Sneak Peeks: BOOM! Studios August 8, 2018

The Fellowship has obtained sneak peeks of comics from the publisher that will come out this week...

BLACK BADGE #1
Writer: Matt Kindt
Artist: Tyler Jenkins
Main Cover: Matt Kindt
Intermix Cover: Tyler Jenkins
Incentive Cover: Jeff Lemire
Unlocked Retailer Variant: John Paul Leon
Colorist: Hilary Jenkins
Letterer: Jim Campbell

  • Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins, the Eisner Award-nominated team behind Grass Kings, reunite for a new ongoing series about a top-secret, elite branch of boy scouts tasked by the government to take on covert missions.
  • Among their organization, the Black Badges are the elite; the best of the best. They are feared even by the other badges. The missions they take are dangerous, and they will only get worse as their leader’s attention is split between their mission and tracking down a lost team member. A member who disappeared years ago, presumed dead. 
  • A haunting look at foreign policy, culture wars and isolationism through the lens of kids who know they must fix the world that adults have broken.



GARFIELD: HOMECOMING #3
Writer: Scott Nickel
Artist: Ben Sears
Cover Artist: Andy Hirsch with Ben Sears
Colorist: Lisa Moore
Letterer: Jim Campbell

Garfield meets a young bearded hipster who lives in a tiny house and works in an Italian restaurant. It seems like heaven, spending every night surrounded by pasta, right up until robbers come to take it all away! Artist Ben Sears joins writer Scott Nickel for the penultimate installment of this limited series.


LUMBERJANES: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SCHEME #1
Writer: Nicole Andelfinger
Artist: Maddi Gonzalez, Brittney Williams
Main Cover: Natacha Bustos
Subscription Cover: Brittney Williams
Letterer: Ariana Maher

The Midsummer Masquerade and it’s not exactly a dream. When the question of a couples costume throws Mal and Molly’s relationship into disarray, the rest of the Lumberjanes scramble to help them. And of course now all the decorations are starting to disappear.


MECH CADET YU #11
Writer: Greg Pak
Artist: Takeshi Miyazawa
Cover Artist: Takeshi Miyazawa
Colorist: Jessica Kholinne
Letterer: Simon Bowland

The penultimate issue of the smash series, as Stanford, Park and Skip must save the world...but first they have to save each other.


ROBOCOP: CITIZENS ARREST #5
Writer: Brian Wood
Artist: Jorge Coelho
Main Cover: Nimit Malavia
Subscription Cover: David Rubin
Colorist: Doug Garbark
Letterer: Ed Dukeshire

The New RoboCops debut here, as Alex Murphy—the original RoboCop—faces his ultimate enemy.