This Week’s Comics: Halloween’s Last Hurrah

Say goodbye to Halloween with some of the titles from this week’s new releases. Albatross Funnybooks collects the first volume of their all ages spooky series, Spookhouse. Arcana Studio releases Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom ahead of Shout! Factory’s animated film adaptation, while IDW Publishing reunites two 80s franchises for another action-packed crossover adventure with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ghostbusters 2.

The List:

ALBATROSS FUNNYBOOKS
Spookhouse Volume 1 TP, $17.99

ARCANA STUDIO
Howard Lovecraft And The Undersea Kingdom GN, $14.95

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS
Archie #25 (Cover A Audrey Mok), $3.99
World Of Archie Christmas Annual Digest #73, $6.99

BONGO COMICS
Simpsons Comics Explosion #4, $9.99

BOOM! STUDIOS
Adventure Time #70 (Cover A Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb), $3.99
Steven Universe Volume 2 Anti-Gravity GN, $14.99

CINEBOOK
Lucky Luke Volume 66 The Promised Land TP, $11.95

IDW PUBLISHING
Angry Birds Flight School HC, $12.99
Atomic Robo And The Spectre Of Tomorrow #1 (Cover A Scott Wegener), $3.99
DuckTales #2 (Cover A Marco Ghiglione), $3.99
My Little Pony Treasury Edition Ponies Of Darkwater (Cover A Andy Price), $9.99  **Weekly Pick**
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ghostbusters II #1 (Cover A Dan Schoening), $3.99

JOE BOOKS
Disney Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs The Story Of The Movie in Comics GN, $5.99
Disney Tangled The Story Of The Movie in Comics GN, $5.99
Disney The Lion King The Story Of The Movie in Comics GN, $5.99

PAPERCUTZ
Dracula Marries Frankenstein GN, $12.99  **Weekly Pick**
Sisters Volume 4 Selfie Awareness GN, $9.99

TITAN PUBLISHING GROUP
Doctor Who SDCC 2017 Convention Special (Cover A Alice X. Zhang), $10.00
Doctor Who The Lost Dimension Omega #1 (Cover A Alex Ronald), $3.99
Doctor Who The Lost Dimension Special #2 (Cover A Klebs Jr.), $3.99

The Picks:

My Little Pony Treasury Edition Ponies Of Darkwater – IDW Publishing releases an oversized collection of the storyline “Ponies of Darkwater.” Returning home from saving Equestria yet again, the Mane Six encounter a new hot springs. After relaxing in it’s water, the ponies turn into dark versions of themselves. Spike, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and Princess Luna, who has her own history with dealing with darkness, are all that stand between the Mane Six and the destruction of Ponyville. Fans of My Little Pony will treasure this new edition.

Dracula Marries Frankenstein GN – Papercutz releases a new Anne of Green Bagels story. Anne and her friends search for the ideal location to make a horror movie in suburban Megatown. They get lucky and strike a deal with Augusta Herringbone to film at her creepy castle-like home. But their film, Dracula Marries Frankenstein, sets off Augusta’s homophobia, and their film set is destroyed in a fire. Anne is undaunted, and pulls from the ashes forgiveness and understanding, a finished film, an underwater dream fulfilled, and a location for their next movie. This mix of chapter book and graphic novel tackles some serious issues while keeping it accessible to tweens.

Images © IDW Publishing and Papercutz respectively.

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