride is a demon succubus and the queen of a monstrous kingdom hidden beneath Manhattan. So when this Monster Metropolis declares war on the surface world,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Season 1. The Boys is an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes--as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians, and as revered as gods--abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It's the powerless against the superpowerful as The Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about "The Seven" and their formidable Vought backing.
Season 2. In a more intense Season Two Butcher, Hughie and the team reel from their...
17) Logan
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Following the record-breaking success of Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the First Avenger will jump into his next big screen solo adventure on May 6, 2016 in Marvel's Captain America: Civil War! Inspired by a classic Marvel comics storyline, the third cinematic Captain America adventure will put Cap against his fellow Avenger, Iron Man. Chris Evans will reprise his role as Captain America, joined by Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man and...
19) You are Deadpool
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Did you ever want to be Deadpool?! Of course you did! Well, now's your chance - in this amazing role-playing romp! YOU decide what choices Deadpool makes! YOU keep track of your scores as the story unfolds! YOU roll dice to combat various foes - and we're watching, so no cheating! Determine your own destiny as you travel through Marvel history as Deadpool himself...meeting the Hulk in the swinging '60s! Smelling Man-Thing in the swampy '70s! Looking...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Just when you thought the blockbuster story of Venom couldn't get any more intense, Donny Cates turns the world of Eddie Brock on its head - again! But this time it won't be dragons and god-hosts and breakneck action. This time Eddie's going through an emotional meat grinder the likes of which has never been seen in the Marvel Universe! As Eddie finds himself truly alone for the first time in a long time, the silence is deafening. Plus: San Francisco...
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