This Week’s Comics: Going Ape for Sesame Street

It’s May Day! If that’s a call for help to relieve the kids’ boredom, then check out this week’s list of new comics! Archie Comics releases the next installment of their epic Sonic the Hedgehog and Megaman crossover with the next issue of Sonic the Hedgehog. BOOM! Studios releases a new issue of Garfield, and Lerner Publishing has two new volumes of the Little Prince. And if you see anything you like, be sure to stop by your local comic shop this weekend for Free Comic Book Day! May the 4th be with you!

The List:

AMP! COMICS FOR KIDS
Big Nate Game On TP, $9.99

APE ENTERTAINMENT
Croods Prequel Digest GN, $6.99  ^^AA Pick^^
Sesame Street I Is For Imagination #1 (Cover A Amy Mebberson), $3.99  ^^AA Pick^^
Sesame Street I Is For Imagination #1 (Cover B Amy Mebberson), $3.99
Sesame Street I Is For Imagination #1 (Cover C Amy Mebberson), $3.99
Sesame Street I Is For Imagination #1 (Cover D Amy Mebberson), $3.99
Sesame Street I Is For Imagination #1 (Cover E Amy Mebberson), $3.99

ARCHIE COMICS
Archie #643 (Archie Meets Glee Part 3)(Cover A Dan Parent), $2.99
Archie #643 (Archie Meets Glee Part 3)(Cover B Dan Parent), $2.99
Archie Double Digest #239, $3.99
Sonic The Hedgehog #248 (Matt Herms Regular Cover), $2.99
Sonic The Hedgehog #248 (Patrick Spaziante Variant Cover), $2.99

BONGO COMICS
Simpsons Illustrated #6, $3.99

BOOM! STUDIOS
Garfield #13 (Cover A Gary Barker), $3.99

DC COMICS
Scooby-Doo Where Are You #33, $2.99

IMAGE COMICS
Super Dinosaur #19, $2.99

LERNER PUBLISHING GROUP
Little Prince Volume 7 The Planet Of The Overhearers GN, $7.95
Little Prince Volume 8 The Planet Of The Tortoise Driver GN, $7.95

MARVEL COMICS
Marvel Universe The Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes Digest Volume 3 TP, $9.99

The Picks:

Sesame Street I Is For Imagination #1 – Ape Entertainment brings the best known children’s TV program to comics! Chasing the clouds away from one of the best known streets in the world, all your favorites, including Elmo, Big Bird, Grover, and the Cookie Monster come together in this first issue of Sesame Street. In this issue, Elmo decides he wants to become a superhero, but he doesn’t have any powers, so it’s Super Grover to the rescue! He teaches Elmo that he can have any super power he wants, because he already has the greatest power in the world – his imagination! For decades, kids around the world have grown up to the lessons and characters of Sesame Street. Now those characters have finally come to comics, bringing their educational messages hidden in fun stories that kids love. Parents and teachers of young kids should not miss this first issue.

Croods Prequel Digest GN – Ape Entertainment continues their relationship with Dreamworks with a prequel to their next family film. The Croods was released in March and is about a family of Neanderthal cavemen searching for a new home in a fictitious prehistoric era where fanciful creatures lived. This story is a prequel to the movie, telling about an adventure that happens to Grug, Ugga, Eep, Thunk, and Gran before they go on their adventure of a lifetime! Prequels are becoming the norm for comics instead of adaptations of films, and this is a perfect example. If you enjoyed the film or want to find out more before plunking down a load of bucks for the family, this is a good way to preview it.

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