IDW comics to get a local release this month

[Paul Agnew]

While it's great to have easy (and cheap) access to Drift, I do wish they'd put Sonic the Hedgehog back on the shelves.

Issue 3 should be out by December 10.

[GoktimusPrime]

I don't think many kids really pick up comics these days. Ones that do probably already hit comic shops where possible.

I'm not hugely sure this will be a succesful venture.

I think kids are reading comic books more than ever now! I've had to confiscate comic books on a few occasions in class when kids are reading them instead of doing their classwork, and I've noticed that most of the time when I'm handing out overdue library book notices to kids in my roll call class, they're for overdue comic books!

When I was in school, not that many kids read comic books -- especially in high school when more kids decided to "grow out" of comic books, toys and cartoons (bah!), leaving me a member of an increasing minority. I remember schoolkids used to mock my friend and I cos we'd used to go read Transformers and TMNT comics in the library (fortunately my friend stood up for me and chased those bullies away). But yeah, nowadays a lot more kids are reading comic books - not just nerds. And even girls are reading them too (though they prefer reading manga... graphic novels I see from DC, Marvel etc. are read by boys). Although there's at least one female student at my school who's openly into Batman and Star Wars Clone Wars.

[Krayt]

To kill time at work i've been periodically checking the WP webste for more releases, and today was so bored I emailed asking if their were any more releases coming up....

Hi Michael,

Not at this stage.


Michael Wilkinson

Wilkinson Publishing

[Seraphim Prime]

To kill time at work i've been periodically checking the WP webste for more releases, and today was so bored I emailed asking if their were any more releases coming up....

Shame to hear that. Part of me wanted to support a local business trying to provide people with cheaper books. The other part of me though wanted to know I had the book i wanted and closer to the time of release. If Wilkenson could guarantee that they would probably do better business.