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*1001 $aClowes, Daniel,$d1961-$4aut$4ill
*24514$aThe death-ray /$cby Daniel Clowes.
*250  $aFirst softcover edition.
*264 1$aMontréal :$bDrawn & Quarterly,$c2023
*300  $a40 pages$bchiefly colour illustrations$c31 cm
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*500  $aThis story originally appeared in Eightball #23. Spring 2004. Eightball published by Fantagraphics, Inc.
*520  $aAndy, a miserable high-schooler in 1970s Chicago, has only one friend, an angry fellow outcast named Louie. He's desperately in love with a girl he met in California who won't return his letters and he's filled with shame at the constant taunts of his classmates. When he achieves super strength from smoking cigarettes he uses it for neither good nor evil but in a brutal playground showdown.
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*650 0$aNineteen seventies$vComic books, strips, etc.
*650 0$aSuperheroes$vComic books, strips, etc.
*650 0$aTeenagers$vComic books, strips, etc.
*655 0$aSuperhero comics.
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A cartoonist's acclaimed take on the superhero genre -- now in paperback.

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--and reconfigures 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 darkness of the human psyche.

One of Clowes's most beloved books, The Death-Ray is the winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards.