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| x Superhero |
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More Fun Comics | Mind Out of Time! |
A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a fictional character of "extraordinary or superhuman powers" dedicated to protecting the public. Since the debut of the prototypical superhero Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes...
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| Journey into Mystery | X-Men | |||
| Civil War | The Legend of the Batman - Who He is, and How he Came to Be | |||
| Project Superpowers | A Death in the Family, Part One | |||
| Captain America Comics | A Death in the Family, Part Two | |||
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| x Fantasy |
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Fables | The Sandman: Dream Country |
Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, the majority of fantasy works have been literature. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic...
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| Jack of Fables | A Midsummer Night's Dream | |||
| Phonogram | Calliope | |||
| Cerebus the Aardvark | A Dream of a Thousand Cats | |||
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| x Fiction |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream |
Fiction (Latin: fictum, "created") is a branch of literature which deals, in part or in whole, with temporally contrafactual events (events that are not true at the time of writing). In contrast to this is non-fiction, which deals exclusively in...
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| x Short story | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas (in the 20th and 21st century sense) and novels or books. Short story...
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| x Graphic novel |
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The Sandman: Dream Country |
A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using the comics form. The term is employed in a broad manner, encompassing non-fiction works and thematically linked short stories as well as fictional stories across...
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| x Zombie |
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Marvel Zombies: Dead Days |
A zombie is a creature that appears in books and popular culture typically as a reanimated dead or a mindless human being. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the people being...
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| Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness | ||||
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| x Detective |
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Will Eisner's The Spirit |
A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators (P.I.s or "Private I's", hence the play-on-words, "Private Eyes"). Informally, and primarily in fiction, a...
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| x Dystopia |
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Y: The Last Man |
A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is the often futuristic vision of a society in which conditions of life are miserable and characterized by poverty, oppression, war, violence...
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| x Anti-hero |
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Jack of Fables |
In fiction, an antihero (feminine: antiheroine) is a protagonist archetype whose character or goals are antithetical to traditional heroism. That is, whereas the traditional hero stands for the values of courage and self-sacrifice, the antihero...
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| x Cyberpunk |
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Transmetropolitan |
Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life". The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk", published in 1983. It...
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| x Parallel universe |
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Wanted |
Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own. A specific group of parallel universes is called a multiverse, although this term can also be used to describe the possible parallel universes...
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| x Horror |
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Supernatural: Origins |
Horror fiction is a genre of fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle and horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human...
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| x Science fiction |
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2000 AD | Judge Dredd: Mutie Block (Part 1) |
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that aren't necessarily accepted by mainstream science. such as extra-terrestrial life forms, alien worlds, esp, and time travel,...
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| Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer | Judge Dredd: The Edgar Case (Part 6) | |||
| The Invisibles | ||||
| x Parody |
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The Pro |
A parody film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or films. The main conventions for this genre are:
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| x Ballad |
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The Book of Ballads and Sagas |
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative and set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later...
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| x Alien invasion | Superman: War of the Worlds |
The alien invasion is a common theme in science fiction stories and film, in which an extraterrestrial society invades Earth with the intent to exterminate and replace human life, enslave it under a colonial system, to harvest humans for food, or...
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| x Fictional crossover |
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Superman: War of the Worlds |
A fictional crossover is the placement of two or more otherwise discrete fictional characters, settings, or universes into the context of a single story. They can arise from legal agreements between the relevant copyright holders, or because of...
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| x Autobiographical comics | American Splendor |
Autobiographical comics (often referred to in the comics field as simply autobio) are autobiography in the form of comic books or comic strips. The form first became popular in the underground comics movement and has since become more widespread. It...
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| Maus | ||||
| Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary | ||||
| In the Shadow of No Towers | ||||
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| x Erotic literature |
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Penthouse comix |
Erotic literature comprises fictional and factual stories and accounts of human sexual relationships which have the power to or are intended to arouse the reader sexually. Such erotica takes the form of novels, short stories, poetry, true-life...
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| x Satire |
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Cerebus the Aardvark |
Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form, although in practice it is also found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of...
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| x Anarchy | The Invisibles |
Anarchy (from Greek: ἀναρχίᾱ anarchíā, "without ruler") may refer to any of the following:
The tumult of the English Civil War (1641–1651) led to the term to be taken up in political philosophy. Anarchy was one of the issues at the Putney Debates of...
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