BOOM! Box Brings Together Lumberjanes and Gotham Academy
If you’re into reading comics about girls who strong, witty and interesting, then you’re probably already reading Gotham Academy or Lumberjanes and starting this June, BOOM! Box, an imprint of BOOM! Studios, is bring these girls together to solve a mystery. Something sinister is happening at a mysterious building deep in the woods, drawing the Lumberjanes and the Gotham Academy kids separately to investigate. The two groups band together to find out what exactly is going on. The limited series will bring the worlds of DC and BOOM! together and is a natural fit for the BOOM! Box imprint which is geared towards the growing readership of girls and women in comics.
BOOM! Box will also launch and independent series, Goldie Vance in April. Goldie Vance follows the story of Marigold “Goldie” Vance, a young, girl detective with the wit of Veronica Mars and the insatiable curiosity of Eloise. Goldie lives at a Florida resort and when Walter, the hotel’s in-house sleuth, can’t solve a case, he takes on Goldie as an apprentice.
Both series have a very clear target audience and it’s apparent that BOOM! Box has tapped into a group of comic readers that is looking for clever and empowered girls that they can look up to.
