Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Happy New Comic Book Day! What’s new in all age comic books this week? In the podcast we’re talking about Disney Afternoon Giant, The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Little Mermaid, Star Wars Adventures, William the Last and we’ll share with you the best selling all age comic book from one store that we visit. I think you’ll be surprised at what they’re selling the most of.
The Muppet Christmas Carol, E, M, H
Sanity & Tallulah: Field Trip, UE, M
The story of Doug Underbelly starts out fast. Underbelly is the king of the mole people and it’s important to know that because he’s being called back to do the king’s work by the end of the first chapter. Granted, there is a two-page prologue that gives readers a very quick overview of the situation. Doug is just trying to be a typical seventh-grade student, but he’s also the King of the Mole People. Unfortunately for him, the later seems to always have the upper hand.
If I say classics reimagined it might bring about the worst case scenario in your mind. They’re going to remake The Princess Bride? Here we enter the sometimes interchangeable at worst or synonymous words at best. In common movie terms, I’d think of a movie being reimagined as sticking close to the source material, but contemporizing it for a new audience. Classics Reimagined: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a book from the same named series by Rockport Publishing.
A story is only as good as its heel. Toss in that the heel is also a bully and it can take on primal feelings of disdain, guilt and shame. Not only are they not a good person, they’re actively picking on other people. It’s on. The Tornado is by author Jake Burt. Its tagline is “Only a force of nature can stop this bully”. This is middle school reading that’s more fun to read than that tagline infers. Ultimately, it’s about friendship, making mistakes and owning up to them.
If you’ve listened to our podcast then you’ve probably heard us talk about all age graphic novels vs. kid’s graphic novels (or graphic novels for kids, if you prefer). Laser Moose is a series of original graphic novels from Doug Savage on Andrews McMeel Publishing that is as great as an all age graphic novel can get. If Marvel Action: Spider-Man from IDW Publishing is one of our go-to examples for a great all age comic book (and it is), then Laser Moose is its graphic novel equivalent. “Name a great all age graphic novel”, some yeehaw might ask me at a party. Without hesitation I’d say this series from Savage, especially this addition, it’s most time-travelled episode yet, Laser Moose and Rabbit Boy: Time Trout.
Sara Varon has created graphic novels packed with friendly, anthropomorphic robots or animals who make shoes, knit scarves and are otherwise the kind of neighbors that you want to have. Hold Hands is a picture book that skews younger than Varon’s other work, while featuring the same, cartoon realistic animals that you wish were your neighbors. This is the kind of feel-good, rhyming, illustrated book that ages three-six will love as a goodnight book.
One expects excellence from a Cirque du Soleil show. It’s as high as one can get in the world of acrobatics and performance. It’s a brand unto itself, all you have to do is say you’re going to a Cirque show and you have an idea of what to expect. That fact is completely put in its head in Volta. It starts out similar to other shows, where a loosely constructed story is laid out. However, even as you’re watching the first act, which was a team of people jumping rope; it’s obvious that Volta has an energy that you haven’t seen in a Cirque du Soleil show in a while. For me it was evident that the performers were having fun. Sure they were jumping rope and doing Double Dutch, moving as quickly as touching the ground seven times in one second. They were doing that; but the performers were grinning from ear to ear, high-fiving one another and utterly enjoying themselves.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Have you heard that the spookiest holiday of the year is just around the corner? It’s also a great week for all age comic books and a couple great releases are getting into the seasonal act. Betty and Veronica Supernatural Stories, Star Wars Adventures gets spooky with Vader’s Castle and there are still some fab Halloween Comic Fest Mini-Comics for you to get.
In the podcast we’ll chat about Dilbert Turns 30, a new Super Sons novel-The Foxglove Mission by Ridley Pearson, Swamp Thing, Lumberjanes and more.
For now, here’s the list of those all age comic books that’ll be appropriate for readers as young as elementary school, but can skew just a bit older too.
Copy Protected by Chetan's WP-Copyprotect.
Facebook
Twitter
Flickr
GooglePlus
Youtube