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4 Kids Walk Into A Bank Gets Some Exclusive Variant Covers For Its TPB

Published Wed, 08 Nov 2017 11:16:46 -0600

4 Kids Walk Into a Bank, a darkly comedic story of four burgeoning child criminals and their elaborate plans, has its trade paperback collection out today.

When a group of bumbling criminals show up in her father's life looking to pull one last job, young Paige has two choices – let her father get caught up in their criminal hijinks or enlist her three best friends to do the job first. Paige picks the bad one.180ish pages of full color comic-booking about friendship, family, growing up, and grand larceny from rising star writer Matthew Rosenberg (WE CAN NEVER GO HOME, SECRET WARRIORS, PUNISHER) and equally rising star artist Tyler Boss (LAZARUS, CALEXIT, Vice Magazine).

And they also have exclusive covers, just for some lucky (and minted) retailers:

#1. Exclusive to Ssalefish Comics, Arkham Comix, and Ultimate Comics.

#2. Exclusive to Forbidden Planet and Big Bang Comics.

#3. Exclusive to stores that carry the Fried Pie Variants.

#4. Exclusive to Newbury Comics locations.

#5. Exclusive to Third Eye Comics.

#6. LCSD Hardcover. Exclusively sold on Local Comic Shop Day at participating stores.

Oh go on, have some quotes.

"A great crime comic that also uses the medium in dynamic and experimental ways to tell its story. I throughly enjoyed every page." – ED BRUBAKER (Criminal, Kill or Be Killed)"Imagine Tarantino does Goonies. And excellent."
– KIERON GILLEN (The Wicked + The Devine, Darth Vader)

"Exploding with ambition and love of the medium!"
– BRIAN K. VAUGHAN (Saga, Y: The Last Man)

"There are any number of things I could say about 4 Kids, about Matthew Rosenberg's sharp, smart writing or Tyler Boss' elegant and evocative art, and it'd be praise, all of it, but the highest praise I can give is this — it kicks ass." – GREG RUCKA (Lazarus, Black Magick)

"Only a tremendous creative team working in perfect sync could create something as powerfully real as 4 Kids Walk Into A Bank. It's at once smart, funny, dark, surprising, and authentic. A love letter to comics and everything they can do and be." – KELLY THOMPSON (Hawkeye, Captain Phasma)"You absolutely do NOT want to miss 4 KIDS WALK INTO A BANK. Rosenberg & Boss are BRILLIANT. It's easily the best comic I've read so far this year."- JAMES TYNION IV (Detective Comics, The Woods)

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