BOOM! Studios and its imprints BOOM! Box, KaBOOM!, and Archaia have released previews of this week’s releases, which include Rowan’s Ruin #3, John Flood #5, The Woods #18, Garfield’s Cheesy Holiday Special #1, Regular Show #30, Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Dragons #1, and Toil and Trouble #4, as well as a new edition of the Eisner-nominated Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and the hardcover collection of Jorge Corona’s Feathers.
Official previews:
Rowans Ruin #3 (of 4)
Writer: Mike Carey
Artist: Mike Perkins\
As Katie’s parents try to get to know their English visitor in Florida, Katie looks into the history of Emily’s family and discovers disturbing details about their deaths.
John Flood #5 (of 6)
Writer: Justin Jordan
Artist: Jorge Coelho
Tate and Berry both race to get to Flood in the police station for very different reasons.
The Woods #18
Writer: James Tynion IV
Artist: Michael Dialynas
Casey has big plans for Bay Point that seem great, but Calder knows his brother is up to something.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Omnibus TP
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Writer: Philip K. Dick
Artist: Tony Parker
What’s to Love: If you loved the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner, chances are you know it’s based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? From 2009-2011, we published a 24-issue graphic interpretation of the novel as realized by artist Tony Parker. Now, for the first time, all 24 issues of the Eisner Award-nominated series are collected into one complete omnibus edition, featuring a brand-new cover by Mondo artist Jay Shaw and essays from Jonathan Lethem, Ed Brubaker, Warren Ellis, Matt Fraction, and more.
What It Is: San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. The World War has killed millions, driving entire species to extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies build incredibly realistic fakes: horses, birds, cats, sheep…even humans. Rick Deckard is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked to find six rogue androids. They’re machines, but look, sound, and think like humans—and infinitely more dangerous.
Garfield’s Cheesy Holiday Special #1
Imprint: KaBOOM!
Writers: Mark Evanier, Scott Nickel
Artists: Andy Hirsch, David DeGrand
What’s to Love: The Fat Cat makes the perfect lasagna-stuffed stocking stuffer in this oversized holiday one-shot from some of our favorite Garfield pals!
What It Is: Two holiday-themed Garfield stories are here to brighten your season! First, Garfield and Odie help out a young girl at the mall looking for her lost dog in “Holly’s Holiday Hope,” then it’s time for the not-so-classic story of “The Lasagna Monster That Stole Christmas,” where the Lasagna Monster steals ALL the lasagna in the world on Christmas Day!
Regular Show #30
Imprint: KaBOOM!
Writer: Mad Rupert
Artist: Laura Howell
Mordecai, Rigby, Benson, and Skips take a tour of the Rainbow Palace in the clouds, but it turns into a battlefield!
Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Dragons #1 (of 4)
Imprint: Archaia
Writers: Daniel Bayliss & Fabian Rangel Jr.
Artist: Daniel Bayliss
What’s to Love: We explored the many different myths and legends about witches in Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Witches, and we’re thrilled to rejoin the Storyteller and his faithful dog as they explore a whole new set of stories about dragons from talented creators with beautiful and unique styles.
What It Is: Dragons have taken many different shapes in cultures across the world, from serpents and “worms” to thunderbirds and the classic European firebreather. In this first issue, Fabian Rangel Jr. (Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard) and artist Daniel Bayliss (Translucid) bring us “Son of the Serpent,” inspired by Native American stories about the Horned Snake and the Thunderbird.
Toil and Trouble #4 (of 6)
Imprint: Archaia
Writer: Mairghread Scott
Artists: Kelly & Nichole Matthews
With Smertae taking care of the invading army and Riata controlling Lady Macbeth, Cait has her hands full trying to keep her sisters to play by the rules of their arrangement.
Feathers HC
Imprint: Archaia
Writer: Jorge Corona
Artist: Jorge Corona
What’s to Love: Created, written, and illustrated by incredible breakout talent and Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award winner Jorge Corona (We Are Robin, Teen Titans Go!), Feathers is a tale of danger, friendship, and adventure that really tugged on our heartstrings. We’re so excited to bring Corona’s first original series to readers in a beautiful collected hardcover edition.
What It Is: Born covered in black feathers, abandoned as a baby in the slums of the Maze, Poe has lived his entire 11-year-old life hidden away under the protection of his adoptive father, Gabriel. He spends his days secretly helping the Mice, bands of orphans who roam the slums, but there is a whisper of an altogether more sinister figure in the shadows, making street children disappear. When Bianca, an over-protected girl from the wealthy City beyond the Wall, escapes into the Maze in search of adventure, their worlds collide. Collects the complete six-issue limited series plus never-before-seen artwork.
