BANZAI GIRLS: The New Series

Of course, the same year I’m doing AVALON HIGH is when I decided to bring back BANZAI GIRL in a new series, this time from Arcana Studio, and we decided the sequel would add an S — making it BANZAI GIRLS.

The story picks up about eight months after the end of the BANZAI GIRL ANNUAL that I did for Sirius awhile back, and it chronicles “my” life since then as a pop singer/celebrity returning home.  (Hmm, sounds a bit familiar.)  It also puts me into the fray of more Pinoy legends — the Duwende, the Kapre`, and more.  I ran out of space to include the Tikbalang, though. 

So I’m doing more work than I ever have in my life, but the readers seem to be happy, judging by all the letters and Emails that I’ve been receiving.

If you’re keeping track of such things, Arcana Studio has released BANZAI GIRLS #1 (with an art cover, a photo cover, and a Retailer variant so rare I haven’t even seen it), as well as BANZAI GIRLS #2 (with just and art cover.) They’ve scheduled BANZAI GIRLS #3 to come out right before Christmas, with #4 due in February — possibly sooner.

And we’re discussing a BANZAI GIRLS ANNUAL for the next year, as well.  I’ll let you know more on that soon.

Arcana has also released, in a strategy I thought was brilliant, a brand-new BANZAI GIRL trade, digest-sized, collecting the original five issues PLUS a ton of never-before-collected material, in graytones and in manga format.  Look for it in bookstores and on comics shops shelves in the manga section.

If for some reason you can’t find it on the shelves and the store owner won’t order it for you, you can order it from my JINKY CORONADO’S MEGAMALL online store, the same place you can order all other things BANZAI, including the new comic book series. CLICK HERE to check ‘em out.