Review Copy News Alert: The Secret Saturdays: The Kur Stone Part 1

I just opened a package from Del Rey Manga, and inside was a review copy of The Secret Saturdays 1: The Kur Stone. This is the latest release in Del Rey Manga's line of film comics based on Cartoon Network animated series.

In a "film comic" the writer or editors use still images from live action or animated film or video to create the comic book art instead of standard drawn panels of art. They generally take most, if not all, the dialogue from the film or video and put it into word balloons so that the film comic book will essentially tell the same story as the original film or video. So a film comic looks like a comic book except the art is not drawn by artist, but is instead still images from film or video.

Del Rey Manga's license with Cartoon Network Enterprises to produce film comics has also seen the release of Ben 10 Alien Force: Ben 10 Returns and Bakugan Battle Brawlers books.