This Week’s Comics: Jack and Zita’s Voyage

Highlights from this week’s list of new releases include: First Comics searches for alien dinosaurs in the new series Alien Bones, and Graphix plays it cool with the new Sunny volume, Sunny Rolls the Dice, while Disney-Hyperion looks at what helped make a famous writer who she was with Charlotte Bronte Before Jane Eyre.

The List:

AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY PRODUCTIONS
Casper’s Haunted Halloween #1 (Cover A), $3.99

ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS
Archie Halloween Spectacular #1, $2.99
Betty And Veronica Jumbo Comics Digest #277, $7.99

ATHENEUM BOOKS
To Dance A Ballerina’s Graphic Novel GN, $11.99

BOOM! STUDIOS
Over The Garden Wall Soulful Symphonies #3 (Of 5) Cover B Gavin Fullerton), $3.99

CHARMZ
Amy’s Diary Volume 2 The World’s Upside Down GN, $9.99

DISNEY – HYPERION
Charlotte Bronte Before Jane Eyre GN, $12.99
Houdini The Handcuff King GN, $12.99

FIRST COMICS
Alien Bones HC, $24.99

FIRST SECOND
Castle In The Stars Volume 3 The Knights Of Mars HC, $19.99
Kitten Construction Company Volume 2 A Bridge Too Fur GN, $17.99
Mighty Jack Volume 3 Zita The Spacegirl GN, $14.99 **Weekly Pick**
Stargazing GN, $12.99

GRAPHIX
Seventh Voyage HC, $19.99 **Weekly Pick**
Sunny Rolls The Dice GN, $12.99

HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS
Estranged Volume 2 The Changeling King GN, $12.99

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
Carmen San Diego Volume 2 The Fishy Treasure Caper GN, $10.99

IDW PUBLISHING
Marvel Action Black Panther #3 (Cover A Juan Samu), $3.99
Sonic The Hedgehog #21 (Cover A Aaron Hammerstrom), $3.99
Star Wars Adventures Return To Vader’s Castle #1 (Cover A Francesco Francavilla), $3.99
Uncle Scrooge #49 (Cover A Marco Mazzarello), $4.99

KNOPF BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
White Bird A Wonder Story GN, $24.99

SCHOLASTIC
Dog Man Guide To Creating Comics in 3-D HC, $10.99
Secret Hero Society Volume 5 Field Trip Disaster HC, $12.99

The Picks:

Mighty Jack Volume 3 Zita The Spacegirl GN – First Second has the middle-grade team-up of the century with Ben Hatke’s top two heroes joining forces to save the world! When Zita the Spacegirl comes to Earth looking for help with a new threat, Jack and Lilly, who are no strangers to heroics, are ready to help. The gate between worlds is growing weaker, and just outside the door, the danger is getting bigger. An army of giants and screeds stand ready to lay siege to Earth and put an end to the age of humans. With a threat greater than anything they could have imagined and time running out, the new friends must come together to save their world from their greatest enemy yet! Hatke’s sci-fi and fantasy worlds come together in a crossover that fans will not want to miss.

Seventh Voyage HC – Graphix releases a zany sci-fi tale from world renowned sci-fi writer Stanislaw Lem. When Ijon Tichy’s space ship is damaged by a small meteor, the lone astronaut discovers the repair are impossible to do alone. He goes to bed but is awakened by another astronaut, which is also impossible since he is alone on the spaceship. The second astronaut turns out to be Tichy’s future self, and he is now caught in a time loop! Soon more of his past and future selves start showing up, and instead of helping, they end up bickering and fighting with each other as they crowd into the tiny vessel. Tichy must find a way to stop fighting with himself in order to save his own life. Middle school readers will be delighted by this tale of time travel absurdity.

Filed under: All Ages