BOOM Studios Comic Solicitations for March 2016
NEW LAUNCHING SINGLES AND ONE-SHOTS
MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS #1
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Kyle Higgins
Artist: Hendry Prasetya
Cover Artists:
Main: Jamal Campbell
Incentive 1: Goñi Montes
Incentive 2: Kevin Wada
Incentive 3: Dustin Nguyen
Incentive 4: Paul Pope
Action Figure Variant: David Ryan Robinson
Blank Sketch Variant: N/A
Villain Variant: Rebekah Isaacs
What’s to Love: With over four million viewers per week watching episodes that air three times a day,
seven days a week; an awareness of above 90% for men and women ages 7-54; and a new film coming
in 2017, the Power Rangers are more popular than ever. Dive headfirst into our original, modern
ongoing Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series that will appeal to both nostalgic fans and new readers
who enjoy epic, action-adventure fantasy stories.
What It Is: Based on the long-running Power Rangers franchise, five teens from Angel Grove High are
granted superpowers and giant robot dinosaur Zords to defend Earth against the alien villain Rita
Repulsa. When Repulsa creates an evil Green Power Ranger by brainwashing recent transfer student
Tommy, the team is able to free him from her grasp and get him on their side. But with remnants of
Repulsa’s control still stirring in the back of Tommy’s mind, he must confront the fact he may be more of
a danger to his new team than a help. This is “Green Ranger: Year One.”
TURNCOAT #1 (of 4)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Alex Paknadel
Artist: Artyom Trakhanov
Cover Artists:
Main: Artyom Trakhanov
Incentive Cover: Johnny Dombrowski
What’s to Love: Employing the most compelling elements of science fiction and the detective genre,
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 a truth. 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.
KABOOM!
NEW LAUNCHING SINGLES AND ONE-SHOTS
THE BAKER STREET PECULIARS #1 (of 4)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Roger Langridge
Artist: Andy Hirsch
Cover Artists:
Main: Andy Hirsch
Incentive Cover: Hannah Christenson
What’s to Love: Roger Langridge (Abigail and the Snowman, The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow),
who has delighted us with his imaginative all-ages work for years, is teaming up with Andy Hirsch
(Adventure Time) to bring us a new twist within the world of Sherlock Holmes. What if the world’s
greatest detective wasn’t quite what he—or she—seemed?
What It Is: It’s a lovely day in 1930s London, right up until a giant stone lion comes to life and starts
wrecking the city! It seems like the perfect case for the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.
Of course, Sherlock Holmes doesn’t actually exist; he is a fictional character created by housekeeper
Mrs. Hudson, who has been the real detective all along, writing Holmes’ adventures under the pen name
of John Watson and running around the city in disguise. With an overwhelmed case load she’ll need the
help of a precocious bunch of young detectives-in-training to solve the mystery of the living statues.
Baker Street will never be the same!
BOOM! STUDIOS
ONGOINGS AND LIMITED SERIES
BILL & TED GO TO HELL #2 (of 4)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Brian Joines
Artist: Bachan
Cover Artist:
Main: Jamal Campbell
Subscription Cover: Conor Nolan
Synopsis: With our heroes facing their worst nightmares, Lincoln finally gets his chance to take down
John Wilkes Booth!
KENNEL BLOCK BLUES #2 (of 4)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Ryan Ferrier
Artist: Daniel Bayliss
Cover Artist: Daniel Bayliss
Synopsis: Oliver and his crack team cook up the perfect routine full of distractions, misdirections, and
red herrings to distract the guards and stage their prison break.
THE LAST CONTRACT #3 (of 4)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Ed Brisson
Artist: Lisandro Estherren
Cover Artist: Lisandro Estherren
Synopsis: The Man and Dillon come under attack from a hired killer whose past intertwines with the
Man’s.
KLAUS #4 (of 6)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Grant Morrison
Artist: Dan Mora
Cover Artist: Dan Mora
Synopsis: Klaus and Lady Dagmar’s romantic and tragic past is revealed.
VENUS #4 (of 4)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Rick Loverd
Artist: Huang Danlan
Cover Artist: W. Scott Forbes
Synopsis: Final issue! With no government and no rules, how do you punish a traitor?
SNOW BLIND #4 (of 4)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Ollie Masters
Artist: Tyler Jenkins
Cover Artist: Tyler Jenkins
Synopsis: Final issue! Teddy and his family aren’t safe at the cabin when Trent escapes police custody.
WELCOME BACK #6
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Christopher Sebela
Artist: Claire Roe
Cover Artist: Jonathan Brandon Sawyer
Synopsis: Mali and Tessa are on the run from the Sequels trying to take them out.
THE SPIRE #7 (of 8)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Simon Spurrier
Artist: Jeff Stokely
Cover Artist: Jeff Stokely
Synopsis: Penultimate issue! The monumental Pax between the Spire and Zoarim is underway.
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK #16
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Christopher Sebela
Artist: Maxim Simic
Cover Artist: Jason Copland
Synopsis: Final issue! Snake’s showdown with the U.S. government comes to an end in Ohio.
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA #22
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Fred Van Lente
Artist: Victor Santos
Cover Artist: Jeffrey “Chamba” Cruz
Synopsis: 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!
KABOOM!
ONGOINGS AND LIMITED SERIES
STEVEN UNIVERSE AND THE CRYSTAL GEMS #2 (of 4)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Josceline Fenton
Artist: Chrystin Garland
Cover Artists:
Main: Kat Leyh
Subscription Cover: Jeremy Sorese
Variant Cover: Mildred Lewis
Synopsis: After Pearl’s story of the glass monster, Steven has started having nightmares that it is real.
What will he do when the people of Beach City start turning to glass?
ADVENTURE TIME: ICE KING #3 (of 6)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Emily Partridge
Artist: Natalie Andrewson
Cover Artists:
Main: Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb
Subscription Cover: Kate Glasheen
Incentive Cover: Katie O’Neill
Synopsis: Ice King is starting to fit in with the cool wizard group, but his friends can tell he’s changing for
the worst.
REGULAR SHOW #33
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Shanna Matuszak
Artist: Will Kirkby
Cover Artists:
Main: Allison Strejlau
Subscription Cover: Matthew Smigiel
Synopsis: Rigby signs up for an online dating site and reconnects with an old girlfriend, not recalling why
they broke up in the first place.
ADVENTURE TIME #50
Retail Price: $4.99
Writer: Christopher Hastings
Artist: Ian McGinty
Cover Artists:
Main: Ian McGinty
Subscription Cover: Jorge Corona
Incentive Cover: Shelli Paroline & Braden Lamb
Incentive Cover: Jeffrey Brown
Synopsis: This special oversized one-shot issue introduces new series artist Ian McGinty (Welcome to
Showside, Bravest Warriors)! Finn takes a tour of his past lives when he astral projects through an old
photo album. Features special incentive covers by the original Adventure Time art team, Shelli Paroline
& Braden Lamb, and Jeffrey Brown (Darth Vader and Son)!
BOOM! BOX
ONGOINGS AND LIMITED SERIES
JONESY #2 (of 4)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Sam Humphries
Artist: Caitlin Rose Boyle
Cover Artist: Caitlin Rose Boyle
Synopsis: 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!
GIANT DAYS #12
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: John Allison
Artist: Max Sarin
Cover Artist: Lissa Treiman
Synopsis: When Esther and Susan get mega bummed-out and are feeling non-jazzed about life, Daisy
takes them camping up in the peaks to feel better.
MUNCHKIN #15
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Len Peralta
Artist: Len Peralta
Cover Artist: Len Peralta
Synopsis: Spyke and Flower go to a comic convention.
LUMBERJANES #24
Retail Price: $3.99
Writers: Shannon Watters & Kat Leyh
Artist: Carey Pietsch
Cover Artists:
Main: Kat Leyh
Incentive: Kelsey Short
Synopsis: The Lumberjanes wrap up their adventure with Seafarin’ Karen and Molly gains a greater
understanding of shapeshifters.
ARCHAIA
ONGOINGS AND LIMITED SERIES
JIM HENSON’S THE STORYTELLER: DRAGONS #4 (of 4)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writers: Jorge Corona
Artist: Jorge Corona
Cover Artist: Jorge Corona
Synopsis: 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.
LANTERN CITY #11
Retail Price: $3.99
Writers: Matthew Daley & Mairghread Scott
Artist: Carlos Magno
Cover Artist: Benjamin Carré
Synopsis: The battle for Grey Towers rages and loyalties are divided.
BOOM! STUDIOS
TPS, OGNS, AND HARDCOVERS
OH, KILLSTRIKE TP
Retail Price: $14.99
Writer: Max Bemis
Artist: Logan Faerber
Cover Artist: Logan Faerber
What’s to Love: Say Anything frontman Max Bemis writes a love letter to 1990s superhero comics in this
tongue-in-cheek homage to the era, featuring the art stylings of Logan Faerber—reminiscent of works by
Chip Zdarsky and Jeff Lemire. Much like Polarity, Oh, Killstrike is very personal to Bemis. Part twisted
buddy comedy, part profound coming-of-age story, we couldn’t stop smiling when reading Oh, Killstrike.
What It Is: Jared, a new father, fears parenthood. An old comics fan, he turns to them for comfort. But
when he unwittingly lets loose his favorite character, Killstrike—a single-minded, vengeance-loving antihero—onto
the world, Jared must find a way to send him back before he harms all the people he loves
the most. Collects the complete mini-series, issues #1-4.
