This Week’s Comics: Wild Lunch Witch

It’s Free Comic Book Day this weekend, so run, don’t walk to pick up some of this week’s new releases as well as sample some new titles. Amulet Books releases the fourth volume of the Misadventures of Salem Hyde, Dinosaur Dilemma. BOOM! Studios releases a special one-shot for Steven Universe featuring a very important person, Steven’s father, Greg Universe, and IDW Publishing has the second issue of the fashion-and-fame-filled new series Jem and the Holograms.

The List:

ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT
Princeless The Pirate Princess #4 (Of 4), $3.99

AMULET BOOKS
Misadventures Of Salem Hyde Volume 4 Dinosaur Dilemma HC, $14.95
Misadventures Of Salem Hyde Volume 4 Dinosaur Dilemma SC, $6.95

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS
Archie’s Funhouse Comics Double Digest #14, $4.99
Sonic Boom #7 (Erik Ly Insubordination Variant Cover), $3.99
Sonic Boom #7 (Jamal Peppers Regular Cover), $3.99

BOOM! STUDIOS
Steven Universe Greg Universe Special #1 (One Shot)(Cover A Ru Xu), $4.99

IDW PUBLISHING
Jem And The Holograms #2 (Cover A Sophie Campbell), $3.99
Jem And The Holograms #2 (Cover B Amy Mebberson), $3.99
Jem And The Holograms #2 (Cover C Amy Mebberson), $3.99
Jem And The Holograms #2 (Cover D Amy Mebberson), $3.99
Jem And The Holograms #2 (Cover E Amy Mebberson), $3.99
My Little Pony Fiendship Is Magic #5 (Of 5)(Queen Chrysalis)(Cover A Amy Mebberson), $3.99
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles New Animated Adventures #22 (Cover A Dario Brizuela), $3.99

JOE BOOKS
Disney’s Cinderella Cinestory TP, $14.99

MARVEL COMICS
Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man Web Warriors #6, $2.99

PAPERCUTZ
Lunch Witch Volume 1 GN, $14.99 **Weekly Pick**
Toto Trouble Volume 3 The Ace Of Jokers GN, $7.99

TOON BOOKS
Benjamin Bear In Brain Storms HC, $12.95
Orpheus In The Underworld HC, $16.95
We Dig Worms HC, $12.95
Wild Piano A Philemon Adventure GN, $16.95 **Weekly Pick**

TOON GRAPHIC
Lost In NYC A Subway Adventure HC, $16.95

The Picks:

Lunch Witch Volume 1 GN – Papercutz debuts a wicked good series. Grunhilda comes from a long line of witches and is skilled in cooking up potfuls of foul brew with her ancestors’ recipes and cauldron, but no one believes in magic anymore. The only job she can find that would suit her talents is lunch lady. Grunhilda delights in scaring the kids until she meets Madison, an outsider like her who doesn’t fit in. Madison needs help at school and at home, but helping people goes against everything Grunhilda believes as a witch. Will Grunhilda warm up to the girl, or will she turn her back on a kindred spirit? Kids of all ages will enjoy seeing the scary taken out of the lunch lady, while parents and teachers can use the Common Core Guide to tie it in to school.

Wild Piano A Philemon Adventure GN – Toon Books releases the second volume in the Philemon series. Philemon, a farm boy, fell down a well and ended up on the mysterious island of ‘A’. He barely escaped with his life, but he had to leave a friend behind. So he returns to the A-T-L-A-N-T-I-C to search for him. His journey will take him so deep into the letters that he may never see his farm again. But still he must press on through the surprises that await him on the mysterious island of ‘N’. Castaway on the Letter A was a strange, surreal, yet fun journey that captured kids’ imaginations. This second volume will no doubt do the same.

Images © Papercutz and Toon Books respectively.

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