X-Men noir / writer, Fred Van Lente ; art, Dennis Calero ; letters, Blambot's, Nate Piekos.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Marvel Pub., c2009.Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 27 cmISBN:- 078513946X
- 9780785139461
- Comic books, strips, etc
- Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States
- Corruption -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Murder -- Investigation -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Noir fiction
- Police -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Reformatories -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Science fiction comic books, strips, etc
- Superhero comic books, strips, etc
- X-Men (Fictitious characters) -- Comic books, strips, etc
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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YA Book | Main Library | YA Graphic Novel | Van Lente, Fred | Available | 33111006223495 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"The coroner's men flipped the redheaded corpse over so Dukes and Magnus from Homicide could get a better look at her. 'Better' being a relative term in this case, with the claw marks that slashed her face into a featureless, bloody mask and turned her guts into a butcher shop explosion. "But the tattoo - the simple, encircled 'X' above the left shoulder blade - remained intact, and Dukes pointed it out with the toe of his wingtip once Peter the rookie was done heaving up lunch. "'See this ink?' he said. 'Means she did time at this reform school upstate, run by this shrink, Xavier...'" Collects X-Men Noir #1-4.
"Contains material originally published in magazine form as X-Men #1-4"
"The coroner's men flipped the redheaded corpse over so Dukes and Magnus from Homicide could get a better look at her. 'Better' being a relative term in this case, with the claw marks that slashed her face into a featureless, bloody mask and turned her guts into a butcher shop explosion. But the tattoo -- the simple, encircled 'X' above the left shoulder blade -- remained intact, and Dukes pointed it out with the toe of his wingtip once Peter the rookie was done heaving up lunch. See this ink?' he said. 'Means she did time at this reform school upstate, run by this shrink, Xavier" -- from publisher's web site.
"Parental advisory" -- dust jacket.