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Little Brown and Company
October 2010
On Sale: October 18, 2010
80 pages
ISBN: 0316098825
EAN: 9780316098823
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MAIN STREET, USA-Against incredible odds,
jobless crusader UNEMPLOYED MAN and his sidekick PLAN B
embark on a heroic search for work-and quickly find
themselves waging an epic battle against The Just Us League,
a dastardly group of supervillains including THE HUMAN
RESOURCE, TOXIC DEBT BLOB, PINK SLIP and THE INVISIBLE
HAND.
Experience this action-packed story in THE
ADVENTURES OF UNEMPLOYED MAN-a fearless, brilliant, and
provocative book that ASTOUNDS with incisive wit and AMAZES
with stunning insights into the desperate situation so many
heroes find themselves in today.
A new supergroup of
down-but-not-out heroes has emerged from the economic
crisis, including perpetual grad student MASTER OF DEGREES,
fix-it-with-tape DUCTO, pain-shrinking therapist GOOD GRIEF,
checkbook unbalancer ZILCH, shadow worker FANTASMA, and
WONDER MOTHER, who built her invisible jet from pieces of
the glass ceiling.
These heroes have enlisted the
help of Erich Origen and Gan Golan, the dynamic duo behind
the New York Times bestseller GOODNIGHT BUSH. Together they
tell the story of our intrepid heroes' climactic clash with
the self-interested villains who dwell in the Hall of Just
Us, devising sinister plots that threaten the entire
world.
This richly illustrated book is a parody of
classic superhero comics from the Golden Age to the present
day-and a brilliant dissection of our current economic
meltdown. It features dazzling artwork by such comics
legends as Ramona Fradon, Rick Veitch, Michael Netzer, Terry
Beatty, Josef Rubenstein, Benton Jew, Thomas Yeates, Shawn
Martinbrough, Clem Robins, Tom Orzechowski, Thomas Mauer and
Lee Loughridge.
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