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Steven Lee, fifteen-year-old leader of the Zodiac team, wields the awesome power of the Tiger—but now he's missing. So when a high-speed train runs amok in France, it's up to the other members of the team to stop it: Liam, the powerful Ram; Duane, the Pig, who controls information; and Roxanne, the fierce Rooster, with her unstoppable sonic power. But can they trust their new member—the former villain called Ox?.

“All work is political. That’s the line in issue 1 that really stood out to me because it’s so true right now. HIGHBALL is the story of a man who drinks to succeed. There’s some great gags about drinking in HIGHBALL, but in a lot of ways this is a story about the hangover of late stage capitalism.” - Fred Harper (Artist) Meet Highball, ace pilot of the Earth Space Corp. He’s the best shot in the galaxy, except for one big problem: he can only hit the target when he’s dead drunk In the far future, Earth’s finest pilot, call-sign HIGHBALL, finds himself caught between two alien races: the arrogant, cerebral Mentok and the fierce, birdlike Q’k’q’rr’kkk. In his one-man Byter ship, Highball must defuse an alien bomb and survive against a vicious enemy. But Highball has a deadly weakness: He can only hit the target when he’s stone drunk. In his quest to save the galaxy, Highball stumbles headfirst into obstacles such as nefarious space enemies, fellow pilots, the maddening bureaucracy of Space Corp—and, of course, his own shameful inadequacies! Highball collects all 5 issues of the comic book series written by Stuart Moore (Captain Ginger) with art by Fred Harper (Snelson: Comedy is Dyring) and colors by Lee Loughridge.

The mind-bending universe of horror master Thomas Ligotti awaits in another graphic adaptation of his haunting work. Enter a sphere where bizarre gas station carnivals serve as the first stop on the road to oblivion, a malevolent puppet steals people's identities, a deranged chemist engages in horrific experiments, and nameless beings skulk about in a stone tower, waiting to envelop the unsuspecting into the nebulous reaches of unreality. Ligotti's world is a thoroughly modern one where both identity and reality are fleeting, and nothing is truly as it appears to be. Four more of Ligotti's arresting tales are adapted into fine graphic literature by famed creators Stuart Moore, Joe Harris, Vasilis Lolos (The Last Call), Bill Sienkiewicz (Elektra: Assassin), Toby Cypress (Killing Girl), and Nick Stakal (Criminal Macabre: My Demon Baby), featuring all-new introductions to each story by Thomas Ligotti.

It’s a heavy-metal battle royale when Maxwell—head of the Vanguard organization with the evil powers of the Dragon Zodiac—sends an army of robots against Steven Lee, the teenaged Tiger, and his team. Using their new and mysterious powers of the ancient Zodiac, Steven and his teammates must work together like never before to defeat the robotic invaders!

Bestselling writers Gail Simone (Red Sonja) and Mark Waid (History of the Marvel Universe) are joining AHOY Comics Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer, Second Coming writer Mark Russell, and Captain Ginger writer Stuart Moore to write world-shattering, stand-alone stories all collected in The Wrong Earth: The One-Shots. The Wrong Earth: One-Shots include: THE WRONG EARTH: TRAPPED ON TEEN PLANET from writer Gail Simone, artist Bill Morrison, Walter Geovani, and Rob Lean with colors by Andy Troy. Grim-and-gritty vigilante Dragonfly whisked to an Earth of teenagers, malt shops, love triangles, and nonstop jokes. Will they win him over—or will his violent methods infect their world? THE WRONG EARTH: FAME & FORTUNE from writer Mark Russell abd artist Michael Montenat. This story from the writer of Billionaire Island provides a satirical look at two different versions of Richard Fame and how, despite the best and worst intentions, huge gobs of money determine their own results. THE WRONG EARTH: PURPLE from writer Stuart Moore and artist Fred Harper. This one-shot introduces Earth-Kappa, a dark but glossy world of big hair, shoulder pads, Wall Street traders, rubber super-suits, and funk music. Get the funk up! THE WRONG EARTH: CONFIDENCE MEN by writer Mark Waid and artist Leonard Kirk. It’s the tale of two sidekicks! On campy Earth-Alpha, circumstances force kid sidekick Stinger to become Dragonflyman's mentor! On gritty Earth-Omega, Dragonfly and Stinger go to war—against each other! THE WRONG EARTH: MEAT from writer Tom Peyer and artist Greg Scott. On campy Earth-Alpha, Dragonflyman and Stinger follow clues to foil the beef-themed crimes of Dr. Meat. On gritty Earth Omega, a tragedy compels Dragonfly to imprison a criminal in an abandoned slaughterhouse—just to have someone to talk to.

The optimization, kinetic investigation, or scale-up of a reaction often requires significant time and materials. Silicon microreactor systems have been shown advantageous for studying chemical reactions due to their small volume, rapid mixing, tight temperature control, large range of operating conditions, and increased safety. The primary goal of this thesis is to expand the capabilities of automated microreactor systems to increase their scope and efficiency. An automated optimization platform is built utilizing continuous inline IR analysis at the reactor exit, and a Paal-Knorr reaction is chosen as the first example chemistry. This reaction, where both the first and second reaction steps affect the overall rate, leads to a more complex conversion profile. A steepest descent algorithm is first used to optimize conversion and production rates. The steepest descent algorithm tends to move slowly up the production rate ridge, significantly reducing efficiency. This issue is overcome by using a Fletcher-Reeves conjugate gradient method, which finds the constrained optimum in much fewer experiments. The conjugate gradient algorithm is then further improved upon by incorporating a hybrid Armijo line search and bisection contraction method. However, the conversion is only about 40% at the maximum in production rate. A further optimization is performed using a quadratic loss function to penalize conversions of less than 85%. This optimization of production rate led to an optimum at higher residence time, where a conversion of 81% is achieved. In the conventional view of reaction analysis, batch reactions are thought to be significantly more efficient in generating time-course reaction data than flow reactions, which are generally limited to steady-state studies. By taking advantage of the low dispersion in microreactors, successive fluid elements of the reactor may be treated as separate batch reactors. By continuously manipulating the reaction flow rate and tracking the total reaction time of each fluid element, time-course data analogous to that conventionally derived from batch reactors are generated and shown to be in agreement with steady-state results. Palladium-catalyzed carbonylation and CN-coupling reactions are used extensively in laboratory synthesis and industrial processes. The primary reaction studied involves the coupling of bromobenzene and morpholene with the addition of one or two carbonyl groups. The dependence of reaction conversion and selectivity on temperature, CO pressure, and Pd concentration are investigated using GC and IR analysis. A temperature ramp method is employed to rapidly investigate temperature effects on reaction rate and selectivity. The experiments reveal a change in the rate determining step at approximately 120 °C and corresponded well with GC data taken at several setpoints. In addition, the activation energy of the lower temperature regime as determined by this IR analysis is found to be very similar to that found by GC analysis, the experiments for which took significantly longer both to perform and analyze. Furthermore, the data collected from these experiments are used to fit a kinetic model. Multicomponent reactions (MCRs) are important to drug discovery by affording complex products in only a single step. By linking two of these MCRs, a Petasis boronic acid-Mannich reaction and an Ugi reaction, six different components could be incorporated in a relatively short time. The kinetics of each reaction are investigated with online UPLC analysis, allowing for quantification of a number of reaction components, including monitoring the formation of side products that were unknown prior to experimentation. A simple microcalorimeter is built using thermoelectric elements and a silicon microreactor to experimentally determine the heats of reaction during flow to allow for understanding the heat transfer needs for scale up. The result from the nitration of benzene, which has a heat of reaction of -117 kJ/mol, is -118.6 +/- 2.4 kJ/mol. The experimentally determined values are close to the known values; however, there is significant noise in the output during the reaction due to the two-phase nature of the reaction. The Paal-Knorr reaction is further investigated to determine the limits of sensitivity of the microcalorimetry system. A continuous concentration ramp experiment is performed with online IR analysis, enabling the thermoelectric output to be adjusted for reaction rate to determine the sensitivity to the heat of reaction. Below approximately 2 M, the sensitivity decreases rapidly, largely due to noise in the temperature control and concentration. To attempt to correct for the former, a calorimetry system with larger thermal mass is constructed and shown to decrease the sensitivity limit to 1 M, corresponding to a heat flow of approximately 0.05 W.

Continuing their popular ART OF series of movie tie-in books, Marvel presents its latest blockbuster achievement! Featuring exclusive concept artwork, behind-the-scenes photographs, production stills, and in-depth interviews with the cast and crew, THE ART OF THOR: THE DARK WORLD provides an insider's look into the making of the highly anticipated film directed by Alan Taylor and starring Chris Hemsworth!

It's a heavy-metal battle royale when Maxwell-head of the Vanguard organization with the evil powers of the Dragon Zodiac-sends an army of robots against Steven Lee, the teenaged Tiger, and his team. Using their new and mysterious powers of the ancie

Star Trek: The Stardate Collection continues to collect the many comic-book iterations of Trek "as they happened"... by stardate! Helmed by Trek experts Scott and David Tipton, and featuring special commentary, creator interviews, and more, Volume 2 completes the early voyages of the Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, and wraps up with two lost adventures from Pike's career.

Quand douze superpouvoirs sont lâchés sur le monde, un jeune américain du nom de Steven se trouve embarqué dans une épique course-poursuite. Il aura à maîtriser d'étranges pouvoirs, semer de dangereux mercenaires, et percer le mystère du Zodiac...