Barbarella : Barbarella and The Wrath of the Minute-Eater: Slightly Oversized Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (670 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594651043 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Use The Zoom Feature with the Kindle Fire" according to James Elfers. I bought the Kindle edition. Please be aware that to read it on a Kindle Fire you must use the zoom feature for EVERY page. It is a bit cumbersome but workable. With the zoom feature you can highlight the images and the text In this sequel to the first volume Barbarella is the owner/manager of an intergalactic circus. A alien human-like being with gills like a fish soon leads the circus to a distant part of the galaxy, intent upon some major chicanery. How the very sexy Barbarella saves the day is the focus of the narrative. At regular points our heroine ends up nude or in "sexy time."Unlike the film version. Great for Fans of both the Comic and the 1968 Film Tim As much as I like the 1968 movie of Barbarella, I like the comic books more. The character is much more dynamic in the comic and a lot less naive than the film character, but it's still basically "funny, pretty, cartoon lady, with a bad temper and a good heart, has adventures in outer space". The surreal, campy, 1960's Sci-Fi aspect of it I think is fun, and while it's not exactly Shakespeare, there are sweet little morality tales that are mixed in among the sex jokes. So if you're unfamiliar with the comic book version of Barbarella that's more or less what you can expect.I think this is a nice collection o. A sharp new translation Robert Fisher Some years ago, I bought an early printing of the Grove Press edition of Barbarella from 1966, translated by Richard Seaver. Now, there is a new translation by Kelly Sue DeConnick (note: not having a Kindle, I ordered a print version). I decided to do a little experiment; I read the two volumes at the same time, comparing translations. In some panels, Seaver and DeConnick came up with identical phrasing, but judging overall, I would have to say that DeConnick's is the sharper version. That said, the older Grove edition is a bit larger and has nice two-tone coloring that this new edition lacks. As for the sec
There, she has a series of adventurous, and bawdy, encounters with a variety of strange beings, from robots to angels. into a complex battle for the planet Spectra.Featuring a brand new, contemporary English-language adaptation by writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Marvel’s "Captain Marvel," "Avengers Assemble," Dark Horse’s "Ghost," Image’s "Pretty Deadly").. In Book 1 (first collected in 1964), Barbarella’s spaceship breaks down, she finds herself trapped on the planet Lythion. In Book 2, "Wrath of the Minute-Eater" (first published in 1974), Barbarella’s traveling Circus Delirium enters another dimension, led by the mysterious and alluring aquaman, Narval, whose machinations catapult Barbarella & Co