Disney Pixar CARS 2: Comics & Magazines
There are a couple new CARS & CARS 2 comics and magazines – as usual, there are a bunch of things going at once so it’s all confusing.
It looks like the CARS Magazine is finally coming to US. There is a Preview (?) edition available at BJ Warehouse (thanks for the heads up & scan, “Trev.”)
This is the magazine format that was previously available in countries such as Turkey and Italy (among other European countries). Obviously they will update the content for CARS 2 but probably re-run some older content such as puzzles and such. You can subscribe to it directly HERE. $29.92 for 8 issues – not a bad deal for a 96-page mag of games, puzzles, posters and hopefully like the EU versions – lots of stickers. If you subscribe, you also get two digital PDF’s 4-page mini comics from older issues of the magazines.
At the comic book stores, they listed this as issue #1 of a Disney Pixar CARS 2 “magazine” …
But it turned out to be the 4-part Boom Studios CARS “Race Rally” mini-series reprinted as one larger format comic “magazine” and now released by “Disney Comics.”
It’s a nice format, a nice story & art for kids but it is a re-print.
There is another “issue” coming out next month – scheduled June 22, 2011. From the description, it looks like a re-print of the first Boom Studios CARS series on the backstory of how Lightning found Mack, got his Rust-eze sponsorship and landed in Radiator Springs. Nicely done & illustrated but a re-print in a larger format.
You can pre-order from TFAW.com.
After this June compilation reprint, there does not seem to be anymore reprints scheduled so these might just be more of a promotional tool around the opening of the film.
There is-will be a comic novelization of the film also … (that is actually in a comic book format).
It will also ship on June 22, 2011. It’s 1 of 2.
Click HERE to pre-order from TFAW.
To order it from your comic book store: APR110560 – CARS 2 #1 (OF 2).
If you need a comic book store locator.
Other than the comic book novelization of CARS 2 in two parts, there does not seem to be any more CARS comics scheduled afterwards but then Disney wrapped up buying Marvel not too long ago so there was probably not a lot of lead time to get everything in place so probably in a few more months or at the end of the year, a monthly comic might start up but meanwhile, there is the magazine.
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3 June 2011
12 Comments
Thank you for clearing that up. I was confused between the Marvel magazine and the Disney Comics reprints of the BOOM! comics. I take it the upcoming movie comic two-parter is going to be a longer version of the 56-page movie comic in the $10 magazine?
(MET: The comics are listed at 40 pages each so presumably so but until it comes out …).
Got the first magazine at my local supermarket!! My son is loving it..!
Got the Cars 2 magazine at Barnes and Noble 2 weeks ago. Its awesome!
I saw the colector’s edition Cars 2 magazine last week, but I bought the storybook collection instead.
Same here. I passed on the magazine at $10…
really cool.
The Cars 2 magazine is really great! I picked it up from the local grocery store/pharmacy chain, Jewel/Osco, last night. The comic is done in the Boom Comics style for sure. There was also a really cool sticker book with lots of the new characters in reusable sticker format.
I already post something about these magazines a week ago but I guess no one have seen it…
http://www.takefiveaday.com/2011/05/26/disney-pixar-cars-2-books-of-cars-2-reviewed/#comment-197659
Nothing really new from above except the following “I read the story and I was disappoint about the usage of the word “kill” several times. I was expecting Pixar will be smarter and use more appropriate words for a kid movie such as “send him to the scrapyard” or “put him in the compactor”. Despite that I will subscribe to both for sure… 🙂
My 5 year old has really enjoyed the Boom Comics series, but the writers do include some words we don’t want him making a habit of saying, like “stupid” and “idiot.” It just takes some off-the-cuff re-writing when reading aloud with them at an early age. It does create the opportunity for a good teaching moment – we can read about Chick Hicks’ hurtful choice of words but we don’t need to use those words at nursery school, etc…
I saw the Special Collector’s Edition Disney Pixar Cars 2 Magazine $9.99 at Target yesterday. jestrjef, you might try to find it there 🙂
Hmmm … will do. Thanks!
Dag gum!! I did not see THOSE the FIRST time I was at BJ’s …. I guess I will be going back …. kids …. to the car!!! 😀