Ebook {Epub PDF} Count Geigers Blues by Michael Bishop

 · Count Geiger's Blues by Michael Bishop | Editorial Reviews. Paperback. Paperback. $ NOOK Book. $ $ View All Available Formats Editions. Ship This Item — Qualifies for Free Shipping Buy Online, Pick up in Store Check Availability at Nearby Stores. Michael Bishop's Count Geiger Blues, a novel of intellectual heft and self-spoofing kitsch, is a take on superheroes like no other: a rollicking foray into high and low culture that mines the vicissitudes and tragedies of everyday life for serious belly laughs and bona fide heartbreak.4/5(4). Count Geiger's Blues also goes beyond humor – well beyond, in its remarkable closing chapters. But they build on all that has gone before. But they build on all that has gone before. In unleashing a startling talent for comedy and a wide-ranging knowledge of pop culture in both its absurdity and its splendor, Michael Bishop has written his.

Count Geiger's Blues, however, bears closer resemblance to Alan Moore and Dave Gribbons' innovative Watchmen series than to superman. In the end, this spoof and loving embrace of the superhero genre proves too well written, too intellectual, and too sensitive to its characters to grant Bishop the audience that has eluded him for so long. Close Encounters with the Deity. By: Bishop, Michael Price: $ Publisher: Atlanta, Peachtree Publishers: Edition: First Edition; First Printing Seller ID: Binding: hardcover Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. _ Count Geiger's Blues by Michael Bishop (Tor/Orb, Jul '94) _ Dream Baby by Bruce McAllister (Tor/Orb, Aug '94) _ The Oak Above the Kings by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (HarperCollins UK, Aug '94) * Black Thorn, White Rose ed. by Ellen Datlow Terri Windling (Morrow AvoNova, Sep '94).

But then Count Geiger's creator, blaming Xavier's hostile column for his firing by UC, shoots Xavier--who, far from ending up dead, finds he can expel the bullets and heal right up! Days later, he defeats four would-be subway muggers in comic-book style: somehow, he has become Count Geiger!. Count Geiger's Blues follows the adventures of Xavier Thaxton, arts editor at a major Southern daily called the Salonika Urbanite. Thaxton thinks himself a superior man. His aesthetic standards are so lofty that he regards superheroes as pop-culture cock-and-bull, rock music as audible rubbish. Table of Contents Michael Bishop’s Blues: An Introduction to Count Geiger’s Blues PROLOGUE: “Regulated Medical Waste” 1: A Superior Man 2: Aye, and Salonika 3: A Dream of Plant.