09/25/2020 12:00:00 AMFaculty and alumni explore comics, baseball and immigration in their new books. CultureBooksBooksstory Monstrous Women in Comics   Samantha Langsdale, co-editor The anthology examines the ways women are made monstrous in popular culture, with Langsdale, a senior lecturer in philosophy and religion, acting as the editor of this collection of intersectional analyses of comics.                     Gentle Black Giants: A History of Negro Leaguers in Japan   Bill Staples Jr. ('94), co-author The journalism alum details the history of the Philadelphia Royal Giants and their Trans-Pacific barnstorming tours to Asia during the 1920s and 1930s.                     Eclipse of Dreams: The Undocumented-Led Struggle for Freedom   Mariela Nuñez-Janes and Fidel Castro Rodriguez ('12), co-editors Nuñez-Janes, associate professor of anthropology, and Rodriguez tell the stories of undocumented activists' responses after the DREAM Act failed.