BOOM! Studios and R.L. Stine team up for FCBD special

You can pick up ‘Just Beyond: Monstrosity 2021’ from R.L. Stine, Irene Flores, Joana LaFuente, and Mike Fiorentino on August 14.

David Brooke

March 17, 2021

Press Release

BOOM! Studios has announced a new Free Comic Book Day special Just Beyond: Monstrosity 2021 FCBD Special from R.L. Stine, Irene Flores, Joana LaFuente, and Mike Fiorentino. Available on Free Comic Book Day on August 14, the book has a cover by Julian Totino Tedesco which you can view below.

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For more on this news, read the official BOOM! press release below.

LOS ANGELES, CA (March 17, 2021) – BOOM! Studios today proudly announced the JUST BEYOND: MONSTROSITY 2021 FCBD SPECIAL, a free special issue from R.L. Stine, the award-winning, bestselling author of Goosebumps and Fear Street, artist Irene Flores (Heavy Vinyl), colorist Joana LaFuente, and letterer Mike Fiorentino, set in the world of the highly acclaimed middle grade horror series Just Beyond, soon to be a television show on Disney+.

JUST BEYOND: MONSTROSITY 2021 FCBD SPECIAL featuring a cover by Julian Totino Tedesco (Life of Captain Marvel), arrives in comic shops worldwide on Free Comic Book Day, August 14, 2021.

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JUST BEYOND: MONSTROSITY 2021 FCBD SPECIAL will be published through the company’s award-winning KaBOOM! imprint, where R.L. Stine has originated his first new concepts in the comic book medium as part of his multi-book agreement with the publisher. With the release of his debut novel Blind Date in 1981, R.L. Stine established himself as one of the most important voices in horror for a new generation. This was followed up with the release of Fear Street in 1989, which remains the best-selling YA series in history with more than 100 books published thus far, and Goosebumps in 1992, which transformed Stine into a worldwide celebrity. The series was soon adapted as a hit TV series and recently returned as a blockbuster film starring Jack Black in 2015 from Sony/Columbia Pictures, with a sequel hitting theaters in 2018. Stine has continued to create exciting new horror concepts for younger audiences each year, in turn becoming one of the most successful American novelists of all time.

Currently, Just Beyond: The Scare School, Just Beyond: The Horror at Happy Landings, and Just Beyond: Welcome to Beast Island are available for purchase wherever books are sold. Just Beyond: Monstrosity will be available at local comic book shops on October 20, 2021 and bookstores everywhere on October 26, 2021. Digital copies can be purchased from content providers, including comiXology, iBooks, Google Play, and Madefire.

Print copies of JUST BEYOND: MONSTROSITY 2021 FCBD SPECIAL will be available for FREE on August 14, 2021 exclusively at participating local comic book shops (use comicshoplocator.com to find the nearest one).

For continuing news on the JUST BEYOND series and more from BOOM! Studios, stay tuned to www.boom-studios.com and follow @boomstudios on Twitter.