Features Tank girl, the beer-swilling, chain-smoking, kangaroo-worrying lunatic as she 'bumps' her way through an utterly bizarre escapade. Join everybody's favorite beer-swilling, chain-smoking, kangaroo-worrying lunatic as she 'bumps' her way through another utterly bizarre escapade. And this time she's pregnant...yes, pregnant! How will our manic heroine cope with looming motherhood? The threat of rampaging hormones, the spectre of varicose veins? What will the baby look like, if it's Booga's? And what exactly does this all have to do with the followers of the Blood God Baal? Add to that the small matter of impending Armageddon (thanks to a meteorite headed straight for Earth!) and it's no wonder this book was once billed as the final slice of Tank Girl's lunatic adventures.

The 34th album chronicling the much-loved adventures of Asterix and friends. A collection of 12 new stories - all linked by the theme of Asterix's anniversary celebration.

Game designers, authors, artists, and scholars discuss how roles are played and how stories are created in role-playing games, board games, computer games, interactive fictions, massively multiplayer games, improvisational theater, and other playable media. Games and other playable forms, from interactive fictions to improvisational theater, involve role playing and story-something played and something told. In Second Person, game designers, authors, artists, and scholars examine the different ways in which these two elements work together in tabletop role-playing games (RPGs), computer games, board games, card games, electronic literature, political simulations, locative media, massively multiplayer games, and other forms that invite and structure play. Second Person-so called because in these games and playable media it is you who plays the roles, you for whom the story is being told-first considers tabletop games ranging from Dungeons & Dragons and other RPGs with an explicit social component to Kim Newman's Choose Your Own Adventure-style novel Life's Lottery and its more traditional author-reader interaction. Contributors then examine computer-based playable structures that are designed for solo interaction-for the singular you -including the mainstream hit Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and the genre-defining independent production Facade. Finally, contributors look at the intersection of the social spaces of play and the real world, considering, among other topics, the virtual communities of such Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) as World of Warcraft and the political uses of digital gaming and role-playing techniques (as in The Howard Dean for Iowa Game, the first U.S. presidential campaign game). In engaging essays that range in tone from the informal to the technical, these writers offer a variety of approaches for the examination of an emerging field that includes works as diverse as George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards series and the classic Infocom game Planetfall. Appendixes contain three fully-playable tabletop RPGs that demonstrate some of the variations possible in the form.

Meet Babymouse--the spunky mouse beloved by young readers for more than a decade! Babymouse and her best friend, Wilson, are ready to race! Will they be the first to cross the finish line? This groundbreaking young graphic novel series, full of humor and fun, is a bestseller that’s sold more than three million copies! "Move over, Superman, here comes Babymouse!"—The Chicago Sun-Times Babymouse's big dreams of becoming a race car driver come true when she and her best pal, Wilson, enter the Race of the Century (or at least the school year). But will she and Wilson crash and burn? Or will they cruise to the Winners' Circle? Find out in Babymouse Burns Rubber! DON'T MISS The BIG Adventures of Babymouse: Once Upon a Messy Whisker, the newest, brightest, and BIGGER THAN EVER graphic novel from BABYMOUSE!

"Cyanide and Happiness" collects episodes of the hilarious, dark, and exceedingly irreverent Web-based comic of the same name.

Contains the buds of many of Biskup's recurring characters, themes, and color theories. This volume contains the first one hundred in the series of five hundred business card-sized paintings, reproduced at actual size.