Comic Bento is a monthly comic book subscription service that delivers graphic novels and comics each month. This is a great value because every month, you’ll receive at least $50 in books.
Special care is given to each box. To keep the books from jostling about, Comic Bento has all books packed together in plastic with cardboard to keep everything straight.
Six books from multiple publishers. Comic Bento did well including some with their offering this month.
Comic Bento includes a 2-sided card that gives you some insight into the books they sent. They also give some backstory as to why they chose the books within the subscription box.
Comic Bento is great at providing variety while sticking to their theme.
The following three books all go together.
Runaways Volume 4-6 – Marvel Comics – Runaways is a really fun concept for Marvel comics; so much so that Hulu now has a Marvel Runaways series. The comics were written by Brian K. Vaughan who has written some of my all time favorites(Y: The Last Man, Saga).
Runaways: Volume 4: True Believers – Marvel Comics – $9.99 cover price.
It’s an all-new beginning for the book that Wizard calls “the best original concept from Marvel in thirty years!” When a group of teenagers discovers that their parents are actually super-villains, they run away from home…but that’s only step one! Now that the evil Pride is gone, nearly every bad guy in the Marvel Universe is trying to fill the power vacuum in Los Angeles, and the Runaways are the only heroes who can stop them! Plus: What does a mysterious new team of
young heroes want with the Runaways, and which fan-favorite Marvel characters are part of this group? Collects Runaways (2005) #1-6.
Runaways: Volume 5: Escape to New York – Marvel Comics – $9.99 cover price.
The team’s lineup changes forever, in the perfect jumping-on point for this fan-favorite series!
When a dangerous alien invades Los Angeles, the Runaways’ own Karolina Dean may be the only hero in the Marvel Universe who can stop him…but at what cost? Plus: he Runaways embark on a
coast-to-coast adventure, guest-starring Cloak and Dagger and the New Avengers! When Cloak is accused by his fellow heroes of a crime he didn’t commit, the vigilante is forced to turn to the teenage Runaways for help. This story will take our teens to a place they’ve never been: New York City!
Runaways: Volume 6: Parental Guidance – Marvel Comics – $9.99.
When the youngest member of the Runaways is separated from her teammates, Molly Hayes must survive a night alone on the mean streets of Los Angeles! The 11-year-old mutant girl soon hooks up with a new group of runaways, but is their mysterious leader a hero or a villain? Collects Runaways #13-18.
Mindfield – Volume 1 – Aspen Comics – $19.99 cover price. This complete first volume has a cover exclusive to Comic Bento. The series is written by J.T. Krul with art by Alex Konat.
The CIA has created an elite team of telepathic agents dedicated to fighting domestic terrorism. But as Connor and the rest of his crew take to the streets, can they handle the dark thoughts buried inside the minds of ‘we the people?’ As Connor struggles to cope with his frightening new abilities, he soon discovers the hard way that too much information can be a very bad thing!
A&A: The Adventures of Archer & Armstrong – Valiant Comics – $9.99 cover price. The adventures keep coming for Archer and Armstrong, a group that has been with Valiant Comics for quite some time.
GET SMASHED…OR BE SMASHED! Meet Armstrong: Since the ancient city of Ur, this immortal adventurer has spent the last 7,000 years drinking and carousing his way through history alongside some of the greatest merrymakers the world has ever known. Meet Archer: A sheltered teenage martial arts master and expert marksman that was raised for a single purpose – to kill the devil incarnate. Little did he know that this undying evil was actually Armstrong (he’s actually a pretty good guy…once you get to know him) and, since hitting the road together, the two have become great friends and even better partners. Now: Archer is about to set off on his most dangerous mission yet – a quest into the mystic reaches of Armstrong’s bottomless satchel to liberate his friend and comrade from the clutches of the mad god Bacchus! (Okay, so, Armstrong went into the satchel himself to get a bottle of whiskey that he kinda misplaced and got stuck. It’s like the Amazon warehouse of arcane treasures in there…and he doesn’t exactly have a maid service.) Imprisoned in Armstrong’s satchel for centuries, Bacchus now commands a legion of monsters, goblins and golems bent on escaping back into the world of man and enacting revenge on their captor… Can Archer single-handedly combat the godly embodiment of intoxication himself – and rescue his best buddy – without becoming lost amongst Armstrong’s endless repository of bizarre artifacts and historical oddities in the process? From red-hot rising star Rafer Roberts (Plastic Farm) and superstar artist David Lafuente (Ultimate Spider-Man), Valiant’s next blockbuster series starts here!
Grimm Fairy Tales: The Dream Eater Saga – Volume 1 – Zenescope – $15.99. Zenescope does a lot of re-imagining of the Grimm Fairy Tales and this is another volume within this fantastical world.
The Dream Eater has been released and stalks the earth searching for its first victim while the heroes and villains of the Grimm Fairy Tales universe prepare themselves for what could very well be the end of them all!
Comic Bento is such an awesome value! All four of these books were packaged well together and arrived in spectacular condition. As stated earlier, there is a theme but there’s also a ton of variety, and the theming of this box is pretty unique amongst comic subscriptions. The curator’s notes really bring the theme together, and that made this box even more awesome!
What did you think of this month’s Comic Bento theme?
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