This Week’s Comics: Mighty Friends

Need to hide from the heat of another scorching summer weekend? Pick up some cool comics to read in between even cooler SDCC announcements! Bongo Comics lets Lisa loose in the latest Simpson Comics #231. Lion Forge finishes their mini series for the 80s property Madballs, while Vertical Comics wallows in cuteness with the third volume of the Complete Chi’s Sweet Home.

The List:

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS
Betty And Veronica #1 (Cover A Adam Hughes), $3.99  **Weekly Pick**
Betty And Veronica Comics Double Digest #245, $4.99

BONGO COMICS
Simpsons Comics #231, $3.99

BOOM! STUDIOS
Lumberjanes #28 (Cover A Kat Leyh), $3.99
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #5 (Cover A Jamal Campbell), $3.99 **Weekly Pick**

CINEBOOK
Lucky Luke Volume 58 The Dalton’s Stash TP, $11.95

LION FORGE
Madballs #4 (Of 4)(Cover A Brad McGinty), $2.99

RANDOM HOUSE BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
DC Super Friends Supergirl Takes Off SC, $4.99

TITAN ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
Doctor Who The Ninth Doctor #4 (Cover E Dan Boultwood Doctor Who Day), $3.99

VERTICAL COMICS
Complete Chi’s Sweet Home Volume 3 TP, $24.95

The Picks:

Betty And Veronica #1 – The Archie reboots continue as Betty and Veronica return for their own series. Betty and Veronica are  the best of frenemies. They are usually fighting over Archie’s affections, but this time they have something else to argue over: Pops’ Chocklit Shoppe is being taken over by a huge coffee company, causing Betty and Veronica to go head-to-head over the issue. Can their friendship, and Riverdale in general, survive? The Archie reboots have been doing a good job of updating the Archie gang to 21st century sensibilities and have been just plain clever. This issue is worth it just for the introduction with Archie and Jughead—and Jughead’s dog!

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #5 – Boom Studios gives a peek into the past of Zack, the Black Power Ranger. Before Rita Repulsa approached Tommy to be the Green Ranger and fight for her against the other Power Rangers, she approached another Ranger-Zack! This one-shot features guest artists Thony Silas and Kyle Higgins, the team behind DC’s Batman Beyond 2.0. It’s a great look back at the Power Rangers before they are seen in the series.

Images © Archie Comics and Boom! Studios respectively.

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