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Preview: Nancy Drew #1

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Nancy Drew #1

writer: Kelly Thompson
artist: Jenn St-Onge
covers: Tula Lotay (A), Marguerite Sauvage (B), Annie Wu (C), Jenn St-Onge (D-Sub)
Marguerite Sauvage (RI-B/W), Annie Wu (RI-Virgin), Tula Lotay (RI-Virgin)
FC | 32 pages | $3.99 | Teen+

Nancy Drew is seventeen and good at everything…ESPECIALLY solving crimes. But her totally-in-control-and-obviously-running-perfectly- smooth-(but-not-really) life hits a snag when a mysterious message drags her back to the hometown she left behind. There she’ll have to find out which of her friends are still her friends, which are enemies, and who exactly is trying to kill her…and (hopefully) stop them before they succeed. KELLY THOMPSON (Hawkeye, Star Wars, Rogue & Gambit) and JENN ST-ONGE (Giant Days, The Misfits) team up to present an all-new modern spin on a classic mystery icon!

Kelly Thompson and Jenn St-Onge Plot New Adventures for Nancy Drew

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Dynamite Entertainment has announced a new series, Nancy Drew, by Kelly Thompson and Jenn St-Onge. The teen sleuth’s latest daring adventure debuts in June, with cover variant artwork by the astonishing assemblage of Tula Lotay, Marguerite Sauvage, Annie Wu, and series artist Jenn St-Onge.

In the new series, Nancy Drew is seventeen and good at everything… especially solving crimes. But her totally-in-control-and-obviously-running-perfectly-smooth-(but-not-really) life hits a snag when a mysterious message drags her back to the hometown she left behind. There she’ll have to find out which of her friends are still her friends, which are enemies, and who exactly is trying to kill her…and (hopefully) stop them before they succeed. Nancy, the classic master teen mystery-cracker, will be shown in a way you’ve never seen before, by a creative team with a huge respect for the original tales, and what she could mean for a modern audience.

Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Reimagined in Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: The Big Lie

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Earlier this year, Dynamite Entertainment further solidified claim to the industry’s leading publisher of licensed comics with news of an exclusive arrangement with Simon & Schuster to bring the beloved characters Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys to comics with all-new adventures!

And with the 2017 release of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: The Big Lie, they are creating a Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mystery unlike any other you’ve ever read…

In this modern take, teenage brothers Frank and Joe Hardy are accused of the murder of their father – a detective in the small resort town of Bayport – and must team up with the femme fatale Nancy Drew to prove their innocence (and find the real guilty party in the process) in a twisting, hardboiled tale, complete with double-crosses, deceit, and dames.

Inspired by new crime classics like Ed Brubaker’s Fatale and Darwyn Cooke’s Parker series, writer Anthony Del Col and artist Werther Dell’Edera bring the iconic teen detectives into the modern age, and redefine noir for a new generation of readers!

Writer Del Col, a big fan of the characters, conceived this unique take years ago and worked to find and secure the license with Dynamite to bring this tale to life.

Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys: The Big Lie is slated for release in March.

Review: Gotham Academy #4

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ga04covFor those that have been reading along with the series or at least following the buzz, they might think that this is a series with a set shelf life, that after a certain amount of time that there are going to be enough mysteries solved that Gotham’s own version of Nancy Drew is simply going to run out of interesting stories.  For any that were thinking this, who thought that issue #3 signaled the start of a downwards spiral for this series, they can instead rest assured that there is still lots of story left to tell in this series, as the compelling mysteries are not one but many.

The presence of the ghost hunt in the previous issue might have seemed like the end of the glue that held the first story together, but the writers prove that they are not afraid to diversify a bit here, not only in terms of content but also context.  While the previous issues dealt with Olive and Maps searching for answers for secrets that they nothing about, here the secrets become a lot deeper as Olive especially is forced to deal with new mysteries such as secret symbols, secret passageways and trying to figure out exactly why Bruce Wayne is so interested in her.  In so doing the characterization here is amazing, and it pays good homage to its intended demographic by not treating its main characters as stereotypes of this age bracket (what was particularly on the mark was what Maps wished for on her birthday.)  This realistic approach to the characters is what makes this series more approachable for all-ages to dive into.

The creative team proves here that they have a lot left in this series.  Far from being a drop off in quality this issue might be the best so far, especially as the shock value has worn off from the first few issues for those that thought that such a series could never be good or entertaining.    Indeed this is one of the best issues that DC has on offer from its wide selection of titles.  It is still tied to superheroes and belongs in the DC Universe, but at the same time it mostly doesn’t and stands on its own by itself as well.

Story: Becky Cloonan and Brendan Fletcher Art: Karl Kerschl
Story: 9.2 Art: 9.2 Overall: 9.2 Recommendation: Buy

NBM September: Dungeon + 20% SALE ends!

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Official Press Release

NBM

DON’T FORGET OUR 20% SALE GOING ON THROUGH THIS JULY 4TH WEEKEND!

Buy $25 full retail worth and you’ll get 20% off. Sales ends July 5th!

Coming this September from NBM and being solicited at your comics store now:

DUNGEON: Monstres
Vol. 3: Heartbreaker
Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, Carlos Nine, Patrice Killoffer
In the first title story, the supremely talented (especially with women) and outrageous Carlos Nine gives us the complete low-down on the sexy and dangerous killer Alexandra that the young Dungeon-keeper fell for so heavily. In the second, Killoffer (“676 Apparitions of Killoffer”) also focuses on a spicy girl, daughter of a prominent character.
6 x 9, 96pp. full color trade pb.: $12.99, ISBN 978-1-56163-591-7

see the preview pages

We have online and in our Fall catalog a special where you can buy all 3 volumes of the Dungeon Monstres sub-series for only $29.99, a 20% discount!

NEW from Eurotica:

The next in this best-selling series!

BARBARIAN CHICKS & DEMONS, Vol. 3
HARTMANN
In medieval times, powerful warrior chicks getting their way shamelessly with warlords to powerful demons themselves! Beautiful fully painted artwork.
81/2x11, 48pp., full color trade pb., $11.99, ISBN 978-1-56163-596-2

See more info on this with cover and art in Eurotica, click on the Coming Up September banner on the left.

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Also, our sister company PAPERCUTZ has these coming out in September:

NANCY DREW in an all-new series of more complex and darker stories!

NANCY DREW THE NEW CASE FILES #1
Vampire Slayer
By Stefan Petrucha and Sarah Kinney
Sho Murase, artist
Nancy Drew in an all-new harder edged series and new format! Vampire-mania has gripped River Heights, with teenage girls going wild over the new “DieLite” novels and movies. But what happens when a supposedly “real” handsome young vampire arrives on the scene? Will Nancy expose him as a fraud – or fall under his dark spell? As if that wasn’t enough– there’s something dark and sinister happening while everyone’s distracted by the vampire madness. Could this possibly be linked to what’s happening in Bayport, home of the Hardy Boys?
6×9, 64pp, full color paperback: $6.99 ISBN: 978-1-59707-213-7
Also in collector’s hardcover at $10.99, ISBN 978-1-59707-214-4
From Tales From the Crypt, the next in our wildly popular spoof DIARY OF A STINKY DEAD KID:

TALES FROM THE CRYPT #9 “Wickeder”
By Stefan Petrucha, David Gerrold, Jim Salicrup
Rick Parker, Mr. Exes, artists

Tales from the Crypt is bigger and “WICKEDER” than ever! After the surprise-success of Tales from the Crypt #8 “Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid,” CRYPT is back and offering an all-new parody of the best-selling “Wicked” book. Plus, the Stinky Dead Kid himself is back in a new story, and Star Trek fan-favorite writer David Gerrold contributes “Sales of a Death Man.”

6×9, 64pp., full color paperback: $6.99 ISBN: 978-1-59707-215-1; also in collector’s hardcover at $10.99 ISBN 978-1-59707-216-8

Not in Diamond Comics Distributors’ Previews but also available in September:

NANCY DREW #17-21 Boxed Set
By Stefan Petrucha and Sarah Kinney
Sho Murase, artist
Collecting FIVE Nancy Drew graphic novels with close to 500 pages of full-color comics! This Nancy Drew set has the two part stories “The Secret Within,” where Nancy travels to India, and “High School Musical Mystery” where Nancy Drew teams up with the Dana Girls! A great collection for any Nancy Drew fan.
5×7 1/2, 5 volumes in a box, 484 pp, full color: $39.99
ISBN: 978-1-59707-211-3



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