When Z2 Comics Offers The Blues Brothers: The Escape Of Joliet Jake, and Unreleased Recordings!

Fans of the Blues Brothers will want to make sure they’ll catch the Katy this time, because there’ll be music to accompany this graphic novel release.

The Blues Brothers: The Escape of Joliet JakeA day that changed comedy forever. With the release of The Blues Brothers, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd unleashed a film that would thrill and entertain generations with their Mission From God. Now, exactly 45 years later, Z2 Comics has partnered with the Aykroyd and Belushi families and estate to deliver the sequel to that film in the original graphic novel,  The Blues Brothers: The Escape Of Joliet Jake.

Uncovered by the late Judy Belushi Pisano, this series of unreleased recordings is a rare musical glimpse at Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues at the height of their blues powers. Belushi and Aykroyd blast through a 13-song set with some of the greatest musicians who ever lived. The gang’s all here, as Blues Brothers legends Matt “Guitar” Murphy, Steve “The Colonel” Cropper, Donald “Duck” Dunn, Paul “The Shiv” Shaffer, Lou “Blue Lou” Marini, Tom “Bones” Malone, Alan “Mr. Fabulous” Rubin, Steve “GETDWA” Jordan, and Tom “Triple Scale” Scott show why this band is timeless.

The album features unheard versions of blues classics including “Hey Bartender,” “Rubber Biscuit,” and “Green Onions.” This album will be available exclusively as a Royal Blue-colored vinyl release, packaged with the graphic novel.

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TokyoPOP x Kinokuniya USA Ready to Lullaby of The Dawn Gallery Tour!

Catch a special summer exhibit of artwork from Lullaby of the Dawn, a hit manga series, at eight Kinokuniya USA store locations in 5 U.S. states this summer

Lullaby of the Dawn Book Cover
Series available to purchase on Amazon USA

Female readers might take interest in the Lullaby of the Dawn gallery tour that’s taking place beginning in July. This BL manga has sold up to 1.7 million copies worldwide, and with that kind of record number, this team up to celebrate is to be expected. From anime conventions to book store displays, the work displayed is set to show to the world why this subgenre matters. There are many reasons, and fans will argue these tales gets away from less misogynistic content and celebrate the bishōnen style.

From the Press Release

“We’re very proud to partner with Kinokuniya USA to present this special exhibit for manga fans,” says Owais Farooqui, Director of Marketing and Sales, TOKYOPOP. “Several dates also coincide with some of North America’s biggest summer anime conventions, and we invite fans to add it as a must-see highlight on their con schedules.”

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The Land of the Lacandón is Thankfully Not A Land of Confusion for the Locals Encountering Civilization For the First Time

The release of The Land of the Lacandon offers a great look at what it means to be a storyteller. Whether that’s with Bernard de Colmont’s search for the last Mayan tribe in the Yucatán or the aftermath, this read offers a stepping stone to further exploration

The Land of the Lacandon Book Cover
Available to purchase on Amazon USA

McGill-Queen’s University Press

Bernard de Colmont’s contributions to society are many. Although he’s better known as the founder of Club 55, a famous beach resort in Saint-Tropez, this worldly gentleman had other interests. Back in the early part of the 20th century, he explored the Yucatán Peninsula. What’s recounted in the graphic novel In The Land of the Lacandón is the search for the last survivors of the Mayan empire! Just how he survived is not as exciting as Indiana Jones but in what he makes fascinating is in how he paved the way for future explorers to learn about the culture hesitant in greeting him.

Without this amateur archaeologist’s film footage, this world may have disappeared. When he presented his findings at home, the people who attended his lectures responded with applause. Although the result afterwards had the attitude of traditional colonials wanting to take over, without this “discovery,” these people might disappear altogether. Thankfully, because of him and later on, historians Richard Ivan Jobs and Steven Van Wolputte put together an informative work that budding anthropologists can read to witness this world like it is new.

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Mad Cave Studio’s Fate: The Winx Saga, The Shadow War Makes Its Mark!

All the latest news and info regarding The Winx Saga is recounted here, which updates fans on both the graphic novel and animated front!

Fate- The Winx Saga, The Shadow War
Available to preorder on Amazon USA

Release Date
July 22, 2025

The live-action Fate: The Winx Saga breathes life to a franchise I miss watching. While the latest is a good Netflix series, it does not have the same appeal as the original. Iginio Straffi’s character designs made it unique, and despite changes in directions in later seasons, I enjoyed it. And until the rumoured animated reboot series gets broadcast (more on this later). I’ll take what’s there and eagerly give Fate: The Winx Saga, The Shadow War, volume two of the graphic novel series, a read!

Mad Cave Studios and Rainbow Group are pleased to announce this upcoming graphic novel, and they got more information about it.

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Who’s Ready For The Blues Brothers? The Escape of Joliet Jake Marks A New (and Old?) Chapter for the Franchise!

Although The Blues Brothers is mostly a cover band, just what they represent is much more than to bring that Chicago Blues sound to the masses. Their passion and need to connect with the genre’s essence must be honoured in this upcoming graphic novel, The Escape of Joliet Jake.

The Blues Brothers: The Escape of Joliet Jake
Available to preorder on Amazon USA

Release Date: Oct 2025

The beloved Blues Brothers whom two generations have grown up with are not gone. Instead, there are plans to bring this franchise back to the fore with “forays into television, film, live events, music and much more,” according to one press release. Everything begins with the graphic novel release of The Blues Brothers: The Escape of Joliet Jake. While Dan Aykroyd will not be performing at every stop (he is getting on in age so he’s most likely not going to be as intense on stage), his presence will mean everything why his daughter is taking charge of continuing on!

All I can think of is the attempt with Blues Brothers 2000. This movie pays tribute to the first film and shows how the music changes style from one side of the country to the other. And it also reveals that to be a brother means you just have to embrace the music, and that’s all anyone needs to chase the blahs away.

To kick things off will be this graphic novel from Z2 Comics. It’s written by Stella Aykroyd, Luke Pisano and James Werner with artist Felipe Sobriero.

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The Dissident Club Is Where We Are The World

An expansive Pakistani coming-of-age story, The Dissident Club documents Taha Siddiqui’s experiences as a young man fighting for truth and justice against the harsh backdrop of Islamic fundamentalism and corruption.

The Dissident Club Graphic Novel
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Taha Siddiqui never felt he belonged in the world his Muslim parents grew up in. Although they tried to teach them their ways, he never understood what being devout means. When his father became much more difficult to live with, life became a lot more tough. And what’s recounted in the aptly titled graphic novel, The Dissident Club: Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in Exile, is a deep look at what goes on in Pakistan.

Some parents allowed their kids to grow up without certain teachings engrained upon them at an early age. This author had a fleeting moment where he could read comics featuring Batman, Superman and Spider-man. He not only idolized but also wanted to be like them. But after his father looked at these books, he took them away and banned them because they represented something he deemed against the will of Allah.

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