Which comic in 2016 had the most rolicking adventure? Which character did kids love the most? Kids voted in these and other categories, including their favorite characters and graphic novels! At the third annual Kids’ Comics Revolution Awards, we revealed those winners! Hosted by Ben Hatke, Zack Giallongo, and Jerzy Drozd, with a bevy of special guests!

The author of the Lunch Lady series, Platypus Police Squad, and the latest Star Wars: Jedi Academy, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, demonstrates the process of making stories that people will care about, takes questions from the audience, and does some live drawing during the 2017 Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival.

Your favorite Steven Universe/My Little Pony themed band, The Shake Ups, rocked the Library during the 2017 Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival!

The third annual Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids' Comics was announced at A2CAF 2017. Named for the highly respected comic book and animation writer and co-founder of Milestone Media, the award honors Dwayne McDuffie's values and his legacy as a champion for meaningful top-quality and broadly inclusive comics for young people.

Watch Ben Hatke, Raina Telgemeier, and even more of your favorite cartoonists battle it out in a series of themed drawing rounds with random elements thrown in by you! Will you help them draw toward victory, or make them squirm? Watch guest cartoonists fight for the title under the watchful eye of your host, Zack Giallongo! Your choices will help determine this year’s Iron Cartoonist!

Our Big Picks this week were:

• Skybourne #1
• FLASHed: Sudden Stories in Comics and Prose
• Mighty Jack

You can learn more about Zac Gorman and his work on his website: www.magicalgametime.com

And you can also follow him on Twitter: @zacgormania

Where is Nick?!

Our Big Picks this week were:

• Lucy and Andy Neanderthal 
• The Longest Day of the Future
• My Hero Academia Vol 1

An innovative new segment is introduced, we find out who our podcast's super-villain is, and PART TWO of our epic history of Image Comics.

Our big picks this week were:

• Hellblazer Rebirth #1
• Batman Detective Comics #939
• Omega Men by Tom King

Our big picks this week were:

• All New All Different Avengers Annual #1
• All Star Batman #1
• Black Monday Murders #1

The music featured in this weeks podcast was the West Wing Theme Song by W. G. Snuffy Walden.

Dust those cobwebs of your podcast device. Is that your phone? You can go find it now: Super Skull is back in action. 

Our Big Picks this week were:

• Aquaman #4
• Kill or Be Killed #1
• Animosity #1