Pre-order Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong and win signed comics, art & more!

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Tweet Publishers First Second currently have a fun and creative pre-order campaign for the print release of Faith Erin Hicks and Prudence Shen’s Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong. It’s a tiered reward incentive model, with prizes including  not only signed copies of the book itself, but a host of other great First titles, a personalised sketch [...]

Review: The Adventures of Superhero Girl

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TweetSometimes a book comes out that I’m so ridiculously excited about I get paranoid that I’m going to be disappointed in some way. And then it arrives and turns out to be even better than I hoped for. It becomes the book I take everywhere with me to thrust in people’s faces and say, “READ”. [...]

Webcomic alert: Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong

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Tweet Following up on the successful webcomic to print model of FRIENDS WITH BOYS, Faith Erin Hicks is serializing her new GN for First Second, NOTHING CAN POSSIBLY GO WRONG, an adaptation of the YA novel by Prudence Shen. Pru and I will be blogging our way through NCPGW, offering author & cartoonist insights and [...]

J. Torres finds some True Patriots for Canada

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TweetBy Steve Morris Wolverine, Alpha Flight, Jack Bauer, Captain Kirk: many of the most famous heroes in modern history have been Canadian. But despite that, Canada still has a reputation mainly for politeness, rather than spandex-based punching and flying. As an attempt to finally wake the world up to Canada’s innate ability to defeat supervillains, [...]