When Disney bought Marvel we wondered what would become of the BOOM! Kids! line, which published a lot of licensed comics from Disney. Then in January, BOOM! seemed to cancel a bunch of their Disney and Muppets licensed books. A month later Marvel and Disney announced that they would be publishing a Pixar comic magazine series.
What's next for BOOM! Kids!? Today we got an idea.
First there was this "press release":
Then thre was this "press release":
So it would appear that BOOM! Kids! is rebranding itself as Kaboom!, which I believe is the catch phrase of the cable network The Hub, but that's just an aside. The real question is: is that the final logo for Kaboom!? Because…
We've got no further information on the Peanuts announcements at this time. Is it old, classic material? Is it new material? We'll find out soon enough.
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I hope this does not mean that we’ll stop getting the peanuts hardcovers because the Seth covers on those are worth the money alone
I think the logo works perfectly for a kids product, but once you specify that it’s for a comic book line, I think it could use a redesign with that in mind.
So they cancel a wonderful Muppets comic that was one of the funniest reads to give me the Peanuts (nothing against snoopy and the gang but what kid is screaming of a peanuts comic?)?!?!?
I say Bah…..humbug!
Are kids really going to beg mom and dad for $4 for an issue of classic Peanuts comics? They’re availible in the newspapers for free.
@CammyKnoxville Kids are reading a lot of newspapers?
“Hey Ma can I get a nickle for the paper so I can read the funnies? I’ll be real good and do all my chores and I won’t play no more stick ball in the street”
@conor well at least the Sunday funnies I would imagine! Kids today with their viloent video games and harlot pop stars; it’s enough to shake your fist at!
*shakes fist*
I kid but seriously we all know what killed comics page in the newspaper……Cathy!
http://www.gocomics.com/cathy/2010/10/03/
That poor woman never could find the right diet.
The next line for the really small kids ( meaning those who like pictures but cannot read ) will be called KaKaBoom.
I seem to recall a clause in Charles Schulz contract that no one else could continue the comic strip upon his death. But a comic book on the other hand…
@finalmonkey Yeah. I heard that too. While I do love Peanuts, I don’t like the idea of someone else writing them if they do that. I am not saying that the comic wouldn’t be any good. It is just that Charles Schulz’s personality was such a big driving force of the comic. Peanuts relfected what he thought about life in a humorous way. I shall wait and see.
@conor Have you guys thought of doing a Peanuts video podcast? It would be interesting to see what you guys think of the comic strip.
I would buy comics with reprinted Peanuts on light weeks. That would be crazy cool to read them in comic book form. If its new stuff, I’m interested.
Looks a bit like the Nintendo logo, especially when done in red.
Apparently this is going to be new material, or at least that’s what an article on CBR said. Although how/why you would do new material on already classic stuff is beyond me.
I think it’s a good thing anyways. Now is a great time for today’s generation of kids to get into Peanuts. I remember getting into the series when I was a 4-5 years old at my Grandmother’s house. She had a crap load of collected material. That and an aunt of mine, a distant one, has original collected material from the 1970s! Definitely a conversation starter when they see that.
after you read a Kaboom! comic you can use it to clean the bathroom. Billy Mays must be proud.
i don’t see Boom!/Kaboom! as an appropriate name for the publisher of Peanuts–it’s a bit too “!!” for this material, no?
yeah, Ka-Bam! seems more appropriate. Kaboom! doesn’t work.
@conor FYI…in fact as I write this my daughter is reading the newspaper. She actually reads the paper everyday, and chiefly for the comics.
Additional FYI…Peanuts are published everyday in the Seattle Times under the header Classic Peanuts (none of them are new, they’re reprints of Charles Schluz’s work).
@TheNextChampion Wow, I’m surprised that these will be new Peanuts. Like others, I was under the impression this couldn’t be done. I wonder if there is a time limit involved with the original restriction.
I have fond memories of growing up witht he Peanuts gang. Of course, as an adult some of those kids are really mean, but as a kid it was all great fun. It will be interesting to see if the writers can capture that same magic that made Peanuts endearing for decades. It would be like someone else other than Gary Larson doing the Far Side or Bill Watterson not writing Calvin and Hobbes.