Who can save us now?
Subtitle: brand-new superheroes and their amazing (short) stories
By: edited by Owen King and John McNally ; [illustrations by Chris Burnham].
Contributors: King, Owen.; McNally, John, 1965-; Burnham, Chris, 1977-
Edition: Free Press trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9781416566441
Subjects: Superheroes -- Fiction; Short stories, American -- 21st century
Genres: Fiction.
Description: With mutations stranger than the X-Men and with even more baggage than the Hulk, this next generation of superheroes is a far cry from your run-of-the-mill caped crusader.
Table of contents: title: Girl reporter / Stephanie Harrell; title: The oversoul / Graham Joyce; title: Nate Pinckney-Alderson, superhero / Elizabeth Crane; title: The horses are loose / Cary Holladay; title: The Quick Stop 5 / Sam Weller; title: Remains of the night / John McNally; title: The Pentecostal Home for Flying Children / Will Clarke; title: The meerkat / Owen King; title: When the heroes came to town / Michael Czyzniejewski; title: The thirteenth egg / Scott Snyder; title: In cretaceous seas / Jim Shepard; title: Roe #5 / Richard Dooling; title: The snipper / Noria Jablonski; title: Man oh man; title: it's Mamma Man / George Singleton; title: My interview with the Avenger / Tom Bissell; title: The rememberer / J. Robert Lennon; title: The Sisters of St. Misery / Lauren Grodstein; title: Mr. Big Deal / Sean Doolittle; title: The somewhat super / David Yoo; title: Bad Karma Girl wins at bingo / Kelly Braffet; title: League of Justice (Philadelphia division) / Jennifer Weiner; title: The lives of ordinary superheroes / David Haynes.