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This Week’s Comics: Beauty and the Beast Time!

Lori Henderson
Adventure Time 15

It’s a beast of a good time on this week’s comics list! The massive Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man crossover continues as the Blue Streak and the Blue Bomber leap into Sonic Universe #51. Cinebook returns with two volumes of Lucky Luke for fans who missed the Cowboy’s adventures, and fans of Disney Princesses can check [...]

Eisner Awards Nominees Announced

Brigid Alverson
Crogans Loyalty

This year’s nominees for the Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards have been announced, and it’s quite a varied lineup. Last year’s judges (ahem) increased the number of young reader categories from two to three, and this year’s judges have continued that practice, which opens up the nominations to a wider range of books. Best Publication [...]

Preview: Seeing Double with Archie Double Digests

Brigid Alverson
BFDD_233-0

Here’s an Archie double-header, previews of two Double Digests that will be in comics stores tomorrow: Betty & Veronica Friends Double Digest #233 and World of Archie Double Digest #28. Here’s the scoop on both of ‘em: B&V FRIENDS DOUBLE DIGEST #233 Veronica’s birthday is fast approaching and she is ready to celebrate in typical [...]

Exclusive Preview: Tiny Titans: Aw Yeah Titans

Brigid Alverson
TITIAYT_Cv copy

We have a special treat for you today: An exclusive preview of the last collection of Art Baltazar and Franco’s Tiny Titans series. Tiny Titans: Aw Yeah Titans collects issues #45-50 of the Eisner award-winning series in a 128-page, comic book-sized paperback priced at a kid-friendly $12.99. Here’s the blurb: It’s the final TINY TITANS [...]

This Week’s New Comics: Crossover Craziness

Lori Henderson
Megaman24

Weather the April showers with some of the collected editions coming out this week! DC Comics releases the final volume of the Tiny Titans series with #8. Marvel Comics has a hard cover edition of their adaptation of Road to Oz, and finally, the long awaited full color omnibus of Osamu Tezuka’s Unico comes out [...]

Review: Benjamin Bear in Bright Ideas

J. Caleb Mozzocco
benjamin bear

Benjamin Bear’s bright ideas include unique methods of getting rid of fleas, herding sheep, and making two things out of nothing, but even the bear’s brightest ideas are out-shined by those of Phillipe Coudray, the artist/author who created Benajmin and, therefore, does all of his thinking for him. Bright Ideas is Coudray’s second offering through [...]

Preview: Disney Fairies, vol. 11: Tinker Bell and the Most Precious Gift

Brigid Alverson
Fairies11-cvr

The fairies conspire to throw a surprise party in the latest volume of Disney Fairies, Tinker Bell and the Most Precious Gift, but the guest of honor goes astray. These books are fun for Disney Fairies fans and stand well on their own; this one is out April 10. (Click images to enlarge.)

This Week’s New Comics: Princeless Buddies

Lori Henderson
Princeless-Volume-2-Cover-1

April begins with a bang full of action and adventure! Capstone Press has another slew of DC Super Heroes books featuring favorites Batman and Superman. Dark Horse Comics has the next volume of the Brody’s Ghost series while Papercutz has the next adventure of Ernest and Rebecca in The Land of the Walking Stones. And [...]

Preview: Johnny Boo Does Something

Brigid Alverson
Johnny-Boo-5

James Kochalka has a field day in Johnny Boo Does Something, his fifth Johnny Boo book, sending his ghostly main character off on a Boring Adventure, a maybe-birthday celebration, and the bottom of an ice cream hole. Kochalka, who won an Eisner Award last year for another young-readers book, Dragon Puncher Island, is back and [...]

Preview: Ernest & Rebecca, vol. 4

Brigid Alverson
Ernest4-COV

Ernest & Rebecca is an unusual series. Translated from the French, it’s the story of a little girl who is sort of sickly, and her friend who is a germ. It’s a cute fantasy tale, but it’s set against the backdrop of family problems, as Rebecca’s parents separate during the course of the series. Volume [...]