Gerard Jones

"Gerard Jones, a longtime insider to the comic book business, draws on years of research and interview to reveal how the collision of Yiddish and American culture shaped the modern vision of the hero. He recounts the frightened counterattack against comics that nearly destroyed the industry in the 1950s and traces the underground resurgence that inspired a new generation to transmute those long-ago fantasies into art, literature, and blockbuster movies....

A warrior arose 140 years ago in Kyoto, with the coming of the American "black ships," who helped introduce the progressive age known as Meiji and then vanished. This tale begins in the 11th year of Meiji, in Tokyo. With his killer blade, legend-warrior Hitokiri Battosai once helped close the turbulent Bakumatsu era and slashed open the progressive age known as Meiji. It's now 1878, ten years after the bloody Meiji Revolution that marked the end of...

"Outfoxed Byakuya transports Inuyasha and Sesshomaru to another dimension where no friends can come to their aid--and then Naraku joins the battle! Plus, Shippo enters a fox demon competition. Have his skills improved or deteriorated since he started hanging out with Inuyasha?.."--Publisher's description.

"Magatsuhi, the embodiment of the evil half of the Shikon Jewel, is on the loose. Inuyasha and Kagome return from modern-day Tokyo to find their friends possessed, injured or unconscious! Then, as if things weren't bad enough, their archenemy Naraku appears and tries to absorb one of the few left standing" -- from publisher's web site.

A faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams's classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits seeking safety and happiness after their warren comes under terrible threat.