BOOM! Studios holiday gift guide for comic lovers

BOOM! Studios has released a categorized holiday gift guide for comic book fans. Naturally, these titles are all from BOOM!’s own line or from or their partner publisher Archaia Entertainment, but having read a fair number of these we can say that this is actually a pretty solid list for the comic/graphic novel loving person in your life, especially if you want to expose them to good work from other publishers besides Marvel, DC or Image.

We took BOOM!’s list as a starting point and tweaked it a bit, adding or removing some titles based on personal preference and merging a few categories that felt a bit too repetitive, all the while sticking with BOOM! or Archaia titles.

Note that the prices listed here are the official retail prices but by shopping on Amazon you can shave off several bucks. Happy shopping and reading!

For Horror Fans

• Clive Barker’s Next Testament Vol. 1 TP ($14.99) – C0-written by Barker, an apocalyptic tale about God coming to earth and revealing himself as a psychopathic murderer. (See our review.)

• Clive Barker’s Hellraiser Vol. 1: The Dark Watch ($14.99) – Detailing the continuing adventures of Kirsty Cotton, Elliot Spencer (aka Pinhead) and Tiffany set in the ever popular Hellraiser universe.

• 28 Days Later Omnibus TP ($39.99) – Covers the time period between 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later.

• Day Men Vol. 1 TP ($9.99) – About a group of humans employed by vampires to do their bidding during the day when the latter cannot go out.

For Fantasy Fans

• Mouse Guard: Baldwin the Brave and Other Stories HC ($14.99) – An Eisner Award-winning series about anthropomorphized mice in a medieval setting.

• Jim Henson Novel Slipcase Box Set ($49.99) – A collection of the three Henson novelization reprints that BOOM! published this year—Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, and The Storyteller—collected into a handsome slipcase.

• Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand Box Set ($49.99) – Includes a copy of the award-winning Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand original graphic novel hardcover and a copy of Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand: The Illustrated Screenplay hardcover.

 

For Sci-Fi Fans

• RoboCop: The Human Element TP ($14.99) – Four anthology-style one-shots exploring the world of the 2014 reboot.
• The Midas Flesh Vol. 1 TP ($14.99) – A sci-fi reworking of the Greek myth of King Midas who turned everything into gold by touching it.

• Rust Vol. 3: Death of the Rocket Boy Original Graphic Novel HC ($24.99) – The penultimate installment of the critically acclaimed Rust series from creator Royden Lepp.

• Six-Gun Gorilla TP ($19.99) – “Lost in a lawless, post-apocalyptic other-world. Good thing your companion is a…Six-Gun Gorilla!”

 

For Crime Fans

• Hit: 1955 TP ($14.99) – “Los Angeles. It’s 1955. It’s dark; it’s sexy. It’s dangerous… where clandestine groups of LAPD detectives moonlight as sanctioned hitmen knows as ‘Hit Squads.'”

• Dead Letters Vol. 1 TP ($9.99) – “Waking up in a fleabag motel with bandaged arms and a revolver on his desk, Sam doesn’t remember a thing… But the armed men knocking on his door do and Sam will have to use every trick from his forgotten repertoire to outrun and outsmart his way through a hardboiled wonderland of gang wars, femme fatales and big secrets.”
• Sons of Anarchy Vol. 1 TP ($19.99) – Based on the hit FX television series.

 

For Kids & Cartoon Fans

• Peanuts: The Beagle Has Landed, Charlie Brown! Original Graphic Novel TP ($9.99) – The Peanuts characters head to outer space in this licensed graphic novel using the beloved characters of Charles M. Schultz.
• Adventure Time Vol. 6 TP ($14.99) – Based on the Cartoon Network’s animated series.

• Adventure Time: Bitter Sweets Original Graphic Novel TP ($12.99)

• Adventure Time: Marceline and the Scream Queens Mathematical Edition HC ($39.99)

• Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake Mathematical Edition HC ($39.99)

• Bravest Warriors Vol. 3 TP ($14.99) – Based on the animated web series.

• Regular Show: Hydration Original Graphic Novel TP ($12.99) – Based on the animated sitcom, also on Cartoon Network.

• Over the Garden Wall Special #1 ($4.99) – Based on CN’s series about two brothers who travel across a strange forest in order to find their way home.

• Lumberjanes Vol. 1 ($14.99) – A critically acclaimed series for all ages written, drawn, colored, lettered and edited by a team of women.
• Jim Henson’s The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow HC ($24.99) – see our review of this adaptation of the Jim Henson TV special that never was.

 

For YA Readers

• The Woods Vol. 1 TP ($9.99) –  A young adult fantasy-horror adventure that takes place on a high school campus that gets teleported to an alien world. (See our review.)

• Lumberjanes Vol. 1 ($14.99)

 

For Someone New to Comics

 

• Will o’ the Wisp: An Aurora Grimeon Story HC ($24.95) – “Introducing Aurora Grimeon, a gothic heroine, pulled into a new eerie mystery filled with danger, Hoodoo, and murder.”

• Hacktivist HC ($24.99) – A limited series co-created by former Who’s the Boss star Alyssa Milano about a pair of brilliant socially conscious hackers. (See our review.)

For Those on a Budget

The following 2014 publications are all under $20:

• Cyanide & Happiness: Punching Zoo TP ($14.99) – A new compilation of one of the most successful and popular web comics.

• I Don’t Get It HC ($17.99): “Where do cartoons go when they’ve been bounced by the New Yorker? When they’re as funny as what’s floating in Wheeler’s brain, they’re boiled down to the best of the bounced and presented in one laugh-out-loud volume.”

• Adventure Time: Bitter Sweets Original Graphic Novel TP ($11.99)

• Day Men Vol. 1 TP ($9.99)

• Dead Letters Vol. 1 TP ($9.99)

• Hit: 1955 TP ($14.99)

• The Midas Flesh Vol. 1 TP ($14.99)

• Mouse Guard: Baldwin the Brave and Other Stories HC ($14.99)

• Regular Show: Hydration Original Graphic Novel TP ($12.99)

• Sons of Anarchy Vol. 1 TP ($19.99)

• The Woods Vol. 1 TP ($9.99)

For Those Who Want to Splurge

 

• Jim Henson Novel Slipcase Box Set ($49.99)

• Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand Box Set ($49.99)

• Jim Henson’s The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow HC ($24.99)

• Adventure Time: Marceline and the Scream Queens Mathematical Edition HC ($39.99)

• Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake Mathematical Edition HC ($39.99)

• The Collector HC ($29.99)