The Death-Ray - Signed & Numbered


 

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Description

With "The Death-Ray Special Edition 2011 Comic-Con International Bookplate" limited to 300 Signed & Numbered copies.

From the publisher:

On Time, NPR, and USA Today's Best-of-2011 lists! Winner of the Eisner, Harvey, AND Ignatz awards!

Teen outcast Andy is an orphaned nobody with only one friend, the obnoxious but loyal Louie. They roam school halls and city streets, invisible to everyone but bullies and tormentors, until the glorious day when Andy takes his first puff on a cigarette. That night he wakes, heart pounding, soaked in sweat, and finds himself suddenly overcome with the peculiar notion that he can do anything. Indeed, he can and as he learns the extent of his new powers, he discovers a terrible and seductive gadget -- a hideous compliment to his seething rage -- that forever changes everything.

The Death-Ray utilizes the classic staples of the superhero genre -- origin, costume, ray-gun, sidekick, fight scene -- reconfiguring them in a story that is anything but morally simplistic. With subtle comedy, deft mastery and an obvious affection for the bold Pop Art exuberance of comic book design, Daniel Clowes delivers a contemporary meditation on the the darkness of the human psyche.

Features

Daniel Clowes

Condition & Attributes

Near Fine, issued without dustjacket (light surface wear otherwise Fine)
#259 of 300 numbered copies signed by the artist

Creators

Daniel
Clowes

Publishing Information

New York
Drawn & Quarterly
2011
1st
9781770460515

Physical Description

12.3 inches
9.2 inches
48 pages
color
Hardcover
pictorial boards
English