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This is a look at the new all age comics that are OK for young readers. Some of these comics are also great for any reader :) We’ll review some of them and provide as thorough a list of all the new titles coming out that Wednesday.
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This week in all age comic books has My Little Pony-Friendship is Magic, DC Superhero Girls Giant, Go Go Power Rangers, Big Hero 6 and more. Over in the podcast we’ll chat about those issues, plus let you know that one of the best monthly series is calling it a wrap, introduce you to a great new mini-series from Tracy Yardley and look at two new graphic novels for middle school readers and up.
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It’s a great week for all age comic books. The 500 pound gorilla in kidlit arrives with its latest installment. While Diary of a Wimpy Kid Wrecking Ball is not a comic book, it’s such a big deal for elementary and middle school readers it merits mentioning here. Those ages won’t care about the plot, they’ll just want new adventures from the Heffley family. There are also some great releases from Marvel Action on IDW Publishing, a massive 100 page release from Teen Titans Go! and more.
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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
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.
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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.
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Tis two weeks before Halloween and all through the comic book shop lay those all age comic books good for ages 5 and up. Well, some of them anyway-and for that really young crowd check out Star Wars A Merry Sithmas Pop-Up book. It’s from Disney and a chance to make your own pop-up book. The 3D elements won’t be board book quality, so while the presentation is great for those young ones, just keep their hands a safe distance away. For those readers who are slightly older Star Wars Adventures: Vader’s Castle or Marvel Action Black Panther, both of these comic books are highly entertaining and great for ages 7 and up.
In the podcast we’ll chat about Charlie Brown, Scooby Doo, a great What Is The Story book about Doctor Who and a Superman book that middle schoolers might be down with.
Humor Archie Married Life 10 Years Later, #3, E Archie, #708, UE, MSurviving The Great Indoors, E, M, H
Unplugged and Unpopular, M, H
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October is a great time for all age comic books. It’s jammed with some books that you’d expect, a couple new comics that will bring age appropriate scares and the Halloween Mini-Comics. We’ve given out the Halloween Mini-Comics to our child’s classes for years and this year has books from Blastosaurus, DC Superhero Girls, The Loud House and many more. A pack of these only costs $4.99, but get them quickly as some titles will certainly sell out on New Comic Book Day.
In the podcast this week we’re talking about Cartoon Network Gift Set, Wings of Fire The Graphic Novel-The Hidden Kingdom, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Batman, The Unicorn Whisperer and a couple others. For now, here are all of this week’s new all age comic books, some that will be OK for readers in mid-elementary school and a couple left of center titles that will be great for middle school.
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