REVIEW: Valen the Outcast #4

When you’re fighting for your soul, does standing for what is right, and saving your friends in their most difficult time say a lot more about the makeup of a hero than the end goal?  Valen gets a chance to prove his worth once more in the latest installment from BOOM! Studios.

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REVIEW: Steed And Mrs. Peel #2 (of 6)

Or – “We’re Needed!”

I’m always fascinated by names.  If you say you enjoy the character of The Master, it means something different to a fan of Buffy The Vampire Slayer than to a fan of Doctor Who than to a fan of Manos: The Hands Of Fate.  (Fortunately, that third option is entirely theoretical, as no such humans exist.)

So it’s a matter of great humor to me to see an adaptation of a television property with an iconic name into comics, where that selfsame iconic name has an entirely different legacy and expectations, to see if the characters can hold their own on a new playing field…

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SOLICITATIONS: Space Ducks announced

Press Release

BOOM! Town and Wieden + Kennedy Entertainment bring world-famous underground musician and artist Daniel Johnston to comics this April with his new graphic novel SPACE DUCKS: AN INFINITE COMIC BOOK OF MUSICAL GREATNESS.

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SOLICITATIONS: KABOOM! announces Garfield

Press Release

KaBOOM!, BOOM! Studios’ all-ages imprint, is proud to announce a partnership with PAWS, Inc. to produce a new original ongoing GARFIELD comic book this May. THE GARFIELD SHOW and GARFIELD AND FRIENDS writer Mark Evanier teams up with Garfield strip cartoonist Gary Barker to bring you all the laughs (and lasagna) you can handle!

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SOLICITATIONS: BOOM! Studios announces I Told You So

Press Release

This April, BOOM! Town issues Shannon Wheeler’s follow-up to the Eisner Award-winning I THOUGHT YOU WOULD BE FUNNIER with I TOLD YOU SO.  BOOM! Town offers this 116-page collection of Wheeler’s rejected New Yorker cartoons on the heels of his Eisner win for Best Humor Publication this past summer.

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ACC: Convention auctions Adventure Time variant

Press Release

The Annapolis Comic-Con and Third Eye Comics have joined forces for a true Epic Win. They will be auctioning off a very limited virgin art ADVENTURE TIME #1 ANNAPOLIS COMIC-CON variant, with all proceeds going to St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. With only 200 printed, this sought after ADVENTURE TIME collector’s item should climb high on every fan’s wish list.
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