This Week’s Comics: Using Your Noodle
Highlights from this week’s list of new comic releases include a plethora of science books from Graphic Universe including biographies of Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, and Marie Curie as well as a Guide to Digital Citizenship featuring Garfield the cat. Harper Collins Publishers releases a graphic novel based on the popular Youtube channel FGTeeV with FGTeeV Present Into the Game while Tundra Books releases the fourth volume of Narwhal and Jelly, Narwhal’s Otter Friend.
The List:
ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS
Archie’s Big Book Volume 7 Musical Genius TP, $19.99
B & V Friends Jumbo Comics Digest #277, $7.99
BOOM! STUDIOS
Gunnerkrigg Court Volume 6 TP, $16.99
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #2, $3.99
Rocko’s Modern Afterlife Volume 1 TP, $14.99
FIRST SECOND
Go With The Flow GN, $14.99 **Weekly Pick**
GRAPHIC UNIVERSE
Dead Max Comix Volume 1 The Deadening GN, $8.99
Garfield’s Guide To Digital Citizenship A Garfield Guide To Online Etiquette Be Kind Online GN, $8.99
Garfield’s Guide To Digital Citizenship A Garfield Guide To Online Friends Not The Same As Real Friends GN, $8.99
Garfield’s Guide To Digital Citizenship A Garfield Guide To Posting Online Pause Before You Post GN, $8.99
Garfield’s Guide To Digital Citizenship A Garfield Guide To Safe Downloading Downloading Disaster GN, $8.99
Albert Einstein And The Theory Of Relativity GN, $8.99
Charles Darwin And The Theory Of Evolution GN, $8.99
Isaac Newton And The Laws Of Motion GN, $8.99
Marie Curie And Radioactivity GN, $8.99
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HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS
FGTeeV Presents Into The Game GN, $19.99
HOLIDAY HOUSE
Noodleheads Find Something Fishy GN, $6.99 **Weekly Pick**
IDW PUBLISHING
My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic #85, $3.99
Uncle Scrooge #52, $4.99
ONI PRESS
Bad Machinery Pocket Edition Volume 9 The Case Of The Missing Piece GN, $12.99
PAPERCUTZ
Geeky F@b 5 Volume 3 Doggone Catastrophe GN, $7.99
Loud House 3-In-1 Edition Volume 2 GN, $14.99
Loud House Volume 7 The Struggle Is Real GN, $7.99
TOKYOPOP
Nightmare Before Christmas Zero’s Journey #15, $3.99
TUNDRA BOOKS
Narwhal And Jelly Volume 4 Narwhal’s Otter Friend GN, $7.99
The Picks:
Go With The Flow GN – First Second makes some noise with a new graphic novel that follows four girls through a year of high school. Sophomores Abbey, Brit, Christine, and Sasha notice that the boys have brand-new football uniforms and equipment while the girls bathrooms are still shamefully bereft of feminine hygiene products. The four best friends decide to band together to confront the school’s administration about it. They petition, write letters, and start a revolution that may go a little too far, all while dealing with crushes, classes, and one of their own going rogue. But through it all they learn to work together and that some fights are worth all the trouble. Taking on issues of friendship, female empowerment, and women’s health issues, this graphic novel takes the often taboo topic of menstruation and demystifies it. Readers preteen and up will enjoy it.
Noodleheads Find Something Fishy GN – Holiday House releases the new series by the creator of the Fly Guy series, Tedd Arnold. Mac and Mac are two hollow-headed noodles who are incredibly gullible. They decide that since fish live in schools, they must be smart. At least they are smarter than the noodleheads who are outwitted by them. They get some help from their friend Meatball, who shows them how to get a bigger boat, but there’s something fishy about his suggestion. With short, funny chapters, this graphic novel is perfect for young comics fans and reluctant readers. It pulls from traditional world folktales and stories of fools to encourage critical thinking by inviting readers to see through the brothers’ ridiculous schemes.
Filed under: All Ages
About Lori Henderson
Lori Henderson is a mother of two teenage daughters and an avid reader. She blogs about manga at her personal blog Manga Xanadu as well as contributing and editing for Manga Village. She blogs about all things fandom (mainly Doctor Who) at her other personal blog Fangirl Xanadu. She's been at it so for over 5 years now and counting!
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