LOONEY TUNES BREAKFAST AT EMAGINE THEATRES

Each month, Emagine hosts a Breakfast and a Movie showing, at select theaters, of one of the newest family-film releases. The breakfast and a movie screening package will include a full breakfast buffet, a 44oz. popcorn, and a 21oz fountain drink as well as a ticket to the showing for $24 for children and $30 for adults.  The special presentation for March will be the new Looney Tunes movie THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP a PG-rated family-friendly spoof of 1950s era sci-fi flicks. In Michigan, the event will take place at Emagine's Canton and Royal Oak locations.

Porky Pig and Daffy Duck become Earth's only hope when their antics at the local bubble-gum factory uncover a secret alien mind-control plot. Faced with cosmic odds, they must save their town and the world while not driving each other totally looney.

This Breakfast and a Movie event takes place on Sunday, March 16, 2025. Breakfast starts at 10am. The movie screening begins at 11am. For more information, visit emagine-entertainment.com

LEGO introduces Classic Disney Minifigure Series

My kids love the blind bags that you can purchase at the store that contain a random LEGO minifigure and are always excited when I let them get one.  In fact they enjoy playing with these minifigures and the ones that came within the LEGO playsets they've gotten almost as much as they like building things with LEGO bricks.  Based upon how much my own children like minifigures, I'm pretty sure LEGO fans of all ages will appreciate that the toy company is launching a collection of Classic Disney character minifigures that can be purchased individually without having to buy a playset to get them beginning May 1, 2016.  I know my kids have often wanted to purchase individual DC Comics, Marvel and Star Wars LEGO minifigures but we couldn't get them without purchasing a specific playset so it is interesting that these characters are being made available for individual purchase and this is an opportunity you may not want to miss out on.

The available characters LEGO fans can pick up will include Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and Daisy Duck.

Plus characters from classic 1950s Disney animated movies such as characters Alice and the Cheshire Cat from Wonderland, Peter Pan and Captain Hook from Neverland and villain Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty.

Some minifigures will also be available from more recent Disney animated movie releases such as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and  Lilo & Stitch.

Also never-before-seen in the LEGO world, Mr. Incredible and Syndrome from The Incredibles will be released as part of the Classic Disney minifigure collection.

Beginning May 1st these LEGO minifigures will be available at LEGO Stores and other toy retailers nationwide and online via shop.LEGO.com for $3.99 each.

Include Your Local Comic Book Shop As Part Of Your Halloween Trick-or-Treat Route

When out and about this Halloween, don't forget to include stopping by your local comic book store as part of your trick-or-treating.  Participating comic book stores will be handing out FREE comic books on Saturday, October 31st to celebrate Halloween.  Visit HalloweenComicsFest.com to find a participating shop near you.

This year's promotion will be providing trick-or-treaters with a selection of 13 full sized Halloween themed comic books and 8 mini comics to choose from.  What you can take varies from store-to-store with some allowing 1 comic book per person, others letting people take as many as they like and yet others setting a quota somewhere in between.  So you may want to contact comic stores in advance to confirm their participation and make sure you understand what the rules are for this Halloween giveaway.

The full-sized comic books being given out include ACTIONVERSE, ADVENTURES OF PSYCHO BONKERS, THE BATMAN ADVENTURES, DONALD DUCK'S HALLOWEEN SCREAM, CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA, and STAN LEE's CHAKRA THE INVINCIBLE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL, among others.

The mini-comics being given out include BOOM STUDIOS HALLOWEEN HAUNT 2015, BITTEN, THE GARLICKS, SPOOK A RAMA, and WORLD OF ARCHIE, among others.

There is a nice selection of comics here that has something for everyone from early readers to teens to parents so trick or treaters young and old are welcome to participate in this year's Halloween Comics Fest.  Which of these selections do you think your kids, or you, would most want to add to their goody bucket this Halloween?  For our family its nice to see Disney characters back in the pages of comic books again after a few years absence so we'll go with Donald Duck's Halloween Scream.
If you want to check out these comics in advance to see if they may be age appropriate for a child or of interest to you  the links above all provide a preview of the first few pages of each comic book.  For more information, you can also go to HalloweenComicFest.com.

Have fun, be safe, don't let the vampires or werewolves bite, and don't forget to pick up some FREE comic books this Halloween!

JULY FIRST MARKS THE RETURN OF MICKEY MOUSE TO THE PAGES OF COMIC BOOKS

After being on hiatus since 2011, Mickey Mouse is returning to the pages of comic books on July 1, 2015 when IDW Publishing begins a monthly serial titled WALT DISNEY'S MICKEY MOUSE that will feature the beloved character in brand new adventures.  Mickey Mouse first appeared in his own comic book story in 1941 and over the years his stories have continued through a variety of publishers which all maintained continuity with issue numbering until the series culminated with Boom! Studios' Mickey Mouse #309.  In 2011 after acquiring Marvel, Disney opted not to renew its licensing agreement with Boom! Studios as it was determining how it was going to merge its new acquisition into its corporate family.  So there has been a void in comic books featuring Disney's Mickey Mouse and friends characters until this year when IDW Publishing picked up the license to bring them back to life in print.

The first issue of IDW's MICKEY MOUSE will hit stores on July 1, 2015 and will have duel numbering on its cover being billed as #1 (#310) highlighting the beginning of the series with the new publisher but maintaining the legacy of the overall continuation of stories featuring the character since the 1940s.  This new issue will feature Mickey Mouse in a jungle trek as he travels "The Lost Explorers' Trail" and has a run in with the daredevil Eurasia Toft during the adventure.  The comic book will be 48 pages, retail for $3.99 and be available in a primary jungle themed cover plus a variant one that celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Disney Land amusement park.

Mickey Mouse will be joining Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, and Walt Disney's Comics & Stories as  Disney themed comic book series.  For more information, visit www.idwpublishing.com/disney-comics

Mickey Mouse & Friends Returning to Pages of Comic Books in 2015

There has been a lapse in comic books featuring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and their friends since BOOM STUDIOS released its last Walt Disney character based issue in 2011.  Good news for Disney fans, and parents who want to let younger children enjoy comic books that aren't violent or have a graphic nature to them, the adventures of Mickey and his friends will be returning to the printed page in 2015! IDW PUBLISHING has announced that beginning in April new monthly Walt Disney character based series will begin starting with UNCLE SCROOGE #1 which will feature tales of the iconic tycoon adventurer and uncle to the international celebrity known as Donald Duck (who will also be getting his own monthly series).

Other monthly comic book serials from IDW will include DONALD DUCK launching in May, followed by MICKEY MOUSE #1 in June, and WALT DISNEY'S COMICS & STORIES hits store shelves in July.  UNCLE SCROOGE #1, DONALD DUCK #1, MICKEY MOUSE NUMBER #1, and WALT DISNEY'S COMICS & STORIES #721 (this series will maintain the continuity of past publishers over the decades) will all be special premiere issues with 48 pages of content for $3.99.  Subsequent issues will be 40 pages for the same cover price as the #1 editions and shall feature a combination of reprints of classic comic book stories from previous publishers and brand new tales from the creative team at IDW.  Throughout 2015 there will also be a special variant cover published for each comic book based upon a monthly theme promoting a different section of the Disney theme parks including Epcot, FantasyLand, The Haunted Mansion, and TomorrowLand, among others.

It is interesting that Disney decided to license these comic books to a third-party publisher versus what was popularly assumed would happen and bring the titles in-house to Marvel.  IDW though has an excellent track record for producing quality publications and should do a fine job with these new comic books(with the one exception of TRANSFORMERS VS GI JOE which is one of the worst comic books I've ever read with both horrible art and writing) .  I am currently reading their STAR TREK/PLANET OF THE APES cross-over mini-series and FALL OF GI JOE monthly series, which is scripted by acclaimed military and science fiction author Karen Traviss, and have found both titles to be impressive.  So I'm looking forwarding to picking up some of these new Disney comic books for my six year old twins so they can practice their reading skills while enjoying adventures about these beloved Disney characters.  So which classic Walt Disney character is your favorite?  I'm a Goofy guy myself, while it is Mickey Mouse for my son, Minnie for my daughter, and my wife has an affection for Pluto.