Media Release -- Black Mask is proud to announce that the comic market continues to gobble more books than we even hoped for, with JADE STREET PROTECTION SERVICES #1 and 4 KIDS WALK INTO A BANK #1 Second Printing *both* selling out.

JADE STREET PROTECTION SERVICES, the all-ages book about five lovable delinquents who discover a secret conspiracy at their high school for magical girls, will return in Second Printing.

4 KIDS WALK INTO A BANK, the very dark and kinda funny story of four children who decide to pursue a life of crime, will return in Third Printing.

JADE STREET PROTECTION SERVICES #1 - 2nd Print
Written by: Katy Rex
Art by: Fabian Lelay
Colored by: Mara Jayne Carpenter
Lettered by: Taylor Esposito
Diamond Code: MAY168937

4 KIDS WALK INTO A BANK #1 - 3rd Print
Written by: Matthew Rosenberg
Art by: Tyler Boss
Lettered by: Thomas Mauer
Diamond Code: MAY168936

CHATTER ABOUT JADE STREET

"Modern, relatable, touching, and gleefully rebellious."
- VICE

"A cute, chaotic debut that promises plenty of hijinks and heart."
- COMIC BOOK RESOURCES (Marykate Jasper)

"Truly fun for all audiences. I could easily see this as a show I'd rush home to watch after school, even late into my college days."
- COMICOSITY (Nikki Sherman)

"Rex and Lelay usher in a new magical girl era."
- MULTIVERSITY (Jess Camacho)
"A mash-up between The Breakfast Club and Sailor Moon, [Jade Street Protection Services] is the story of the delinquent students at an elite private school for magical girls."
- COMICS ALLIANCE (Laura Sneddon)

"There's been a handful of magical girl-type books to come out in the past year... but JSPS succeeds where a lot of these comics fail by giving a lot of time with the main cast and really fleshing them out."
- NEWSARAMA (Lan Pitts)

WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING ABOUT 4 KIDS?

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

"Imagine Tarantino does Goonies. And excellent."
- KIERON GILLEN (The Wicked + The Divine, Darth Vader)

"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. It kicks ass so thoroughly that I want issue 2, and I want it now. I can't think of a higher compliment I can pay to any serialized story."
- GREG RUCKA (Lazarus, Black Magick)

"4 Kids Walk Into A Bank? More like Charles walks into a book he really likes. Maybe it's both! It's definitely both."
- CHARLES SOULE (Daredevil, Death of Wolverine)

"You absolutely do NOT want to miss 4 KIDS WALK INTO A BANK this April. Rosenberg & Boss are BRILLIANT. It's easily the best comic I've read so far this year."
- JAMES TYNION IV (Batman & Robin Eternal, The Woods)
"A great little dark comedy about the actual violence and menace that we sometimes forget is essential to the experience of middle school. It's like Wes Anderson had a nightmare after getting peer-pressured into eating a cheesesteak."
- ALEX RUBENS (Writer KEY & PEELE, COMMUNITY, KEANU)

"4 KIDS WALK INTO A BANK is like Charles Shulz meets Dog Day Afternoon. Great comics."
- STEVE ORLANDO (Midnighter, Virgil)

"No competition, best comic of the year already."
- RYAN FERRIER (D4VE, Kennel Block Blues)

"Your favorite book of 2016 is almost here. 4 KIDS WALK INTO A BANK is the truth."
- ALEX PAKNADEL (Arcadia, Turncoat)