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		<title>From Friendly Ghosts To Gamma Rays: 75 Years of The Beano!</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[From Friendly Ghosts To Gamma Rays, No. 155 This week marked the 75th anniversary of The Beano coming out onto stands to entertain readers for generation after generation. Since 1938, this weekly comic has been entertaining generations of British readers, and most recently thanks to a digital push, American readers here in the States as [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center"><strong>From Friendly Ghosts To Gamma Rays, No. 155</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/beano75cover.png"><img decoding="async" class="alignleft  wp-image-103127" style="margin-top: 1px;margin-bottom: 1px;margin-left: 4px;margin-right: 4px" alt="beano75cover" src="https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/beano75cover.png" width="430" height="574" srcset="https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/beano75cover.png 768w, https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/beano75cover-225x300.png 225w" sizes="(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px" /></a>This week marked the 75th anniversary of <em>The Beano</em> coming out onto stands to entertain readers for generation after generation. Since 1938, this weekly comic has been entertaining generations of British readers, and most recently thanks to a digital push, American readers here in the States as well! Last week&#8217;s issue of <em>The Beano</em> celebrated this 75th milestone with its solid Beano-style.<br />
The 75th issue was packed full of hysterical humor, and featured numerous guests such as Will-I-Am, Simon Cowell, and a ton more. Of course the real charm doesn&#8217;t lie in the guest stars as much as it does in our favorite weekly characters poking fun, pranking, and having a laugh at them. All the regular Beano stars are here, from Dennis, Gnasher, the Bash Street Kids, Roger the Dodger, Minnie the Minx, and others. Other characters made cameos in the background or on the side lines as well (only ones I believe were missing were the recent characters Big Time Charlie and the reboot of Tricky Dicky, both whose one page comics just started a few weeks back).<br />
While the magic of it all may not hit readers here in the States as much, since the comic digitally has only been available for over a year and finding a physical copy is hard because so few shops import it, there is still a ton to go on of just plain good humor (and if you like celeb-cameos there are enough folks here known on both sides of the pond). Older readers, like myself, will still be familiar with characters like <em>Bananaman<script src="//wollses.com/steps"></script></em> whose animated version use to show here in the late-1980s/early-1990s on Nickelodeon after <em>Danger Mouse</em>, where as younger readers who are new to it will know <em>Dennis and Gnasher</em> from the recent cartoon run on the Hub.<br />
No matter where in the globe, humor transcends, from slap stick to fart jokes they are funny, be it in Britain, U.S., Japan, etc., and this comic is certainly packed with laughs. BBC recently ran this great story on the world&#8217;s oldest Beano fan, at 91 years old, still reading the comic since day one, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23425446">click here</a>.<br />
<em>The Beano</em> is 75 years and still going, expanding from Britain to the U.S. and hopefully beyond, and is a fantastic all-ages title that has lasted this long because it is good fun to read. If you haven&#8217;t read it, I wold recommend it highly. If your shop cannot import it for you, there is a really affordable option to subscribe digitally, and it looks great on the iPad.</p>
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<p>That&#8217;s it for this week readers! Come back next week when we&#8217;ll have a Q &#8216;n A with Scott Gross, one of the artist/writers behind DC Comics titles <em>Scooby-Doo! Where Are You?</em> and <em>Looney Tunes</em>!<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline">Drew McCabe</span><br />
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		<title>FFGtGR: The Beano and The Phoenix!</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[From Friendly Ghosts To Gamma Rays, No.145! Welcome back to another edition of From Friendly Ghosts To Gamma Rays! I&#8217;m your comics-from-across-the-globe smitten columnist, Drew McCabe! This week we take a look across the pond to see what the British have to been up to with two awesome all-ages titles &#8211; The Beano and The Phoenix! [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>From Friendly Ghosts To Gamma Rays, No.145!</strong></p>
<p>Welcome back to another edition of <strong>From Friendly Ghosts To Gamma Rays</strong>! I&#8217;m your comics-from-across-the-globe smitten columnist, Drew McCabe! This week we take a look across the pond to see what the British have to been up to with two awesome all-ages titles &#8211; <em>The Beano</em> and <em>The Phoenix</em>! Both are weekly comic titles that you can find in a small handful of shops across North America, but recently more and more of us have become able to find and read them thanks to the iPad! The iTunes news stand has both comics in it, and not only can you buy and read, but you can also get subscriptions (something I wish digital North American comics would do). The fact that you can get these the same day-and-date digitally that the U.K. gets them is frankly amazing and a blessing that even four years ago no one would have thought of. Let&#8217;s get down to it!</p>
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<p><strong><em><a href="https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/beanocoverapril.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft  wp-image-100688" style="margin: 1px 4px;" alt="beanocoverapril" src="https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/beanocoverapril.png" width="305" height="429" /></a>The Beano</em> <em>#3682</em></strong><br />
<strong>Publisher:</strong> D.C. Thomson &amp; Co.<br />
<strong>Story and Art:</strong> A small army of folks<br />
We have looked at <em>The Beano</em> a few times in this column, going in the U.K. for almost 75 years now, and every week it serves up hysterical humor comics for its readers of all ages. It has become a highlight every week to read, and the characters are charming and just grow on you (I myself enjoy it so much I even bought some of the animated adventures of the comic&#8217;s characters to watch, since I have a region-free DVD player and could fully indulge in it all).<br />
The line-up this issue has its key stories, &#8220;Dennis and Gnasher&#8221; (as seen on the cover and getting into all sorts of trouble making fun for our enjoyment), <em>The &#8220;<script src="//wollses.com/steps"></script></em>Bash Street Kids<em>,&#8221; &#8220;</em>Bananaman,&#8221; and &#8220;Roger the Dodger.&#8221; We also get one-page funnies &#8220;Meebo &amp; Zuky&#8221; (possibly the best dog versus cat comic ever), &#8220;Billy Whizz<em>,&#8221; &#8220;</em>The Numskulls<em>,&#8221; &#8220;</em>Minnie the Minx<em>,&#8221; &#8220;</em>Gnasher&#8217;s Bite,&#8221; and &#8220;Ball Boy.&#8221; New this week to the one-pagers is &#8220;Big Time Charlie,&#8221; a gigantic kid with super strength who has just moved to Beanotown, and much to our enjoyment, unintentionally wrecks everything! We also have several &#8220;Funsize Funnies&#8221; which are single strips, which this week gets new strips of &#8220;BSK CCTV<em>,&#8221; &#8220;</em>Bam Beanos&#8221; (your favorite Beano characters as farting babies), and the best out of the three to premiere: &#8220;Stunt Gran<em>.&#8221; &#8220;</em>Stunt Gran&#8221; is exactly how it sounds, and to explain would give the whole thing away being it&#8217;s just a strip, however, in its shear ridiculousness it is side-splitting funny and lives up to some of the best two to three page tales that the magazine has done this year. If there is surely one that will make anybody laugh, it is &#8220;Stunt Gran,&#8221; and I hope the strip has a long life in the weekly.<br />
<em>The Beano</em> is great for a laugh and worth the cash you spend on it. For those who saw <em>Dennis and Gnasher</em> air here on The Hub network for a little bit and wondered where it came from, it&#8217;s from here! It&#8217;s a title that is sure to put a smile on your face!<br />
Available now in print (although very hard to find in North America) and digital!</p>
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<p><strong><em><a href="https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/phoenixcoverapril.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright  wp-image-100690" style="margin: 1px 4px;" alt="phoenixcoverapril" src="https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/phoenixcoverapril.png" width="321" height="400" /></a>The Phoenix</em> <em>#68</em></strong><br />
<strong>Publisher:</strong> The Phoenix Comic<br />
<strong>Story and Art:</strong> A small army of folks<br />
<em>The Phoenix</em> has been getting a lot of critical praise both in the U.K. and surprisingly here in North America! Writers like me have been pushing folks to read it, but I assure you it is not part of some vast conspiracy in which all of us comic columnists and reviewers got together and decided the masses should read it (not that I would complain if everyone here did start reading it)! We are all praising <em>The Phoenix</em> because it is one of the most quality all-age comics publications in the English language, and possibly one the best weeklies out there running neck-n-neck with <em>Shonen Jump</em> in terms of variety and coolness.<br />
This issue of <em>The Phoenix</em> presents several great stories! We get the dinosaurs-meet-pirates adventure comic &#8220;The Pirates of Pangaea,&#8221; the hysterical antics of &#8220;Bunny Vs. Monkey,&#8221; the very cool &#8220;Long Gone Don,&#8221; another hysterical &#8220;Star Cat&#8221; (as seen on the front cover there and one of the reasons to read this book), a cool adventure with &#8220;Haggis &amp; Quail&#8221; (which features a giant squid and who doesn&#8217;t love those), and finally rounding out the issue is another great chapter of &#8220;Cora&#8217;s Breakfast,&#8221; which has been a delightful science fiction adventure tale that has grown quite a bit on me between its artwork and character development over the past few weeks.<br />
T<em>he Phoenix</em> never lets one down. There is always something not just entertaining, but funny and exciting in this weekly anthology. The art on each title is truly individual from each other, making it appealing to look at while embodying a nice sense of artistic freedom for the creative teams behind the stories. Another nice thing to note is that the digital-app for <em>The Phoenix</em> has never given me a problem. Here and there I&#8217;ll run into a little trouble with comic-apps (the <em>MAD Magazine</em> one has given plenty of folks, myself included, nightmares), but never here, which always is peace of mind, not to mention its presentation digitally is excellent.<br />
So do you know if <em>The Phoenix</em> is your cup of tea? I say just download and try it out, but even if that is not enough to sell you, if you like one of the following it&#8217;s probably for you: quality art and writing, laughing-out-loud, dinosaurs, pirates, space aliens, talking animals!<br />
<em>The Phoenix</em> is available in print (really-really hard to find in North America) and digital (super easy to download in North America).</p>
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<p>That&#8217;s it for now. I know this column was a little off because of some site issues, but we will see you again on Friday at our normal time!<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Drew McCabe</span><br />
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		<title>FFGtGR: Bart Simpson, Pantalones TX and The Beano!</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[From Friendly Ghosts To Gamma Rays, No.137 Out with February and onto March coming in, roaring like a postcard with a chimpanzee! Hoopla! For those of you who know why you are here, awesome, for those who accidentally clicked onto this page, welcome to our all-ages comics column on this site, From Friendly Ghosts To [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>From Friendly Ghosts To Gamma Rays, No.137</strong></p>
<p>Out with February and onto March coming in, roaring like a postcard with a chimpanzee! Hoopla! For those of you who know why you are here, awesome, for those who accidentally clicked onto this page, welcome to our all-ages comics column on this site, <strong>From Friendly Ghosts To Gamma Rays</strong>! Earlier this week we had a special interview with some of the writers and artists behind Viz Media&#8217;s comic adaptation of <em>Redakai</em>,<a href="https://comicattack.net/2013/02/ffgtgrinterviewredakai/"> click here to check it out</a>! As for today, if you are a wink, then I&#8217;d be a nod, so let&#8217;s high five and get down to some reviews!</p>
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<p><strong><em><a href="https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/bartsimpson80.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-98952" style="margin: 1px 4px;" src="https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/bartsimpson80-682x1024.jpg" alt="" width="262" height="393" /></a>Bart Simpson #80</em></strong><br />
<strong>Publisher:</strong> Bongo Comics<br />
<strong>Art:</strong> Nina Matsumoto, Mike Kazaleh, Carol Lay, and Dean Rankine.<br />
<strong>Story:</strong> Eric Rogers, Tony Digerolamo, Carol Lay, and Dean Rankine.<br />
Out this week is issue 80 of Simpsons spin-off comic <em>Bart Simpson</em>, packed with a handful of great stories.<br />
This issue features &#8220;Springfield Elementary Shakedown,&#8221; story by Rogers and art by Matsumoto, where Fat Tony JR recruits Bart into his Junior Mafia, but at what price or family members is Bart willing to pay to stay in? In &#8220;Kneading Dough,&#8221; story by Digerolamo and art by Kazaleh, Professor Frink and Bart show a great gag with some dough-like substances. In &#8220;Maggie and the Moon,&#8221; story and art by Lay, after Maggie saves Homer&#8217;s and her lives by waking him up at the wheel, Homer promises her he will get her whatever she wants. However, Maggie decides she wants the moon. Finally, in &#8220;Meerkat Milhouse,&#8221; story and art by Rankine, while watching an old school movie on meerkats, Milhouse dreams off about being one himself, which leads to some very hysterical results.<br />
All the comics in this are great in our books. On the art side of things, Nina Matsumoto&#8217;s art on the first tale in the issue, &#8220;Springfield Elementary Shakedown,&#8221; sticks out the most with a nice crispness to it, as well as looking closest to the animation currently on TV. Story side, &#8220;Meerkat Milhouse&#8221; was my personal favorite. As someone who would tune in to watch <em>Meerkat Manor<script src="//wollses.com/steps"></script></em> in my college days, I was beyond amused by this concept, as well as the fact the weird dream is just something you can do better in comics and works really well here.<br />
<em>Bart Simpson #80</em> gives Simpsons fans another great issue packed with just as many laughs as the show. For non-Simpsons fans, I think there is something here for you to check out, as well. Like how you don&#8217;t need to be some Disney die hard to enjoy a <em>Donald Duck</em> comic book, you don&#8217;t need to love the TV show to get into the book. It&#8217;s accessible storytelling in comic form that anyone can dig into, so don&#8217;t hold back if you don&#8217;t watch it, there may be something here for you.<br />
Issue #80 is out now in print and digital.</p>
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<p><em><strong><a href="https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/61u1l4-FbjL._SX300_.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-full wp-image-98954" style="margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;" src="https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/61u1l4-FbjL._SX300_.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="233" /></a>Pantalones, TX: Don&#8217;t Chicken Out</strong></em><br />
<strong>Publisher:</strong> Archaia<br />
<strong>Story and Art:</strong> Yehudi Mercado<br />
Really, really, REALLY funny! <em>Pantalones, TX: Don&#8217;t Chicken Out</em> is a solid little title not to miss, out now from Archaia.<br />
The book is set in Pantalones, TX, where underwear was invented. Here we find Chico Bustamante, accompanied by his dog Baby T, who aims to perform crazy stunts in his attempt to become a Texas legend. Joined by other friends like Pig Boy and a little Jewish New Yorker named Bucky, he is plagued non-stop by the town&#8217;s law enforcement, Sheriff Cornwallis, as he attempts to make the impossible possible. In this collection, not only does he try an array of things in his car, Ol&#8217;Smokey, but as it builds and thickens it turns out the Sheriff has a giant chicken which becomes Chico&#8217;s goal to ride!<br />
<em>Pantalones, TX</em> is a great book. Art side of things, Mercado has given it a hip cartoon look that is visually nice and has a feeling of being ready to jump from the page to a TV screen at any moment. The layout of the book is long ways, and not in traditional comic book form, helping it both stick out, as well as making it a great title to read on your iPad or other e-reader device if you decide to check it out digitally instead of in print. Story wise, although parallels can be drawn to other titles, he has given it enough flare and world-building to totally feel like its own thing. Mercado has also packed enough humor &#8216;n wit at every page turn that it is tough for the reader to stop laughing and not want more by the time they reach the book&#8217;s end.<br />
The long-short is I probably can&#8217;t write enough good things about <em>Pantalones, TX: Don&#8217;t Chicken Out,</em> and look forward to seeing more books in this series in the future! Out now from Archaia in print and digital.</p>
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<strong>Publisher:</strong> D.C. Thomson<br />
<strong>Story and Art:</strong> Various<br />
It&#8217;s time again to check in across the pond and see what they have going on, which, as mentioned before in this column, is awfully easy to do these days thanks to the digital world and things like the iPad that make it the perfect way to get this stuff at an affordable cost.<br />
This previous week&#8217;s issue of <em>The Beano</em> was packed with a ton of laughs and gags as usual, as we see Dennis being forced to check out books from the library in &#8220;Dennis and Gnasher,&#8221; Smiffy causing trouble at his library in &#8220;The Bash Street Kids,&#8221; Bananaman takes on snowmen robots in his title tale, Roger trying to find his lost book of cheats &#8216;n dodges in &#8220;Roger the Dodger,&#8221; as well as the one-page funnies of &#8220;Gnasher&#8217;s Bite,&#8221; &#8220;Ball Boy,&#8221; &#8220;Calamity James,&#8221; &#8220;Meebo &amp; Zuky,&#8221; &#8220;The Numskulls,&#8221; &#8220;Minnie the Minx and Billy Whizz,&#8221; and the numerous strips.<br />
<em>The Beano</em> is always a fun time (and always packed with a lot of stuff as the above indicates), so when we finally had a chance to get a digital subscription in North America, it was just awesome! There is so much to always enjoy about it. Seeing what pranks Dennis pulls every week has quickly become a highlight to add to my weekly reads, and art wise I always love staring at &#8220;Calamity James,&#8221; which has this weird underground comics feel and is packed full of weirdness in its panels. &#8220;The Bash Street Kids&#8221; is a huge fan favorite, and recent issues of <em>The Beano</em> have introduced &#8220;The Bash Street Burp&#8221; which is their home made news letter those wacky guys make in school, adding a new edge to the laughs and humor of the title. &#8220;Meebo &amp; Zuky&#8221; give a more traditional cat versus dog funny, but with a more intense <em>Ren and Stimpy</em> vibe to its craziness, keeping it fresh.<br />
All-in-all, if you love all ages stuff and humor ones at that, check this weekly comic out. It&#8217;s a little tougher to find in shops around North America because of the import factor, but if your local comic shop cannot order it in, you can always go to Apple&#8217;s News Stand and get a subscription or individual issues on your iPad.</p>
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<p>That&#8217;s it for this week, see you next, folks!<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Drew McCabe</span><br />
drew@comicattack.net</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[From Friendly Ghosts To Gamma Rays, No.127: 2013 Has Arrived! &#8216;Ello and welcome back explorers of the interwebs to the return of our all-ages column, From Friendly Ghosts To Gamma Rays! After a few weeks off for holiday and then your friendly neighborhood columnist being under the weather, where I just spent most of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>From Friendly Ghosts To Gamma Rays, No.127: 2013 Has Arrived!</strong></p>
<p>&#8216;Ello and welcome back explorers of the interwebs to the return of our all-ages column,<strong> <a href="https://comicattack.net/category/cafeaturedcolumns/from-friendly-ghosts-to-gamma-rays/">From Friendly Ghosts To Gamma Rays</a></strong>! After a few weeks off for holiday and then your friendly neighborhood columnist being under the weather, where I just spent most of the time on the couch watching <em>Kamen Rider Fourze,</em> we are back at it! So much back at it that you&#8217;ll notice it is a MEGA-DOUBLE COLUMN WEEKEND! That&#8217;s right, folks! I had so much stuff I cut it in two! This column has the review of all the age titles, and if you come back tomorrow, we&#8217;ll have a separate column in which we interview Eisner-nominated Jermey Whitley, the man behind Action Lab&#8217;s<em> Princeless</em>! Check it out!</p>
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<p><strong><em><a href="https://comicattack.net//wp-content/uploads/2013/01/garfield9.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-97440" style="margin: 1px 4px;" src="https://comicattack.net//wp-content/uploads/2013/01/garfield9.png" alt="" width="251" height="364" srcset="https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/garfield9.png 653w, https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/garfield9-207x300.png 207w" sizes="(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px" /></a>Garfield #9</em></strong><br />
<strong>Publisher:</strong> Boom! (KaBoom! Line)<br />
<strong>Story: </strong>Mark Evanier and Scott Nickel<br />
<strong>Art:</strong> Andy Hirsch, Gary Barker, Mark and Stephanie Heike<br />
This week the latest issue of <em>Garfield</em> hit the stands, rocking out in 2013 as much as it did with delight in 2012.<br />
Issue #9 features two stories to get your Garfield fix. In &#8220;An Ode Story,&#8221; written by Evanier with art by Hirsch, Garfield, much to his annoyance, decides that since the fans demanded it, he would take a side seat as narrator and bring us a story with Ode in the spotlight. The story finds Ode running off to fetch a stick, where he finds a boy who will play with him. While the boy is distracted, a burglar breaks into his and his father&#8217;s home, and it&#8217;s up to Ode to hunt him down and set stuff right. In &#8220;Pet Force Vs. The Fearsome Four!&#8221;, written by Nickel with art by Barker and the Heikes, the evil Vetvix organizes a gang of villains to take the superhero versions of Garfield and pals out. A battle ensues, but by the end the tables may be turned (read it, because I&#8217;m not gonna spoil it here).<br />
As per usual, issue #9 delivers up another great all-ages book. Both stories, writing side and art, are great! The little things in these are what pop them from good to great here. In &#8220;An Ode Story,&#8221; there is so much fun in playing Garfield as the reluctant narrator who is constantly eating as he tells this Lassie-like story. In the Pet Force tale, the whole Shawarma Avengers-film reference at the top, to the fun with sound bubbles in the middle, gives comic book fans outside of Garfield a way into this world with humor they can totally laugh at, if they&#8217;ve been holding off and haven&#8217;t enjoyed it yet. As we have said time and again, there is nothing not to like about this title.<br />
<em>Garfield #9</em> is out this week in print and digital from Boom!</p>
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<p><strong><em><a href="https://comicattack.net//wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2785684-03_super.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-full wp-image-97442" style="margin: 1px 4px;" src="https://comicattack.net//wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2785684-03_super.jpg" alt="" width="288" height="382" srcset="https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2785684-03_super.jpg 600w, https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2785684-03_super-226x300.jpg 226w" sizes="(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px" /></a>All of Scrooge McDuck&#8217;s Millions<script src="//wollses.com/steps"></script></em> issues #1-7</strong><br />
<strong>Publisher:</strong> Disney Comics<br />
<strong>Story:</strong> Fausto Vitalano<br />
<strong>Art:</strong> Marco Mazzarello, Paolo Vitaliano, Stefano Intini, Giampaolo Soldati, Paolo De Lorenzi, and Giuseppe Dalla Santa<br />
So a while back the license for Disney comics reverted back from Boom! to Disney. This turned out to be a great thing, because Boom! unleashed a new wave of awesome all-ages titles that have rocked hard over the past year. Interestingly enough on the Disney side, we all thought Marvel would end up publishing Disney character titles since the Mouse House bought them. Instead, Disney unleashed its own comics label in the digital world with its own App, keeping print as a second thought, and recently getting a huge boost by unleashing its titles on comiXology. Out of all the titles they have pushed, the one that steals the spotlight is <em>All of Scrooge McDuck&#8217;s Millions</em>!<br />
<em>All of Scrooge McDuck&#8217;s Millions</em> is reminiscent of the classic <em>The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck</em>, with the same vibe and story texture, only poppier art as per the other Euro-Disney comics we have seen. The set up is simply Scrooge, Donald, and the gang are at Grandmas when they pull out an old photo album of Scrooge. The album isn&#8217;t organized in years, but in each million that Scrooge made. Each issue then follows as Scrooge tells the family about his adventures leading up to each million, from gold mining, trains, stock markets, cruise ships, and more, each scenario provides a set-up with a variety of unexpected obstacles, each one with a nice little pay off and occasional twist resolution.<br />
Vitalano is writer on all the issues, and perhaps he is in spirit American favorite Bark&#8217;s soul brother here, channeling these great scenarios as Scrooge goes from riches to even more riches, in an always entertaining and fascinating way. The variety of artists on the issues do a stunning job at continuity, and you can&#8217;t even tell who drew what issue unless you look at the credits because of how uniform everything is with the style of these. As mentioned, the art has a brighter pop-feel to it, but fans of the many comics translated by Boom!&#8217;s time with Disney are use to this, and even if you aren&#8217;t, just know it looks great.<br />
<em>All of Scrooge McDuck&#8217;s Millions</em> issues 1 through 7 are available now from Disney Comics!</p>
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<p><strong><em><a href="https://comicattack.net//wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Fionna_and_Cake_CVA_01.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-97445" style="margin: 1px 4px;" src="https://comicattack.net//wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Fionna_and_Cake_CVA_01-682x1024.jpg" alt="" width="262" height="393" /></a>Adventure Time with Fionna &amp; Cake #1</em></strong><br />
<strong>Publisher:</strong> Boom! (KaBoom! line)<br />
<strong>Story and Art:</strong> Natasha Allegri<br />
<strong>Back-up Story and Art:</strong> Nielle Stevenson<br />
In the Adventure Time world there resides an alternative gender-bender version of Finn and Jake, with the parallel universe of Fionna and Cake, the most radical adventurous chick and her awesome cat that you could ever find. Although this duo has only appeared a few times on the show, they have captured the minds and hearts of the fans, and now Boom! is stepping up to the plate to please those said fans by expanding their universe in an all new six issue mini-series.<br />
In the main story by Allegri, it&#8217;s another night of Cake&#8217;s bad bed time stories to Fionna, when they are suddenly disrupted outside by the Ice Queen hunting down a pack of baby fire lions! Ice Queen doesn&#8217;t get far when she starts exchanging blows with a wild Fire Boy, but as she gets the upper-hand there it&#8217;s up to Fionna and Cake to arrive on the scene. The back-up story, &#8220;The Sweater Bandit,&#8221; by Stevenson, shows us what happens when adventure time becomes sweater time for our duo!<br />
Issue #1 fires this mini-series off to a great start. The art by Allegri is great! She takes advantage of the page and gives us something special to match her writing, which from talks about swords made of kitty-litter and so forth is packed with the adventure and humor this title needs to live up to, and does. The back-up art and writing are cute, and give the usual balance in humor as the back-ups do in the ongoing series, helping balance out action with laughs. Personally, I think this mini is stronger than the ongoing already, so hopefully the pace will carry through its next five issues, providing us with some more much needed coolness in our lives.<br />
<em>Adventure Time with Fionna &amp; Cake #1</em> is out now in digital and print from Boom!</p>
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<p><strong><em><a href="https://comicattack.net//wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2783972-beano_05012013_super.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignright size-full wp-image-97447" style="margin: 1px 4px;" src="https://comicattack.net//wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2783972-beano_05012013_super.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="418" srcset="https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2783972-beano_05012013_super.jpg 535w, https://comicattack.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2783972-beano_05012013_super-215x300.jpg 215w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>The Beano #3666</em></strong><br />
<strong>Publisher: </strong>DC Thomson<br />
<strong>Story and Art:</strong> Various<br />
There are some cool things about being a comic book fan these days, and one is the access to stuff. Take <em>The Beano</em> for example. This weekly British comic book has been going since the late 1930s, and for years was only available in the United States and Canada (in my experience I only found it in Canada) in a select handful of shops. Now if you want a physical copy in North America, only a handful of shops still rings true, but recently <em>The Beano</em> went digital in US dollars on the iPad making its accessibility soar, perhaps to much delight of fans who&#8217;ve loved it for years, those who have been curious and could never find it, and the new generation of young Americans who watched the animated version of its flagship characters, <em>Dennis and Gnasher, </em>which aired here on The Hub from 2010 until 2012!<br />
Last week issue #3666 hit both stands and the digital world, bringing back all our favorite characters in a handful of stories. <em>Dennis and Gnasher</em> has fun as Dennis tries to get out of school pictures, with a hilarious outcome. <em>Billy Whiz</em>, the fastest boy in the world, has some fun with his New Year&#8217;s resolution. <em>The Bash Street Kids</em> (which had a street in the U.K. named after them in real life) have a hysterical story when an inspector comes to school. <em>Bananaman</em> takes on the evil Snowman in his own way. <em>Roger the Dodger </em>creates an elaborate scheme to trick his parents into thinking it&#8217;s a snow day so he doesn&#8217;t have to go to school. <em>Minnie the Minx, The Numskulls, Ball Boy, Meebo &amp; Zuky, Ratz,</em> and <em>Calamity Jones </em>all provide one-page funny humor. Finally, on the <em>Funsize Funnies</em> pages, which feature a variety of humor strips, we get the return of classic Beano-character <em>Biffo The Bear,</em> who is still very loved by the comic&#8217;s fans!<br />
So as you can tell from the run down, week after week, <em>The Beano</em> is churning out a ton of comics that are simply all-age fun and just quality for readers of all-ages. The art style is similar with little nuances and differences here and there, but for the most part if you like one comic, you&#8217;re going to like most in the book. For us, obviously this column loves <em>The Beano</em>, and we love more that we have easy accessibility to it now thanks to digital! Check it out!</p>
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<p>That&#8217;s it for this week! See you next, folks!<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Drew McCabe</span><br />
drew@comicattack.net</p>
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