Sneak Peeks: BOOM! Studios January 23, 2019

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

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #1
Writer: Jordie Bellaire
Artist: Dan Mora
Colorist:Raúl Angulo 
Letterer: Ed Dukeshire
Main Cover A: Matthew Taylor
Main Cover B: Kevin Wada
Main Cover C: Royal Dunlap (Virgin)
Preorder Cover D: Becca Carey (Virgin)
Incentive Cover E: Jen Bartel
Incentive Cover F: Jen Bartel
Unlocked Slayer Variant G: Miguel Mercado
Unlocked Willow Variant H: Kaiti Infante
Unlocked Vampire Variant I: Miguel Mercado
Unlocked Vampire Willow Variant J: Kaiti Infante

  • Go back to the beginning as the critically acclaimed pop culture phenomenon Buffy The Vampire Slayer is reimagined under the guidance of series creator Joss Whedon.
  • This is the Buffy Summers you know, who wants what every average teenager wants: friends at her new school, decent grades, and to escape her imposed destiny as the next in a long line of vampire slayers tasked with defeating the forces of evil.
  • But her world looks a lot more like the one outside your window, as Jordie Bellaire (Redlands) and Russ Manning Award-Winner Dan Mora (Saban’s Go Go Power Rangers) bring Buffy into a new era with new challenges, new friends...and a few enemies you might already recognize. But the more things change, the more they stay the same, as the Gang faces brand new Big Bads, and the threat lurking beneath the perfectly manicured exterior of Sunnydale High confirms what every teenager has always known: high school truly is hell.
  • WELCOME BACK TO THE HELLMOUTH, FOR THE FIRST TIME!



THE AVANT-GUARDS #1
Writer: Carly Usdin
Artist: Noah Hayes
Colorist: Rebecca Nalty
Letterer: Ed Dukeshire
Main Cover: Noah Hayes
Preorder Cover: Veronica Fish
Unlocked Retailer Variant: Siobhan Keenan

  • Giant Days meets Check, Please, from the creator of Heavy Vinyl!
  • Welcome to the Georgia O’Keeffe College of Arts and Subtle Dramatics, an historically all-female school whose population is decidedly more drama geek than jock.
  • Liv, aspiring actor and basketball enthusiast, doesn’t understand why she can’t be both, but she seems alone in that belief...until Charlie.
  • Charlie is a recent transfer, a star basketball player, and the answer to all of Liv’s problems. She’ll stop at nothing to get Charlie to join the ragtag group of misfits that make up their fledgling basketball team.
  • Carly Usdin (Heavy Vinyl) and Noah Hayes (Goldie Vance) present a touching tale about finding what you’re looking for... on and off the court.


JIM HENSON'S BENEATH THE DARK CRYSTAL #6
Writer: Adam Smith
Artist: Alexandria Huntington
Colorist: Laura Langston
Letterer: Jim Campbell
Main Cover: Benjamin Dewey
Preorder Cover: David Petersen

Thurma tests her new Fireling abilities with dangerous results while Kensho and the others seal the fate of the town of Dagger Root… for better or worse.



LOW ROAD WEST #5
Writer: Phillip Kennedy Johnson
Artist: Flaviano
Letterer: Miquel Muerto
Colorist: Jim Campbell
Cover Artist: Flaviano

Forced from the only refuge they have been able to find, the teenage refugees must face off once and for all against the enemy that surrounds them… and the enemy within them.


OVER THE GARDEN WALL: HOLLOW TOWN #5
Writer: Celia Lowenthal
Artist: Jorge Monlongo
Colorist: Kike J. Diaz
Letterer: Mike Fiorentino
Main Cover: Celia Lowenthal
Preorder Cover: Natalie Hall

Hollow Town has sprung it’s trap on Wirt, Greg, and Beatrice, and they must work together if they have any hope of escaping back to the Unknown to continue on their journey home.



SMOOTH CRIMINALS #3
Writer: Kiwi Smith & Kurt Lustgarten
Artist: Leisha Riddel
Letterer: Ed Dukeshire
Colorist: Brittany Peer
Cover Artist:  Audrey Mok

With their heist all planned out and the clock counting down, Mia and Brenda are ready to case the place and make their move. Sneaking into the exhibit hall should be cake, but going unnoticed? To pull that off, they’ll both have to shape up and work on playing their part: with Mia trying to pass herself off as a modern 1990s woman, and Brenda as a high-society dame!


STEVEN UNIVERSE #24
Writer: Grace Kraft
Artist: Rii Abrego
Colorist: Whitney Cogar
Letterer: Mike Fiorentino
Main Cover: Missy Pena
Preorder Cover:  Alex Chiu

Steven, Connie, and the Crystal Gems work together to restore a historic site special to the Crystal Gems from the past.