BOOM! Studios and its imprints BOOM! Box, KaBOOM!, and Archaia have released previews of this week’s available comics, including Steven Universe and the Crystal Gems #1, Paknadel & Trakhanov’s Turncoat #1, Welcome Back #6, Big Trouble in Little China #22, Adventure Time: Ice King #3, Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Dragons #4, Jonesy #2, and Lumberjanes #24, as well as several trade paperback collections.
Official previews:
Paknadel & Trakhanov’s Turncoat #1 (of 4)
Writer: Alex Paknadel
Artist: Artyom Trakhanov
What’s to Love: Employing the most compelling elements of science fiction and the detective genre, Paknadel & Trakhanov’s Turncoat is a gripping exploration of power vacuums and the legacy of oppression. Alex Paknadel (Arcadia) and Artyom Trakhanov (Undertow) tell the story of a guilt-ridden protagonist through a grisly quest for truth. Paknadel & Trakhanov’s Turncoat will scratch that itch you have for dark sci-fi like Blade Runner, The Forever War, and Neuromancer.
What It Is: 300 years since humanity was brutally subjugated by the alien race known simply as the Management. Two years since these invaders abandoned Earth to return to their home world. Following her participation in the brutal massacre of human-alien hybrids left behind by the Management, resistance fighter Marta Gonzalez declines to join the new human government and starts her own private detective agency instead. Gonzalez is forced to confront her own bloody past and acknowledge the fact that the transition from oppression to emancipation is anything but clean.
Welcome Back #6
Writer: Christopher Sebela
Artist: Claire Roe
Mali and Tessa are on the run from the Sequels trying to take them out.
Big Trouble in Little China #22
Writer: Fred Van Lente
Artist: Victor Santos
What happens when Egg Shen and Lo Pan become best friends? The founding of Little China gets all the stranger as Jack Burton confronts his own death!
Hit: 1957 TP
Writer: Bryce Carlson
Artist: Vanesa R. Del Rey
What’s to Love: Hit: 1955 was one of our favorite original series of 2013, a dark, violent dive into the depths of 1950s corruption in Los Angeles featuring the writing of Bryce Carlson and the debut of Russ Manning Award for Most Promising Newcomer nominee Vanesa R. Del Rey. Hit: 1957 takes us later in the seminal decade of change for the LAPD—familiar faces, new threats, and more sharp, smart noir. Even if you missed out on the first series, if you’re a fan of crime comics like Parker, Criminal, and Tumor, Hit is in your wheelhouse.
What It Is: Crime is down in Los Angeles—at least, on the surface. Mickey Cohen has been quiet since his release from prison and the LAPD has seemingly regained control of the city. But the underground is a different story. Det. Harvey Slater and company have spent the last two years focused on Domino and his Syndicate’s unrelenting infiltration, but no matter how many people the hit squad kills, the real fight for Los Angeles rages on. Meanwhile, Slater’s being hounded by Internal Affairs, Bonnie Brae is missing, and everything is falling apart at the seams. Collects the complete limited series, issues #1-4.
Steven Universe and the Crystal Gems #1 (of 4)
Imprint: KaBOOM!
Writer: Josceline Fenton
Artist: Chrystin Garland
What’s to Love: The Steven Universe Cartoon Network animated series has given us a serious case of the feels over and over again, and our first Steven Universe comic series was met with enthusiasm from our fellow fans, so we had to head back to Beach City for more adventures! Plus, all the Subscription covers in this mini-series by Jeremy Sorese connect to form one image!
What It Is: Josceline Fenton (Hemlock) and Chrystin Garland (Adventure Time) help keep Beach City weird with this new four-issue miniseries. Steven takes the Gems out for a camping trip and tells them spooky stories around the camp fire. The Gems don’t give him much of a reaction, but they do tell him a spooky story of their own about a monster who turns bad Gems into glass and shatters them. Pearl assures a terrified Steven that it’s just a story, but suddenly people around Beach City start turning up frozen in glass…
Adventure Time: Ice King #3 (of 6)
Imprint: KaBOOM!
Writer: Emily Partridge
Artist: Natalie Andrewson
Ice King is starting to fit in with the cool wizard group, but his friends can tell he’s changing for the worst.
Uncle Grandpa and the Time Casserole OGN TP
Imprint: KaBOOM!
Writers: Pete Browngardt, Kelsy Abbot, and Pranas Naujokaitis
Artists: Philip Murphy, Charles Paul Wilson III, Christine Larsen, Alexis Ziritt, David DeGrand, George Mager, Pranas Naujokaitis
What’s to Love: Uncle Grandpa series creator Peter Browngardt, series writer Kelsy Abbott, and Pranas Naujokaitis (Adventure Time) are taking us on a time-traveling adventure of epic proportions! Featuring a massive array of artists and madness that will make you scream “Good Morning!” at the top of your lungs!
What It Is: When Uncle Grandpa accidentally explodes his casserole into oblivion, it is up to him, Belly Bag, Uncle Gus, Pizza Steve, and Giant Realistic Flying Tiger, to travel back in time to make things right…to get all the missing ingredients to make another casserole. Traveling to the Moon, the ’90s, Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, medieval times, and more, the gang WILL MAKE THAT CASSEROLE!
Adventure Time Vol. 8 TP
Imprint: KaBOOM!
Writers: Ryan North, Christopher Hastings
Artists: Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb, Zachary Sterling
It’s the end of one era and the beginning of another in this collection that includes the very the last issue by Ryan North and artists Shelli & Braden as they take the AT gang on one last one-shot adventure, and introduces indie all-stars Christopher Hastings and Zachary Sterling as they start Finn and Jake on an adventure that is as tasty dangerous! Collects issues #35-39.
Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Dragons #4 (of 4)
Imprint: Archaia
Writer: Jorge Corona
Artist: Jorge Corona
Final issue! Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award-winner Jorge Corona (We Are Robin, Feathers) presents the tale “Samurai’s Sacrifice,” based on the Japanese folklore of the dragon Yofune Nushi and the young girl who faced him to protect her village.
Jonesy #2 (of 4)
Imprint: BOOM! Box
Writer: Sam Humphries
Artist: Caitlin Rose Boyle
Jonesy’s plan to make two teens from opposite sides of the social strata fall in love has backfired spectacularly, leaving them happy as clams and ruining Jonesy’s chance at attending the biggest show of the year!
Lumberjanes #24
Imprint: BOOM! Box
Writers: Shannon Watters & Kat Leyh
Artist: Carey Pietsch
The Lumberjanes wrap up their adventure with Seafarin’ Karen and Molly gains a greater understanding of shapeshifters.
Help Us! Great Warrior TP
Imprint: BOOM! Box
Writer: Madeleine Flores
Artist: Madeleine Flores
What’s to Love: Madeleine Flores’ tale of a smart, hilarious, and intensely capable little warrior enchanted us immediately with its unique sense of humor and manga-influenced look and feel. If you love the brand of kick-butt girl power that the Lumberjanes bring to the page each month, then this sword-wielding girl and her hilarious adventures will be exactly what you need. Also, there are witches who turn everyone to hunks. What’s not to love?
What It Is: Based on Madeleine Flores’ popular webcomic, Help Us! Great Warrior is about a very powerful Great Warrior (natch) who protects her village from evildoers and looks great in her armor while doing it. Possessing great strength and even greater self-confidence, she’s ready to kick some butts and save everyone, especially hunky guys. Collects the complete six-issue limited series.
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