We don’t often promote other publishers’ releases, but when we do it’s usually to shine the spotlight on one of our creative friends—as it is in this case with writer Sholly Fisch, who’s probably best known as the scripter of such DC Comics as Scooby-Doo Team-Up, Batman: The Brave & the Bold, and, most recently, The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries (recently renewed for another “season”).
Sholly has a new comic series that just launched from Dynamite Entertainment: Madballs vs. Garbage Pail Kids, a crossover event in which “the heavyweights of gross have combined forces in a massive merchandising blitz that pits the Madballs against the Garbage Pail Kids—winner take all!” Basically, it’s a clash of two of the 1980s’ most popular gross-out kids’ properties, AmToys’ Madballs foam toys and Topps’ wacky sticker trading card series Garbage Pail Kids (a parody of the then-popular Cabbage Patch Dolls).
Madballs vs. Garbage Pail Kids #1 is available right now from physical and online comic retailers, so if you’re nostalgic for the eighties, or are a fan of Sholly’s work, then be sure to pick up a copy!
And don’t forget, you can check out Sholly’s contribution to StarWarp Concepts’ backlist of comics by purchasing The Saga of Pandora Zwieback Annual #1, a spinoff from the young-adult novel series. This 56-page, full-color comic special finds the teenaged Goth adventuress battling vampires and a jealous, man-stealing siren.
In addition to the lead story, “Song of the Siren,” a Pan adventure written by yours truly and illustrated by Eliseu Gouveia (The Saga of Pandora Zwieback #0) in which she confronts a boyfriend-stealing mythological siren, and my short story “Shopping Maul” (title page illustration by Charm School’s Elizabeth Watasin), in which Pan and her friends deal with Gothic & Lolita vampires at a shopping mall, it features “After Hours,” an offbeat tale by Sholly and comic-art legend Ernie Colon (Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld) about a demon who walks into a bar, looking to unwind after a long day of scarifying.
The Saga of Pandora Zwieback Annual #1 is available in print and digital formats. Visit its product page for ordering information, as well as sample pages.
