This Week’s Comics: Ghosts at the Museum

A new year means plenty of new releases on this week’s list. BOOM! Studios continues the adventures of Mech Cadet Yu as the series becomes an ongoing with issue #5. Lion Forge releases a new fantasy series with Dream of the Butterfly Volume 1 Rabbits of the Moon, while Papercutz debuts a new series of graphic novels based on the Hotel Transylvania movie series.

The List:

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS
Archie #27 (Cover A Audrey Mok), $3.99
Archies #4 (Cover A Greg Smallwood), $3.99
World Of Archie Jumbo Comics Digest #75, $6.99

BOOM! STUDIOS
Adventure Time Regular Show #6 (Of 6)(Cover A Phil Murphy), $3.99
Mech Cadet Yu #5 (Cover A Takeshi Miyaza), $3.99
Over The Garden Wall Volume 3 TP, $14.99
Rocko’s Modern Life #2 (Cover A Jorge Monlongo), $3.99

CHARMZ
Ghost Friends Forever Volume 1 GN, $9.99 **Weekly Pick**

DC COMICS
Scooby-Doo Where Are You #89, $2.99

HENRY HOLT
Hammy And Gerbee Volume 1 Mummies At The Museum GN, $12.99 **Weekly Pick**

IDW PUBLISHING
Jem And The Holograms Infinite TP, $19.99
Star Wars Adventures Forces Of Destiny Rey #1 (Cover A Arianna Florean), $3.99

LION FORGE
Dream Of The Butterfly Volume 1 Rabbits Of The Moon GN, $12.99

MARVEL COMICS
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #28, $3.99

PAPERCUTZ
Hotel Transylvania Volume 1 Kakieland Katastrophe GN, $7.99

TITAN PUBLISHING GROUP
Doctor Who The Eleventh Doctor Year Three #13 (Cover A Blair Shedd), $3.99

UNITED PLANKTON PICTURES
SpongeBob Comics #76, $3.99

The Picks:

Ghost Friends Forever Volume 1 GN – Papercutz’s Charmz line releases a new mystery-inspired series. After her parents divorced, Sophia Campos ended up with her more mystical minded father, while her brother Felix went with their scientifically-minded mother. But all are still involved in the family business of helping ghosts. Everything changes when Sophia meets the ghost of a girl who has been dead for 20 years, and who may hold the secret to the paranormal event that caused her parents to split up in the first place. It’s up to Sophia along with Felix, and his friend Jake, who has a crush on Sophia, to solved the dead girl’s case. Combining mystery and romance and touch of the paranormal, Ghost Friends Forever is a recipe for fun that tweens will love.

Hammy And Gerbee Volume 1 Mummies At The Museum GN – Henry Holt introduces young readers to a charming new duo. Best friends Hammy, a hamster, and Gerbee, a gerbil, think things are looking up when they find out they’re both in Miss Capybara’s class. But isn’t not all fun and games as they have to face spelling bees, pop quizzes, and the evil mice twins, Anna and Hanna. Things can’t get worse as they go on a field trip to the science museum, where the two rodent friends find their own fun and trouble! Described as Babymouse meets Night at the Museum, this captivating first volume will attract a wide audience.

Images © Charmz and Henry Holt respectively.

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