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This Week’s Comics: Ninja Tails

Lori Henderson
Sonic Universe 5

Prepare for the long Memorial Day weekend with some comics! Archie Comics releases the second volume of the series Sabrina The Teenage Witch: The Magic Within. BOOM! Studios doubles the adventure with new issues of Adventure Time and Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake, while DC Comics releases the second issue of the digital first [...]

Links: Kevin Keller’s first kiss

Brigid Alverson
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Archie Comics’ openly gay character Kevin Keller gets his first kiss in August—and provokes the ire of a Riverdale mom, whose reaction Veronica catches on video. Archie writer and artist Dan Parent discusses the storyline at USA Today, and Archie co-CEO Jon Goldwater notes that the remarkable thing about Kevin’s kiss is not that he [...]

Cover Reveal: Jughead Double Double Digest #196

Brigid Alverson
JugDDDigest#196

The Archie Comics folks have something new going on this year: Each of their Double Digests will double in size, to 320 pages, for one of their releases. Chris Sims took a look at the Archie Double Double Digest for Comics Alliance, and it’s a handful. As I’m a big Jughead fan, I was thrilled [...]

Preview: Lego Ninjago, vol. 7: Stone Cold

Brigid Alverson
Ninjago 7_Page_1

The saga of Lego Ninjago continues—no, really!—as our little interlocking-block warriors face off against the evil Stone Warriors in Lego Ninjago, vol. 7: Stone Cold, out this Wednesday in finer bookstores everywhere. Here’s a preview to get you started. (Click each image 3 times to enlarge.)

This Week’s Comics: Double the Boom!

Lori Henderson
Adventure Time playing OGN

If you like to wait for trade paperbacks, this week’s list is a treasure trove of titles! The fifth trade for Mega Man comes out this week from Archie Comics. BOOM! Studios has two for the adventurer and cat lover with the collection of Adventure Time: Marceline and the Scream Queens and Garfield, and IDW [...]

Links: A Flurry of First Second books

Brigid Alverson
Astronaut Academy Re-Entry

Dave Roman discusses his new release, Astronaut Academy: Re-Entry, the sequel to his first Astronaut Academy book. Here’s a sample to get you started: I pitched “Astronaut Academy” to First Second as two books, because a futuristic space station school is filled with endless possibilities. Book 1 establishes a world where people (like characters in [...]

Preview: Odd Duck, by Cecil Castellucci and Sara Varon

Brigid Alverson
Odd Duck cover

We have a treat for you today: A preview of Odd Duck, written by Cecil Castellucci and illustrated by Sara Varon, out this month from First Second. Castellucci is well known for her young adult work, which includes the Minx graphic novel The Plain Janes (illustrated by Jim Rugg) and the hybrid graphic novel The [...]

Review: The Smurflings

J. Caleb Mozzocco
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  The Smurflings By Peyo Papercutz   The monotonous blue and white color scheme of the Smurf village gets broken up a bit in this fifteenth installment of Papercutz’s Smurfs reprints, which introduces a quartet of new characters to Smurf village, each of who eschew the white pants and hat ensemble that most Smurfs favor. [...]

Review: Benny Breakiron Vol. 1: The Red Taxis

J. Caleb Mozzocco
benny breakiron

Benny  Breakiron Vol. 1: The Red Taxis By Peyo and Will Maltaite Papercutz   American audiences have certainly embraced Belgian cartoonist Pierre “Peyo” Cuilliford’s most famous creation over the decades, with a successful cartoon series a cornerstone of 9 Saturday morning memories, 2011 live-action/CGI movie popular enough to generate a sequel and a series of [...]

This Week’s Comics: Wolvie Breakiron

Lori Henderson
BennyBreakiron1

Mother’s Day is this weekend. Make Mom happy by keeping the kids out of her hair with some of the comics coming out this week! Archie Comics concludes the first arc in their huge crossover with Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Man in Mega Man #25. Papercutz has a new volume of  Smurfs, and Viz [...]