The Last Comics on Earth: A Song of Swords and Stuffies: From the Creators of The Last Kids on Earth

by Max Brallier, Joshua Pruett, Jay Cooper (Illustrator), Douglas Holgate (Illustrator)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Nothing solves a problem like a hoard of stuffies, but with a rather unique threat facing the world, it's all hands on deck to save the day.

The third installment of the New York Times bestelling graphic novel series based on the worldwide phenomenon The Last Kids on Earth!

After one-upping themselves with a triumphant follow-up to their bestselling comic book, the Last Kids on Earth are met with unexpected competition: Skaelka has written her own comic and it’s selling like hotcakes! Determined to reclaim their #1 spot, our hero's get to work to create the ultimate threequel . . .

When a vicious monster attacks Apocalyptia, a group of adorably fluffy and delightfully stinkin’ cute mascot-shaped hero's arrive on the scene to help: the Laser Blade Hero Squad! Forming an alliance with our hero's, they agree to look after Apocalyptia while the Savage Aloner is called home on a mission to save his people from a mysterious threat. The entire land, and its citizens, have been . . . cutified! Now it’s up to Savage and our hero's to get to the bottom of things, before Barbarious Fantastica, and the rest of Apocalyptia, becomes permanently adorable!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593526811
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	04/29/2025
Series:	Last Comics on Earth , #3
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	GN350L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Max Brallier is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. His books and series include The Last Kids on Earth, Eerie Elementary, Mister Shivers, Galactic Hot Dogs, and Can YOU Survive the Zombie Apocalypse? He is a writer and producer for Netflix's Emmy Award-winning adaptation of The Last Kids on Earth. Visit him at MaxBrallier.com.

Editorial Reviews

2025-02-01
A quartet of young comics creators send their costumed alter egos back to the land of Apocalyptia to face a new and fuzzy threat: Get set for the AWWpocalypse!

Pressured by the success of a competing comic (presented in a monochrome frame story), the Last Kids go for “weirder” and really deliver in this latest series entry. A switch to full-color art kicks off an episode that’s highlighted by exciting developments involving erupting sharkcanoes, donuts, googly eyes, and a team-up with the plushy yet awesomely named Laser Blade Hero Squad. Then there’s the fiendish scheme to subject all the monstrous residents of Apocalyptia to horribly transformative cutie blasts. As in the previous volumes, the action pauses frequently to tout (made-up) merch (with the Savage Beard Marker, you can “draw your very own beard on your very own face! Or somebody else’s very own face!”), and a collection of readers’ letters brings up the end. Through betrayals, sharp banter, and epic battles with adorably button-eyed evildoers, everything goes very wrong. Still, despite having all their superpowers cute-ified, the fearsome foursome can be depended on to leave their foes “glazed and dazed” in the end. Why? Because even though light-skinned barbarian Savage Aloner is the featured superhero this time around, with plenty of personal quests and tests to face, it’s teamwork with his companions and other diversely hued allies that leads to ultimate victory.

A cuddlefest of heroic proportions.(Graphic fiction. 8-13)

Kirkus Reviews