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Marvel Solicitations for August 2019

MARVEL COMICS #1000

THE GREATEST TALENT EVER ASSEMBLED FOR ONE STORY! THIS IS THE BIG ONE! In celebration of Marvel’s 80th Anniversary, we have gathered together the greatest array of talent ever to be assembled between the covers of a single comic book! Names from the past, from the present, and even the future! Every page is filled with all-new work from this cavalcade of comic book luminaries! There is a mystery that threads throughout the Marvel Universe — one that has its origins in MARVEL COMICS #1 and which unites a disparate array of heroes and villains throughout the decades! What is the Eternity Mask, and who is responsible for the conspiracy to keep it hidden? And what new player will make their startling debut as these secrets are peeled away? Featuring the entirety of the Marvel Universe of characters!

DAREDEVIL #9 CHIP ZDARSKY (W) LALIT KUMAR SHARMA (A) Cover by JULIAN TOTINO TEDESCO There’s a new DAREDEVIL in town, and Matt Murdock has no idea who it is! Neither does Cole North, the tough-as-nails detective who’s been hot on the Guardian Devil’s trail for weeks. Can Matt Murdock truly live a life without Daredevil? Can Cole?

DAREDEVIL #10 CHIP ZDARSKY (W) LALIT KUMAR SHARMA (A) Cover by JULIAN TOTINO TEDESCO ��NO DEVILS, ONLY GOD” CONCLUDES! Matt Murdock comes face-to-face with the choices he’s made. Hell’s Kitchen rises up to fill the void!

SHE-HULK ANNUAL #1 ALEXANDRA PETRI (W) • ANDY MACDONALD (A) • Cover by MIRKA ANDOLFO ACTS OF EVIL! Bullseye being hired for an assassination? Just another Tuesday. But when he decides to pin it on She-Hulk? Bad idea. Strap in as everyone’s favorite lawyer-slash-Hulk, Jennifer Walters, takes on the mad marksman in a classic case of character defamation…with a heaping helping of SMASH. Plus: Robots! Why? Well, you’ll just have to wait and see…

VALKYRIE: JANE FOSTER #2 JASON AARON & Al Ewing (W) • CAFU (A) • Cover by MAHMUD ASRAR INTRODUCING THE GOD OF THE KILL – BULLSEYE! The deadliest shot in the Marvel Universe just got his hands on the sword of a god! With the Asgardian weapon Dragonfang, Bullseye has the power to kill a god in a single stroke — and he’s about to prove it. Jane Foster, the newly christened Valkyrie, must learn a hard lesson: Not every death can be prevented. Who is next on Bullseye’s list — and what is the assassin really after?

#Daredevil vol. 6 #Daredevil #Bullseye #She-Hulk #Valkyrie #Jane Foster #Solicitations #Looks like it's Bullseye Gets His Butt Whupped Month!

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contentcavalcade-blog · 8 years ago

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Cavalcade’s Top 10 Favourite Books (of all time)

It’s World Book Day today! And because we aren’t allowed to dress up, we’re going to talk about our favourite books instead. Today’s the day when book nerds can emerge bleary-eyed from their library caves to share with the world what they love to read. Which is our cue to present… Cavalcade’s Top 10 Favourite Novels (of all time), in no particular order:

1.The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach

A: I am not the kind of person who would be into a book about baseball. I’ve never watched a game and I don’t know the rules. So imagine my surprise when I picked up this book and bloody loved it. It might be set mostly on the baseball field, but that’s hardly important. This book transcends its own subject matter and wheedles its way into your psyche with gorgeous storylines and hauntingly real characters. That’s magical storytelling – getting someone who really doesn’t care to start caring. Harbach hit a home run with this one (couldn’t resist!).

2. NW, Zadie Smith

I: If you’ve ever read a book about what it means to be a Londoner, it won’t count once you’ve read NW. Every character becomes as real as the woman who gets your tube every day or the old man who lives in the flat next door. You’ll feel pride in our capital city and deeply uncomfortable with the injustices that reside there with you. And it has one of the truest depictions of female friendship I’ve ever read.

3. Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marisha Pessl

A: This is a masterclass in structure. A page-turning murder mystery told by a teenager, each chapter is a homage to the literary classic named in the title. It works hard on the micro-detail of each mini story, and then pulls everything neatly together to make the macro plot really compelling. Pessl’s an ambitious writer, so when she doesn’t quite hit the mark with her prose (as is sometimes the case), it’s really easy to forgive her.

4. A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke, Ronald Reng

M: The most affecting book I’ve ever read. A moving and sensitive story of the life and death of Robert Enke, written by one of his closest friends. Enke seemed to have it all – he was a world class goalkeeper and tipped to go to the World Cup with Germany in 2010. But a constant battle with depression saw him take his own life, stepping in front of a train in November 2009. He was 32. Enke’s tale is told vividly by those who knew him best and goes to show that just because you’re a sporting superstar, you’re by no means untouchable.

5. Animal Farm, George Orwell

M: I know if you’re picking a George Orwell book you should go for 1984, but for me Animal Farm is just as – perhaps even more – masterful. Wonderfully provocative, the book develops characters and emotions better than any novel I’ve ever come across, despite being about a quarter of the length of most other books.

6. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

I: Is it cheating, to include a book that’s more pictures than words? I don’t think so, because Persepolis moved me like no other book has ever done. It juxtaposes comical intimate family moments with the utter despair of the millions of lives damaged by the Islamic Revolution. I don’t know what I learnt more about; growing up and becoming a woman, or the modern history of Iran. Simultaneously heart-breaking and life-affirming.

7. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor

A: Being the poetry geek that I am, this book is right up my street. As much prose poem as it is novel, it slips in and out of the minds of the inhabitants of one British street to tell the story of one fateful day. At its core, the book is a tribute to the power of language – the prose is utterly mesmerising. Everyone who has an interest in writing and the influence of words should read this book.

8. Friday Night Lights, Buzz Bissinger

M: I really wanted to avoid picking two sporting books in my choices, but Friday Night Lights is one of those books that transcends sport. It’s not about American Football, it’s the story of small town America. A story about community. A story about obsession. It’s a powerful look at success and failure, about being young and having dreams. And about how those dreams can be dashed in a blink of an eye.

9. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

I: Thinking about this novel is like recalling a precious memory of a summer holiday, wrapped in nostalgia and tinged with sadness. It centres on the Ramsay family’s stay on the Isle of Skye, and is filled with cardigans and wet sand and all the dark undertones and underlying tensions of a typical British family holiday. But ultimately it’s a female narrative, which I love for all the elusive, misunderstood insecurities that come along with it.

10. e: A Novel, Matt Beaumont

We were keen to finish with a book related to the industry. But the internet is full of lists dedicated to The Tipping Point, Freakonomics and all those other texts you feel like you should read to expand your marketing brainpower. So instead, how about a novel based in an advertising agency, told entirely through emails, featuring characters and subjects that are far too close for comfort? Even 17 years after its release e is still instantly accessible, enormously enjoyable and utterly hilarious.

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