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Archie turns superhero in the latest issue of Archie and Friends Double Digest #7, in a classic Pureheart the Powerful story that first ran in 1965. That was back in the Silver Age, and everyone was getting on the superhero bandwagon—the Batman television show may be the most famous example of superhero camp, but Archie […]
It’s been a while since we featured any classic Disney comics, and this one is a particularly good choice. Uncle Scrooge: The Mysterious Stone Ray and Cash Flow, due out in comics shops next week, is 54-page trade paperback collecting two stories by classic Disney writers: Carl Barks’s “The Mysterious Stone Ray” and Don Rosa’s […]
Archie Babies are coming to town—and we have an exclusive first look here at Good Comics for Kids! Archie Babies is notable because it is the first-ever original graphic novel from Archie Comics —they publish a lot of trade paperbacks these days, but up till now they were all published in comic-book form first. It’s […]
Gladstone’s School for World Conquerors, by Mark Andrew Smith, Armand Villavert, and Carlos Carrasco, is an action/comedy story set in a school for aspiring supervillains. The first issue came out last month from Image Comics, and Mark tells me that it has sold out; you can check out a preview at Comic Book Resources, and […]
I had a hard time navigating the BEA site before the show and only found one session related to Graphic Novels. (I know there had to be more, but I really couldn’t find them.) Luckily, I did find a session moderated by John Hogan
Now, while Book Expo is not regulated to comics, you couldn’t go up and down the exhibit hall and not find out about comics. So here are some of the comics and graphic novels that caught my eyes.
BOOM! Studios continues their series of classic Disney comics with Donald Duck and Friends #366, featuring an Italian tale from 1962 that has never been published in English before. This story, “South Sea Shenanigans,” is actually the conclusion of a trilogy of Donald stories; the cover is by Daan Jippes and the story is by […]
The sci-fi parody Space Warped is one of the initial offerings from BOOM! Studios’ new kids’ imprint, kaboom! (they sure do love their exclamation points down at the BOOM! offices), and while the book won’t be out until June, they released a ten-page preview this week. Written by Hervé Bourhis and illustrated by Rudy Spiessert, […]
Summer vacation is still a ways away, but Matt Loux is getting us into the mood with a new volume of Salt Water Taffy, bringing us Jack and Benny’s latest seaside adventures. This volume is the first in a multi-part series, Caldera’s Revenge, in which the boys climb aboard a ghost whaling ship to go […]
Donald Duck and his pals take a turn for the martial arts in Donald Duck and Friends: Feathers of Fury. The 128-page trade paperback was released in comics stores last week. Here’s the quick summary: Donald Duck’s lazy day with his nephews suddenly sends the unsuspecting duck on a surreal journey in the far east, […]
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