Ross, Alex

"It's a rainy night in Manhattan and not a creature is stirring except for--Ben Grimm. When an intruder suddenly appears inside the Baxter Building, the Fantastic Four--Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards), the Invisible Woman (Susan Storm Richards), the Human Torch (Johnny Storm), and the Thing (Ben Grimm)--find themselves surrounded by a swarm of invading parasites. These carrion creatures composed of Negative Energy come to Earth using a human host as a delivery system. But for what purpose? And who is behind this untimely invasion? The Fantastic Four have no choice but to journey into the Negative Zone, an alien universe composed entirely of anti-matter, risking not just their own lives but the fate of the cosmos!"--Provided by publisher.

Contains no. 0-7 of "Project Superpowers" in which heroes, who have been captured after World War II, are released to fight injustice, greed, and terrorism; and includes the Fighting Yank's war journals, a cover gallery, sketches, and reference art.

A collection of comic strips featuring the members of the Justice League of America.

Superman attempts to alleviate world hunger by delivering food to starving people and countries, but he soon realizes the job is too big for one man--even a Superman.

Presents the secrets of "Earth X" with more than one hundred pages of sketches, background notes, insights, and development material for future issues.

The members of the Justice League of America rush to subdue a unique enemy that has arrived on Earth in the form of a disease that spreads quickly, leaving victims alive but unable to move or speak.

The scandal over modern music has not died--while paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for millions of dollars, works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences. Yet the influence of modern music can be felt everywhere. Avant-garde sounds populate the soundtracks of Hollywood thrillers. Minimalist music has had a huge effect on rock, pop, and dance music from the Velvet Underground onward. Music critic Alex Ross shines a bright light on this secret world, taking us from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties, from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to New York in the sixties and seventies. We follow the rise of mass culture and mass politics, of new technologies, of hot and cold wars, of experiments, revolutions, and riots. The end result is not so much a history of twentieth-century music as a history of the twentieth century through its music.--From publisher description.

A collection of the author's best "New Yorker" essays on music covers everything from classical music to the top pop hits and includes a previously unpublished essay that retells hundreds of years of music history, from the Renaissance to Led Zeppelin, through a few iconic bass lines.