Author: Clowes, Daniel
Title: The death-ray
Published: Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2011
Description: 40 p. :chiefly col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Call Number: PN6727 C65 D42 2011
Note(s): Originally published in Eightball #23, 2004
Summary: Andy, 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
Subject(s):
- Teenagers -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc
- High schools -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Nineteen seventies -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Fantasy comic books, strips, etc
- Comic books, strips, etc
- Graphic novels
Review(s):
- Köhler, Nicholas. "THE DEATH-RAY." Maclean's 124, no. 41 (October 24, 2011): 75
- Flagg, Gordon. "The Death-Ray." Booklist 108, no. 4 (October 15, 2011): 34
- MACDONALD, HEIDI. "Classics New and Old." Publishers Weekly 258, no. 26 (June 27, 2011): 32-36
