BOOM! Studios is proud to announce Archaia Summer Reading, a week-long spotlight on the powerful original graphic novel releases from the award-winning imprint in the coming months. It all begins with an extended first look at RUN WILD, an original graphic novel reuniting storytellers K.I. Zachopoulos and Vincenzo Balzano, the visionary creators of The Cloud. A haunting marriage […]
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Pullbox Reviews: Labyrinth: Coronation # 1- Secret Origins of Jareth Stardust
Secret Origins of Jareth Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: Coronation #1 (of 12) Publisher: Archaia, an imprint of BOOM! Studios Writer: Simon Spurrier Artist: Daniel Bayliss Does the Labyrinth prequel get lost? Long story short: Some key members of Archaia’s Henson Team come together to tell the secret […]
Pullbox Previews: Okko Omnibus
Okko (omnibus) Boom! Studios (Archaia) Story & Art by Hub (Humbert Chabuel) Colors by Hub, Stephan Pelayo, & Li Letters by Scott Newman, Ed Dukeshire, & Deron Bennett Translation by Edward Gauvin It is Year 1108 in the official calendar of the Pajan Empire. This turbulent age, often called the Asagiri Era, or the Time […]
Pullbox Reviews – Jim Henson’s Storyteller: Fairies #1 – A gift from a dark and terrible Fairyland
Jim Henson’s Storyteller: Fairies #1 Publisher: Archaia, an imprint of BOOM! Studios Writer/Artist: Matt Smith A gift from a dark and terrible fairyland There was a lot going against Jim Henson’s Storyteller when it was on the television in 1987 and 88. Henson was trying to branch out from the perception he was a comedy […]
Persephone Travels to the Underworld in BOOM! Studios’ New Original Graphic Novel
BOOM! Studios is proud to announce PERSEPHONE, Loïc Locatelli-Kournwsky’s moving original graphic novel (OGN) about a young girl whose search for the truth about her identity leads her on a journey deep into the Underworld. Inspired by the Greek myth of Demeter and her daughter, the eponymous Persephone, the book is a modern-day fantasy adventure […]
Royden Lepp’s ‘Rust’ Returns in February 2018 from BOOM! Studios
BOOM! Studios is proud to announce Royden Lepp’s RUST VOL. 4: SOUL IN THE MACHINE, the final chapter to his critically acclaimed graphic novel series about a mysterious boy who suddenly appears on a farm struggling to survive after a long apocalyptic war and changes the fate of the family who runs it. Debuting in […]
Jim Henson’s ‘The Storyteller’ Expands with Debut of ‘Fairies’ in December 2017
BOOM! Studios and The Jim Henson Company announce their fourth Storyteller collaboration with JIM HENSON’S THE STORYTELLER: FAIRIES, a four-issue limited series debuting in December featuring stand-alone stories by Matt Smith (Lake of Fire, Barbarian Lord), Benjamin Schipper (Cap’n Rex & His Clever Crew), Tyler Jenkins (Grass Kings), and Celia Lowenthal (The Saga of Gisli […]
Pullbox Reviews: Dark Crystal Tales — Beware the Dark Crystal Babies!
Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal Tales HC Release Date: 7/26/17 Publisher: Archaia, an imprint of BOOM! Studios Writer and Artist: Cory Godbey Readers would be right to worry that a Dark Crystal story about a young Jen and Kira might create some kind of “Muppet Babies” weirdness in the franchise. That’s a reasonable worry. Nobody wants […]
Pullbox Reviews: The Siegfried Saga (I, II, & III) – Wagner would have approved…
The Complete Siegfried Saga Boom! Studios (Archaia) & Dargaud In association with Pendragon Imageforge Written and Illustrated by Alex Alice Translated by Edward Gauvin Lettered by Scott Newman A three-part story inspired by Wagner’s classic opera The Ring of the Nibelung. Siegfried, half-god and half-mortal, is a young boy being raised by Mime, one of […]
Pullbox Reviews: The Power of the Dark Crystal Issues 1 and 2: Darker, Crystal-er
The Crystal is Back; Darker, and More Crystaly than Ever! Power of the Dark Crystal #1 and #2 (of 12) Publisher: Archaia, an imprint of BOOM! Studios Writer: Simon Spurrier Artists: Kelly and Nichole Matthews Price: $3.99 It’s harder than it should be to write a review of the graphic novel adaptation of “Jim Henson’s […]