Disney hass announced that their new imprint, Kingdom Comics, will revamp existing Disney products in the hopes of bringing them to new readers. The happy folks at RevolutionSF helpfully compiled a list of suggestions, and damn if I wouldn’t read every one of these…
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Neil Gaiman, writer / Bernie Wrightson, artistIt is 1940, and war has come to the sleepy village of Pepperinge Eye!
Ms. Eglentine Price, an apprentice witch still learning the mystic forces, assisted by Prof. Emelius Browne, a flim-flam man and three orphan East-End gutter snipes, must seek out and discover the secret to Substitutiary Locomotion to combat Hitler’s Third Reich.
From the smoggy streets of London, to the mythical island nation of Namboombu within the Realm of Dream, they travel to find the fabled Star of Astaroth, the only force able to combat Heinrich Himmler and his supernatural army of Ubermenschen, marching on England behind the Spear of Destiny.
With the words Trecuna mecoides antrecorum satis dei, war will begin, greater even than the war engulfing Europe; a war which threatens to unravel the very fabric of our world.
Includes “The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes” by Grant Morrison and Ted McKeever, “Freaky Friday” by Terry Moore, the hilariously newly violent “The Apple Dumpling Gang” by Joe Lansdale and Tim Truman, and more.