Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studies and urban

Meet Joe Gomez. He’s got high school on lock – good grades, a cool band, and girls digging his vibe. But just when he’s got the world figured out, he goes

Includes international essays on possibly the most important aspect of the aesthetics and narratives of comics - urban topography and environment.

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A group of young vigilantes roam the streets of Brooklyn solving supernatural crimes.