Title: The death-ray /
Authors: Clowes, Daniel
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly ; Distributed in the USA by Farrar, Straus and Giroux ; Distributed in Canada by Raincoast Books,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Teenagers Comic books, strips, etc.; Superheroes Comic books, strips, etc.; High schools Comic books, strips, etc.; Nineteen seventies Comic books, strips, etc.
Abstract: 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.