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SUMMARY:Book Club: Deadly Class vol 1
DESCRIPTION:It’s 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. He has no money. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can’t focus in class\, thanks to his mind constantly drifting to the stunning girl in the front row and the Dag Nasty show he has tickets to. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin’s top assassin\, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins\, the class he’s failing is “Dismemberment 101\,” and his crush\, a member of the most notorious crime syndicate in Japan\, has a double-digit body count. \nWelcome to the most brutal high school on Earth\, where the world’s top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art. Killing is a craft. At Kings Dominion High School for the Deadly Arts\, the dagger in your back isn’t always metaphorical\, nor is your fellow classmates’ poison. \nJoin writer RICK REMENDER with rising star WESLEY CRAIG (Batman) and legendary colorist LEE LOUGHRIDGE (Fear Agent) to reminisce about the mid-1980s underground through the eyes of the most damaged and dangerous teenagers on Earth.
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LOCATION:Big Planet Comics of College Park\, 7315 Baltimore Ave\, College Park\, MD\, 20740\, US
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SUMMARY:Book Club: Blankets by Craig Thompson
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n \nBlankets is an autobiographical graphic novel by Craig Thompson\, published in 2003 by Top Shelf Productions. As a coming-of-age autobiography\, the book tells the story of Thompson’s childhood in an Evangelical Christian family\, his first love\, and his early adulthood. The book was widely acclaimed\, with Time magazine ranking it #1 in its 2003 Best Comics list\, and #8 in its Best Comics of the Decade.
URL:https://www.bigplanetcomics.com/event/book-club-blankets-by-craig-thompson
LOCATION:Big Planet Comics of College Park\, 7315 Baltimore Ave\, College Park\, MD\, 20740\, US
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SUMMARY:Book Club: Akira Vol. 1
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first meeting of our book club’s 2019 winter/spring season! This month we’re discussing Akira\, to celebrate catching up to the futuristic year in which it takes place. Some small snacks will be provided; having read the book is not required but not encouraged. Purchasing the book is also not required (feel free to borrow from the library or a friend!) but if you choose to purchase the book with us\, it is discounted 15% for the duration of our winter/spring 2019 season! (Through 4/18/19) \n  \n \nAkira is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo.  The work was published in the United States by Marvel Comics under their Epic Comics imprint\, becoming one of the first manga works to be translated in its entirety into English. Otomo’s art is considered outstanding\, and a watershed for both Otomo and the manga form. \nSet in a post-apocalyptic and futuristic Neo-Tokyo\, the manga focuses on the efforts of a teenaged biker gang leader Kaneda\, political activist Kei\, a trio of Espers\, and Neo-Tokyo’s military leader Colonel Shikishima to prevent Tetsuo\, Kaneda’s mentally-fractured childhood friend\, from using his unstable telekinetic abilities to ravage the city and awaken a mysterious individual with similar psychic abilities named “Akira”. Through this work\, Otomo uses conventions of the cyberpunk genre to detail a saga of political turmoil\, social isolation\, corruption\, and power. It is considered a landmark work in the cyberpunk genre\, credited with spawning the Japanese cyberpunk subgenre. An animated film adaptation  was released in 1988. \nAkira was instrumental in an upsurge of manga popularity outside Japan\, especially in United States as Epic Comics’ edition was colorized and coincided with the release of the film. It has won several awards\, including the Kodansha Manga and Harvey Awards\, and is named as being an important title in the French manga explosion.
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LOCATION:Big Planet Comics of College Park\, 7315 Baltimore Ave\, College Park\, MD\, 20740\, US
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