Best Selling Books by Paul Lee

Presents a history of comic books / graphic novels, an argument for valuing the genre / medium, and several chapters devoted to examining all subgenres of comics / graphic novels -- from cover.

Just grab your brush and start filling patterns! Don''t be afraid to go outside the box. Try to paint in your own way. Art is a constant search for inspiration and turning them into something extraordinary in the forge of your imagination! Good Luck and Have Fun!

A man and a woman are tragically kileld in a gang-related incident, and the man seeks out and haunts those who did it.

In the crimson flock book 2, the people of Hae Jae district have been getting sick recently. Perhaps it would be normal for a person here or there to get sick but everyone in a district and only in that district is concerning. Matthew Kim dispatches one of his teams to investigate the district to see what they will find.

Buffy''s emotions run high after the tragic loss of her mother, but she still fights. She struggles with blood-starved vamps from another dimension and swarms of green demon children with a penchant for nibbling on faces, and, as barriers between alternate realities erode, nightmare versions of friends and long-dead enemies must be dealt with. Then Buffy''s own death -- having sacrificed herself for Dawn -- takes a toll on the Scoobies, as they deal with demons and crazed forest creatures in a tale by Amber Benson ("Tara") and Christopher Golden. When Buffy is restored to life, she undertakes a secret mission with Angel, and all the loose ends are tied up with Buffy''s trip to hell, bringing an end to an amazing four-year run of Buffy comics. * The Buffy Omnibus books collect the earliest Buffy comics and are an excellent precursor to Joss Whedon''s Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight series. * "There''s plenty of humor and action here. Lots of strange (and strangely fun) violence. And, for Slayer fans, Omnibus is an opportunity to run down memory lane and relive those early, exciting Slayer days." -- comicbookbin.com

The mechanisms of asymmetric induction involving the lithiation and substitution of N-benzyl-N-Boc-N-p-methodically amine and N-benzyl-N-Boc-N-3-chloropropyl amine were investigated and are reported here. These two substrates undergo deprotonation with butyllithium in the presence of the chiral ligand (${-}$)-sparteine to generate their benzyllithium intermediates, which are subsequently reacted with electrophiles to yield highly enantioenriched products. For N-benzyl-N-Boc-N-3-chloropropyl amine, the electrophile is a part of the substrate, so the reaction is an intramolecular cyclization. The enantioselectivity in these reactions can arise either during or after the deprotonation of the substrate. These two limiting possible mechanisms were distinguished by comparing the results of the reaction following the replacement in the substrate of one of the two prochiral, benzylic hydrogens for a deuterium. For both of these reactions, the enantioselectivity was shown to occur during the deprotonation of the substrate. The intramolecular cyclization of N-benzyl-N-Boc-N-3-chloropropyl amine was further studied by negating the possibility of asymmetric substitution. A racemic sample of the benzyllithium intermediate was generated from its racemic stannyl analog within the presence of (${-}$)-sparteine, which cyclized revealingly into racemic product. Moreover, the benzyllithium intermediate generated from lithiation of N-benzyl-N-Boc-N-p-methoxyphenyl amine was shown to be configurationally stable by evaluating the dependence of the enantioselectivity upon the extent of the substitution step. Other observations involving the $alpha$-deuterated analog were consistent with a mechanism where the lithiated intermediate accelerates the rate of the lithiation. The configurational stability of N-($alpha$-lithio-$alpha$-methyl) benzyl-N-Boc-N-p-methoxyphenyl amine, a tertiary benzyllithium derivative, was also tested by generating an enantiopure sample of this benzyllithium intermediate from its enantiopure stannyl analog. This tertiary benzyllithium derivative was determined to be configurationally stable. Additional benzyllithium species were tested for their configurational stability by reacting them with chiral electrophiles and comparing the diastereoselectivities of the reaction. The results with N,N-diisopropyl-o-$(1prime$-lithioethyl)benzamide were consistent with a configurationally labile species. The tests on N,3-dilithio-N-methyl-3-phenylpropanamide and o-ethyl-N,$alpha$-dilithio-N-pivaloylaniline led to inconclusive results.