Research Catalog

Title

The death-ray / [by Daniel Clowes].

Author

Clowes, Daniel

Publication

Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Farrar, Straus and Giroux ; Vancouver, BC : Distributed in Canada by Raincoast Books, 2011.

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Description

40 p. : chiefly col. ill.; 32 cm.

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

• Teenagers > Comic books, strips, etc
• Superheroes > Comic books, strips, etc
• High schools > Comic books, strips, etc
• Nineteen seventies > Comic books, strips, etc

Genre/Form

• Fantasy comic books, strips, etc.
• Comics (Graphic works)
• Graphic novels

Note

• The story originally appeared in Eightball #23, Fantagraphics, Spring 2004.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Andy 2004 -- The origin of Andy -- What do you think of Andy? -- Louie at home -- Andy's world -- Dear Dusty -- Cigarette? -- Incredible -- The next day -- The origin of the death ray -- Baseball -- The adventures of the death ray -- Andy -- The further adventures of the death ray -- On patrol -- Target practice -- Sonny -- Andy's dream -- Sonny and Theresa -- The death ray and Louie -- Andy again -- Stoob in, The test -- Sonny's lament -- The unthinkable -- Dear Dusty (again) -- Louie in love -- Andy, Louie -- The last straw -- 26 years later -- The united states of Andy -- Why did Andy destroy you? -- What do you think of Andy (again)? -- Choose your own adventure.

ISBN

• 9781770460515
• 1770460519

OCLC

• 756785527
• SCSB-11300018

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library