When the testing of a nuclear-powered invisibility device goes awry, Captain Rudolph Von Dorn transforms into the evil Captain Cyclops. Soon, he and his mutated crew set out on a path of destruction, blowing up islands and seaside towns with their nuclear-powered Destructo Beam. Dr. I.N. Stein and Colonel Bragg call on the Kid Squad - Pi, Athena, Gadget, and Tank - to come to the rescue. With their help, along with Captain Von Dorn's daughter Jenny, can the world be saved from the madness of the evil Captain Cyclops? Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Leave it to the Kid Squad - a foursome of clever sixth graders - to save the world from destruction brought on by mad scientists and power-hungry villains. Readers will enjoy getting to know Kid Squad members Pi, Tank, Gadget, and Athena as they work together to solve problems with the help of Dr. I.N. Stein and Colonel Bragg. A blend of science fiction, mystery, and history, the Kid Squad takes readers on out-of-this-world adventures while reinforcing themes of friendship, problem solving, and teamwork.Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

In his semiautobiographical novel, Cyclops, Croatian writer Ranko Marinkovic recounts the adventures of young theater critic Melkior Tresic, an archetypal antihero who decides to starve himself to avoid fighting in the front lines of World War II. As he wanders the streets of Zagreb in a near-hallucinatory state of paranoia and malnourishment, Melkior encounters a colorful circus of characters—fortune-tellers, shamans, actors, prostitutes, bohemians, and café intellectuals—all living in a fragile dream of a society about to be changed forever. A seminal work of postwar Eastern European literature, Cyclops reveals a little-known perspective on World War II from within the former Yugoslavia, one that has never before been available to an English-speaking audience. Vlada Stojiljkovic's able translation, improved by Ellen Elias-Bursac's insightful editing, preserves the striking brilliance of this riotously funny and densely allusive text. Along Melkior’s journey Cyclops satirizes both the delusions of the righteous military officials who feed the national bloodlust as well as the wayward intellectuals who believe themselves to be above the unpleasant realities of international conflict. Through Stojiljkovic's clear-eyed translation, Melkior’s peregrinations reveal how history happens and how the individual consciousness is swept up in the tide of political events, and this is accomplished in a mode that will resonate with readers of Charles Simic, Aleksandr Hemon, and Kundera.

Robert Lipinski and his mate Dan Ming drive away, after surviving a near fatal blast. They manage to go over the border into Canada on a scooter, with Gale, Roberts trusty sidekick, soaring above them. Once in Canada, the duo and magpie join a traveling Circus. Between the shows, Robert and Dan find a way to sell gems that were left over from their last job. After a few months with the Circus, the guys decide that their time there is up, and fly away onto their next adventure. The duo arrive in Hong Kong with Gale in tow, here the stakes are much higher than they have ever imagined, as they embark on a new wave of international crime, which leads them straight back to Martin aka Cyclops - Interpol agent and Roberts arch nemesis. When this showdown is over, all their lives will be changed forever.

Game of Thrones superstar EMILIA CLARKE debuts an EXTRA-LENGTH, THREE-ISSUE MINISERIES! The mayhem begins with Maya, under-the-weather scientist by day, over-the-top superhero by night, and badass single mom 24/7. Deadpool action and Fleabag comedy collide when Maya activates her freakish superpowers to take on a secret sect of human traffickers. Mature readers only! Comedy and chaos await in the first of three 40-page issues by the glamorous artist of Horde, LEILA LEIZ!

Discover the true genius behind history's greatest "madmen". From Dr. Frankenstein to Dr. Jekyll, the image of the mad scientist surrounded by glass vials, copper coils, and electrical apparatus remains a popular fixture. In films and fiction, he's comically misguided, tragically misunderstood, or pathologically evil. But the origins of this stereotype can be found in the sometimes-eccentric real life men and women who challenged our view of the world and broke new scientific frontiers. They Called Me Mad recounts the amazing true stories of such historical luminaries as Archimedes, the calculator of pi and creator of the world's first death ray; Isaac Newton, the world's first great scientist and the last great alchemist; Nikola Tesla, who built the precursors of robots, fluorescent lighting, and particle beam weapons before the turn of the twentieth century-and more.

Provides information about more than two hundred pets of the DC Comics superheroes and villains.

Son of Classics and Comics presents thirteen original studies of representations of the ancient world in the medium of comics. Building on the foundation established by their groundbreaking Classics and Comics, Kovacs and Marshall have gathered a wide range of studies with a new, global perspective.

Madness Unchained is a comprehensive introduction to and study of Virgil's Aeneid. The book moves through Virgil's epic scene by scene and offers a detailed explication of not only all the major (and many minor) difficulties of interpretation, but also provides a cohesive argument that explores Virgil's point in writing this epic of Roman mythology and Augustan propaganda: the role of fury or madness in Rome's national identity. There have been other books that have attempted to present a complete guide to the Aeneid, but this is the first to address every episode in the poem, omitting nothing, and aiming itself at an audience that ranges from the Advanced Placement Virgil student in secondary school to the professional Virgilian and everyone in-between, both Latinists and the Latin-less. Individual chapters correspond to the books of the poem; unlike some volumes that prejudice the reader's interpretation of the work by rearranging the order of episodes in order to influence their impact on the audience, this book moves in the order Virgil intended, and also gives rather fuller exposition to the second half of the poem, Virgil's self-proclaimed 'greater work' (maius opus).