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New from BOOM! Studios’ KaBoom line this week is Ice Age: Iced In, a 24-page comic based on the 2002 movie Ice Age. The movie may be old, but the comic is fresh and lively, with a script by Caleb Monroe and art by Braden Lamb and Shelli Paroline, who will be illustrating KaBoom’s Adventure […]
Jinx is a grown-up version of an older Archie comic, Little Jinx, that was a favorite of mine when I was a kid. In the original, Jinx was a mischievous six-year-old who often sparred with her father; now she is a teenager and the sparring has gotten a little more serious—but only a little. Writers […]
This isn’t really a preview—the third issue of Snarked, Roger Langridge’s charming Lewis Carroll-influenced comic, has been out for a few weeks—but it’s a slow week for comics, so it seemed like a good choice anyway. Enjoy, and happy New Year!
Vol. 5 of Matt Loux’s Salt Water Taffy wraps up the Caldera’s Revenge saga: Jack is taken prisoner aboard the ghost ship Nutmeg, and it’s up to Benny and Angus to rescue him. With the help of an old friend, Benny unravels the mystery of The Hidden History of Chowder Bay, but will he get […]
It’s time for some Saturday cartoons! Today’s selection features the classic Archie superheroes (scripted by Frank Doyle and penciled by Bill Vigoda) getting mixed up in some medieval hijinks. Archie and Friends Double Digest #11 goes on sale this Wednesday, so if you like what you see, you won’t have to wait long to see […]
With Halloween behind us and Thanksgiving just around the corner, it’s time for the holiday-themed comics to start popping up. In Betty & Veronica Double Digest #219, our pals try to help out one of Santa’s fairies who has been fired from her job. Check out this quick preview, and then check out the comic, […]
Following the success of their Peanuts graphic novel earlier this year, BOOM! Studios is launching a monthly Peanuts comic. Here’s a look at their preview issue, Peanuts #0; the full series launches in January.
Power Lunch, just released last week by Oni Press, is a light-hearted spin on the superhero genre. Joey avoids any food that isn’t white, because colored foods have a strange effect on him—they give him super powers. Written by J. Torres (Alison Dare; Lola: A Ghost Story) and illustrated by Dean Trippe (Butterfly), this book […]
Sketch Monsters, out this week from Oni Press, is the story of an eight-year-old girl who doesn’t express her feelings in the usual way: Instead of showing them outwardly, she draws them as monsters in her sketchbook. That keeps them neatly bottled away—until the day they all escape and run amok, forcing her to round […]
New from BOOM! Studios this week, DuckTales, vol. 1: Rightful Owners is a wild ride in the Disney Afternoon tradition. Written by Warren Spector (creator of the Epic Mickey game) and illustrated by Leonel Castellani, it stands on its own but also shares continuity with Disney’s Darkwing Duck books (also published by BOOM!). The first […]
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