BOOM! Studios is a unique publishing house specializing in high-profile projects across a wide variety of different genres from some of the industry's biggest talents, including Philip K. Dick's DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?, The Henson Company's FARSCAPE, and the original Mark Waid series IRREDEEMABLE.

BOOM! recently launched its youth imprint, BOOM Kids!, with Pixar's THE INCREDIBLES, CARS, and TOY STORY, as well as Disney's THE MUPPETS, DONALD DUCK, UNCLE SCROOGE and WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES. This year, BOOM! Studios celebrates its fifth anniversary.

BOOM! Studios is quickly on the rise, continuously putting out high quality titles from high quality creators, reaching a wide variety of audiences through it's three imprints, the main arm, BOOM! Kids! and the new BOOM! Town. BOOM! has also cultivated followings based on their licensed properties like the ones mentioned above.

Haven Distributors is proud to be distributing the entire BOOM! lineup and to be doing business with all the powers that be behind this sleeping giant that is BOOM! Studios.

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Imagine an alternate earth where battles are fought in the air by dirigibles; where Jesus was a female and the Jews accepted her as the Messiah; where the Roman Empire has survived into current day; where World War Two never happened and the League of Nations grew into a world power. This is the world of the Boston Bombers.

Imagine a female version of Doc Savage! The Bombers are a group of high flying agents working for the League, led by the fearless Indra Devine and includes ace pilot Violet "Rocky" Felicity and engineer/mechanic Copper Feladh. When one of Devine's oldest friends, scientist Gena Wilhem, becomes a pawn in a game of political intrigue between the League and Rome South Africa, it's up to the Boston Bombers unravel the plot and save the day.

THE BOSTON BOMBERS is pulp writer Ron Fortier's most imaginative and original adventure to date. It is a magnificent stew of pulp, science fiction and socio/political speculation like nothing you've ever read before. Originally released from Caliber Press, this comic has long been out of print and is here collected for the very first time. The Boston Bombers contains 174 pages in glorious black and white with color covers, design and front cover art by Rob Davis. Interiors feature the talents of Gary Kato, Chris Jones and Bob Cram, Jr. with a special introduction by science fiction author, Van Allen Plexico (Sentinels). So start the props, buckle up and get ready to soar into action. It's time for...BOMBS AWAY!!

RACE CARS, LASERS, AEROPLANES!
LIFE IS LIKE A HURRICANE ONCE AGAIN
ONLY FROM DISNEY PUBLISHING
WORLDWIDE AND BOOM KIDS!

One of the most action-packed Disney franchises returns to the comic page in a big way this summer from BOOM Kids! Mickey's Mailbag has been overflowing with requests for a trip back to the world of The Disney Afternoon, and because the fans demanded it...DuckTales returns starting in UNCLE SCROOGE #392 this June.

The premiere of DuckTales in UNCLE SCROOGE #392 will appear on store shelves the same month as BOOM!'s new DARKWING DUCK mini-series that was announced this past weekend.

"DuckTales is one of the most beloved television shows of the ';90s," said BOOM Kids! editor Aaron Sparrow. "It's just spectacular to be bringing it back for a whole new generation to discover and enjoy!"

The fun begins in UNCLE SCROOGE #392, as BOOM Kids! kicks off the four-issue arc, "Like a Hurricane!" Fans of both the groundbreaking animated series and the classic Carl Barks comics it was based on will delight at the chance to get their hands on these stories, never before seen in the United States, that are coupled with some old favorites printed at the time of the original television series.

Non-stop adventure is what's in store when Uncle Scrooge is accompanied by his nephews, plus the unpredictable Lauchpad McQuack! Add in some super-heroics from the amazing Gizmoduck, and you have a recipe for an epic good time!

The first Duck Tales arc starting in UNCLE SCROOGE #392 includes scripts by veteran Disney writers Paul Halas, Tom Anderson, Didier le Bornec, Chris Weber, Karen Willson, Doug Murray and Regis Maine with outstanding art by modern masters Xavier Vives Mateu, Jose Maria Carreras, Roberto Santillo, Cosme Quartieri, Wanda Gattino, and Jose Cardona Blasi.

UNCLE SCROOGE #392 contains the first installments of the "Like a Hurricane!" saga entitled "The Everlasting Coal" which is written by Paul Halas & Tom Anderson, with interior art by Xavier Vives Mateu. UNCLE SCROOGE #392 also includes the classic backup "The Littlest Gizmoduck" written by Chris Weber and Karen Willson with interiors by Roberto Santillo. This kick-off issue features two covers in a 50/50 split by Michel Nadorp and Magic Eye Studios and carries a cover price of $2.99 and ships this June.

Scott D.M. Simmons took some photos of the publishers exhibiting at Haven's Indy Island at C2E2 last month, including Spike, Dirk Tiede, HB Comics, GT Labs and more!

BOOM! STUDIOS @ TORONTO COMICS ART FESTIVAL

Tables #170 & 171

BOOM! STUDIOS GUESTS INCLUDE:

Eisner Award-Nominated
THE MUPPET SHOW COMIC BOOK's Roger Langridge
THE INCREDIBLES' Marcio Takara
WALL-E's J. Torres

SCHEDULED SIGNINGS & PANELS

Saturday, May 8, 2010 - Tables # 170 & 171
10:00 - 11:00am - J. Torres Signing at BOOM! Tables
10:00am - 12:50pm - Roger Langridge signing at BOOM! Tables
1:00 - 2:00pm - Roger Langridge Spotlight Panel with Tom Spurgeon
3:00 - 4:00pm - Marcio Takara signing at BOOM! Tables
3:00 - 5:00pm - Roger Langridge signing at BOOM! Tables

Sunday, May 9, 2010 - Tables # 170 & 171
11:00am - 1:00pm - Roger Langridge signing at BOOM! Tables
1:00 - 2:00pm - J. Torres Signing at BOOM! Tables
2:00 - 5:00pm - Roger Langridge signing at BOOM! Tables

Reviewed by David O'Leary

Story by: Carey Malloy
Art by: Scott Godlewski
Colours by: Stephen Downer
Letters by: Johnny Lowe
Cover by: Julian Totino Tedesco
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Cover Price: $3.99

Book Summary : Busting foreign spies on domestic soil. Cracking the code on drug and human trafficking. Shutting down the mob. They are the elite Cryptanalysis Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, examining manually encrypted documents and records of illegal enterprises, providing expert testimony, forensic assistance, and identification of terrorism, foreign intelligence, and criminal activities in support of federal, state, local, and international law enforcement investigations and prosecutions... Ciphers. Codes. Encryption. Passwords. Meet the best of the best at puzzling out the truth and protecting all of us from those that would steal information in ways that can shatter the global community and kill. But what happens to the Cryptanalysis unit when one of their own goes missing? Is it a puzzle the puzzle-solvers can't solve? And will this cipher reveal things about... themselves? In the mode of previous BOOM! series like POTTER'S FIELD, UNTHINKABLE, blockbusters like NATIONAL TREASURE and DAVINCI CODE, and espionage comics from our esteemed competition QUEEN AND COUNTRY and WHITEOUT!

"Chapter 1"

This is the first of a four issue mini series from BOOM! founder Ross Richie and written by newcomer Carey Malloy. Together they bring the rather bookish world of code breaking to a rather more action orientated setting in a commendable first outing.

The story revolves around a set of code breakers, each with a different set of skills that form an overall crack team of cryptographers. The first third of the issue is spent introducing the main protagonists and they have your usual mix of eccentric and old hand characters that you come to expect in reading an ensemble book. But it is the plot twist of the supposed suicide of a bright intelligent young hotshot of a code breaker named Stan that the remainder of the story is set up. Team leader and senior cryptanalyst Donald Foster is the one person who thinks that Stan is still alive and that the suicide was staged. Together with two other team members they set out to prove their theory correct.

The issue ended on a cliffhanger of sorts and I don't know if it was the right call. We spent the majority of the book wondering if Stan was really dead. We were taking Donald at his word, albeit a considerably educated word, that Stan was still alive and the last page reveal made me wonder if the page could not have been left until next issue, thereby leaving the reader to wonder who was right, Donald or the picture from the security camera that caught Stan falling off the bridge. But after just one issue, I will give Malloy the benefit of the doubt.

This book is set in the tone of Queen & Country, but in colour, and reads like it you could be watching a film with a very linear story that is easy to follow. In fact, the books solicitation likens the book National Treasure and The DaVinci Code and I can see why that may be. It is like a somewhat intelligent action film. But like the movies it is likened upon, it won't be everyone's cup of tea.

The art is provided by Scott Godlewski, who is the co-creator of Mysterious Mystery Magazine whose art honestly I thought was hampered a little by the colouring. The story is the kind of script that would have read beautifully in black and white but that is not to take away too much from him as the first issue is just like the writing, competent and without real fault.

I won't dismiss the book on just one issue and there was just enough to entice me to come back and check out the book for the remainder of the series. For a debut effort, Carey Malloy could have done a whole lot worse.

Rating the Book

Reviewed by Brant W. Fowler

Written by: Cary Kelley & Steven Forbes
Art by: Harold Edge
Colors by: Ross Hughes
Letters by: Cary Kelley
Cover by: Harold Edge
Publisher: Red Handed Studios
Specs: 34 Pages, FC
Cover Price: $4.00

Publisher Blurb:

As his final hours play out in bloody tragedy, Justice Theta is finally brought down, but at what cost to the world? The hero community is in shambles. Heroes and villains alike have become casualties in this war, and there may be no clear winner when the dust finally settles. Can the remaining heroes pull things together? Find out as Fallen Justice concludes in this extra sized blow out final issue!

Reviewer's Comments:

Is it all over? Yes, it is.

Normally I would have prefaced that last sentence with the word "sadly", but in this case it's not necessary or needed. Allow me to explain.

I have thoroughly enjoyed this series from the word go. And not because Cary and I are friends - there's no bias here, I promise you. No, I enjoyed it because it is a great concept with vibrant, bold and entertaining characters and a very rich and emotional story that resonates to the very core.

It's because Cary Kelley and Steven Forbes are great writers with great insights into human behavior and the workings of a story.

It's because Harold Edge is a fantastic, stylized artist who won't remain a secret for very long.

It's because Ross Hughes is one of the best colorists in independent comics and, no doubt, soon to be in mainstream should he decide to go that route.

And it's because this story just gets me.