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Free Comic Book Day Special Preview: Archaia’s FCBD Comic

Brigid Alverson
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Today is Free Comic Book Day, the national holiday that celebrates all things sequential. Check the official website for a list of comic book stores that will be offering special FCBD comics to all comers today—and the site also has a list of the comics. And to tide you over, here are a series of [...]

Preview: Archie Double Digest #239

Brigid Alverson
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We’ve got a quick hit of Archie goodness for you today! Here’s the solicit information: Archie Double Digest #239 Archie drops by Chuck’s and discovers the artist at work on some portraits of the gang. Using Chuck’s skills to his advantage, Archie stumbles upon the key to getting into any girl’s good graces by presenting [...]

Exclusive Preview: Spy vs. Spy

Brigid Alverson
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I have to confess to a personal fondness for this preview. I grew up reading MAD Magazine, and in fact I’m one of those people whose knowledge of popular culture, particularly film, was strongly shaped by it. And like all MAD readers, I giggled to the slapstick antics of “Spy vs. Spy,” which made total [...]

Preview: Seeing Double with Archie Double Digests

Brigid Alverson
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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
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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 [...]

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

Brigid Alverson
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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.)

Preview: Johnny Boo Does Something

Brigid Alverson
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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: Betty and Veronica Double Digest #211

Brigid Alverson
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Here’s another quick look at a Betty and Veronica comic for you. Betty and Veronica Double Digest #211 hits the comics shops tomorrow, but you get a first look today! Here’s the 411: It’s a lovely spring day, perfect for a walk! Or so Veronica thinks… Riverdale’s resident fashion maven attempts to trek to Betty’s, [...]

Preview: Adventure Time #14

Brigid Alverson
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This month’s Adventure Time #14 wraps up two stories. Finn, Jake, and Princess Marcelline battle a virtual monster in the main arc, written by Ryan North and illustrated by Braden Lamb and Shelli Paroline, and Finn dodges his fate as the Princess of Rad Hats in a side story by Crogan’s Adventures creator Chris Schweizer. [...]

Preview: Geronimo Stilton: The First Samurai

Brigid Alverson
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Geronimo Stilton meets Akira Kurasawa in Geronimo Stilton: The First Samurai, the 12th volume of the time-traveling mouse’s adventures in graphic novel form. In this story, the Pirate Cats travel back to 1603 Japan, and Geronimo and his troupe follow, impersonating a traveling band of actors, to find out what they are up to. Good [...]