Lead the plot into some wild team-ups.

4.

Super Heroes: A Modern Mythology by Richard Reynolds - This one kept popping up in the bibliographies of Comic and Super-hero studies. A short book which is probably the guy's thesis, and is a little dated from its 1992 origins, but still quite insightful. I just wish there was better examples than The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen.

You have been disappointed in love but a better woman will replace her.

5.

Desperadoes by Ron Hansen - A western that I have meant to read for years. My Dad gave me my first Ron Hansen book and I thank him for it everytime I think of him. Hansen's first novel, it is the fictionalized first person account of the famed Dalton gang and their daring train and bank robberies.

Because the character and comic book offered a grand and triumphant vision of Afrofuturist blackness...

6.

Super Black by Adilifu Nama - I stumbled upon this book while browsing Facebook one day, saw one of my favourite comic characters and knew I had to read it. Nama, a professor of Africa American Studies, does a pretty good job of analysing all the major black superheroes in comics, TV and film. Some pretty good insights and criticism.

All the emotion I thought was dead rushing at me.

7.

Start Shooting by Charlie Newton - Picked up and advanced copy of this Chicago noir. Had high hopes of a good pot-boiler, but although this started out with promise of guns, gangs, drugs and corruption it soon turned silly with Japanese bio-weapons and a Viet Nam revenge saga. Blergh. I think I want my money back.