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New all age comic books for June 8

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It’s early June and a great week for humor all age comic books because there are more of them than the other categories combined. That’s not a bad thing, because on the whole there are so many all age books coming out this week there is bound to be at least two different books for every young reader. If you want the audio version of this where we highlight a couple of books in each category just check out our podcast. It’s only 15 minutes long and give me a great excuse to use my broadcasting degree.

In Superhero this week you can get the trade paperback for Actionverse where they celebrate their fifth anniversary or Marvel Universe Guardians of the Galaxy #8. While not in comic book stores you can also find new young reader origin stories from Capstone featuring Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman. These are easy reader books that are great for young readers and more book than comic book. But they’re great and give confidence to readers that they can conquer a chapter book.

Science fiction and action has lots that we’re excited about this week including Invader Zim, a cross over comic book featuring Lumberjanes and Gotham Academy and Sonic the Hedgehog. Poppy! And the Lost Lagoon is a trade paperback that looks really good for ages 10 and up. It’s from Dark Horse, has fabulous art and is the story about a young girl who gets summoned on a worldwide quest to find out what happened to her grandfather. Kaijumax Season 2 is great, large monster wrecking fun for ages 9 and up due to the large monsters and such.

If humor based all age comic books are your jam then this week is for you. Adventure Time, Donald Duck, a trade paperback from Ghostbusters, Goldie Vance, Mickey Mouse, The Pink Panther, Spongebob Comics, Welcome to Showside and many others are out.

Where is your closest comic book store? The links will take you to TFAW where you’ll save up to 20% on your order.

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Sugar Free Allstars, at the kindie intersection of parody and funk

A couple of months ago we previewed the new single from Sugar Free Allstars, Monster Truck. It’s a kindie ode to role play, monster trucks and over the top announcers set to tight music that channels Deep Purple and yacht rock. In our review of the song then we said that it puts the fun in funky. We’ve been listening to the entire disc for the past two months now and still stand by that. However, we’ll l add that the entire disc is more to the kid side of kindie, but still manages to reel in adults thanks to humor, pop culture references and more.

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Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar is your kid’s classic book

Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar meets and exceeds all of the requirements that we have for a great good-night book. This is the kind of good-night book that parents can read more than once (because it’s not too long), has a variety of colors on the background, different sized text and artwork that makes young readers and parents smile. Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar feels like a classic book. The book doesn’t crib ideas from earlier sources, it’s entirely original, but after reading it you can feel its old soul.

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TMNT: Out of the Shadows, Shell up and enjoy the ride

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Normally when you describe a movie as not bad it’s meant as a slight. However, with TMNT: Out of the Shadows it’s meant as a compliment. For us, we expected Out of the Shadows to be bad and were pleasantly surprised when we enjoyed it. When the cartoon first came out I was a casual fan, but with our kids watching those same episodes I’m back down with Turtle Power. Out of the Shadows is better than you think it is, if you go in with the right frame of mind and are 10 or older.

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