“Comic book fans will fall hard for this delightfully daffy guidebook… Exuberant, optimistic, and just plain fun, How to Take Over the World will both surprise and delight.” — Esquire. A book this informative should be a crime! Taking over the world is a lot of work. Any supervillain is bound to have questions: What’s the perfect location for a floating secret base? What zany heist will fund my wildly ambitious plans? How do I control the weather, destroy the internet, and never, ever die? Bestselling author and award-winning comics writer Ryan North has the answers. In this introduction to the science of comic-book supervillainy, he details a number of outlandish villainous schemes that harness the potential of today’s most advanced technologies. Picking up where How to Invent Everything left off, his explanations are as fun and elucidating as they are completely absurd…
Publisher: Riverhead Books (March 15, 2022); Pages: 416 pages; ISBN-10: 059319201X; ISBN-13: 978-0593192016; ASIN: B097XS5D6X
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Author’s biography: Ryan North is the (New York Times bestselling, Eisner-award winning) creator of Dinosaur Comics, the co-editor of the Machine of Death series, and the author of both “To Be or Not To Be” and “Romeo and/or Juliet”: the choose-your-own-path versions of Shakespeare’s plays. He also wrote “The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl” for Marvel Comics, who you might know from their movies about an iron man. His non-fiction work includes “How To Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveller” and the upcoming “How to Take Over the World”. He lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife Jenn and his dog Noam Chompsky.