The official story leading into the all-new Skylanders video game! The citizens of Skylands are in their most desperate hour as Kaos begins to tear the world apart with his newfound powers. Spyro and an elite group of Skylanders must enter an ancient and unknown part of Skylands and find the only hope left that can stand against Kaos' might! The origin story of the next big Skylanders video game starts right here!
Join Spyro, Pop Fizz, Trigger Happy, Stealth Elf, and more of your favorite characters in these brand new Skylanders adventures! Discover the history of the Trap Masters and Kaos’ plot for Traptanium that ties right into the new game.
SkylandersTM Trap Team: An Epic Adventure Awaits You! The magical floating islands of Skylands await you! But if you really want to master Skylanders Trap Team, you need a great guide. Here it is! Whether you’re young or old, you’ll love how this book offers everything you need to know to thrive in Skylands. It’ll help you discover the Skylanders’ most powerful new secrets–and it’s so easy! This book is packed with full-color pictures and great step-by-step instructions from Hayley “SkyPanda” Camille! She’ll help you get started, meet the characters, master your best strategies, and lots more! Get started fast! See what each of Trap Team’s characters can do Master the elements: Life, Water, Fire, Air, Earth, Tech, Undead, Magic, Light, and Dark Get ready for Doom Challenges and Arena Battles Capture villains in the Traptanium Portal Play as a villain yourself Find golden hordes, trophies, jewels, soul gems, scrolls, and more Beat other characters in Skystones Smash Unlock tricky Lock Puzzles Explore Skylanders Academy Expand your game with new Adventure Packs Challenge Kaos and ultimately defeat him! SkylandersTM Trap Team is a trademark of Activision Publishing Inc. This book was not created by nor is endorsed by Activision.
Hold on to your bananas - the Minions are back! The Minions are back, back for more! More chaotic catastrophes, more astonishing (mis)adventures, more mayhem, and definitely more banana related mishaps and misdeeds, And more bananas. Lots and lots of bananas! Follow the Minions before they meet Gru, as they search for the perfect criminal mastermind to be their new boss! A must-read before Minions: Rise of the Gru hits cinemas in 2022!
"Trying to help ... Violet and Dash are part of a Super family, and they try to help out at home in two adventures! Can they pick up groceries and secretly stop some bad guys? And can they clean up the house while Jack-Jack is 'sleeping?' Find out in these Super stories! Also included in this volume are a variety of activities, and a special feature on how comic books come to life!"--
Skylanders Superchargers: Your Next Epic Adventure Is Here! With the Skylanders SuperChargers game, the magic of Skylands is even more amazing! But if you really want to master the game, you need a great guide. Here it is! Whether you’re young or old, you’ll love how this book helps you discover Skylanders’ most powerful new secrets–and it’s so easy! This book is packed with full-color pictures and great step-by-step instructions from Hayley “SkyPanda” Camille! She’ll help you get started, meet the characters, learn great strategies, and lots more! • Master every hero’s attacks, upgrades, strengths, and vehicles • Dive, fly, float, barrel-roll, sail, and rev across Skylands • Defeat Count Moneybone, CockadoodleDoom, Stratosfear, and all the villains • Shrink giant chickens, pop colossal corn kernels, and harpoon Hydras • Surf tidal waves in the clouds, erupt volcanoes, and go totally berserk! • Overcome all of Great Grizzo’s elemental challenges • Race Skylands’ Frozen Fossil Festival and other tracks • Expand your game with new Racing Action Packs • Play with friends online • Conquer The Darkness and Kaos’ Doomstation of Ultimate Doomstruction! • Play with 20 new figures and 20 new land-, sea- and sky-based vehicles BONUS: Register your book at quepublishing.com/register to gain access to four online appendixes.
Covering genres from adventure and fantasy to horror, science fiction, and superheroes, this guide maps the vast terrain of graphic novels, describing and organizing titles to help librarians balance their graphic novel collections and direct patrons to read-alikes. New subgenres, new authors, new artists, and new titles appear daily in the comic book and manga world, joining thousands of existing titles—some of which are very popular and well-known to the enthusiastic readers of books in this genre. How do you determine which graphic novels to purchase, and which to recommend to teen and adult readers? This updated guide is intended to help you start, update, or maintain a graphic novel collection and advise readers about the genre. Containing mostly new information as compared to the previous edition, the book covers iconic super-hero comics and other classic and contemporary crime fighter-based comics; action and adventure comics, including prehistoric, heroic, explorer, and Far East adventure as well as Western adventure; science fiction titles that encompass space opera/fantasy, aliens, post-apocalyptic themes, and comics with storylines revolving around computers, robots, and artificial intelligence. There are also chapters dedicated to fantasy titles; horror titles, such as comics about vampires, werewolves, monsters, ghosts, and the occult; crime and mystery titles regarding detectives, police officers, junior sleuths, and true crime; comics on contemporary life, covering romance, coming-of-age stories, sports, and social and political issues; humorous titles; and various nonfiction graphic novels.
New forces have come to Skylands in the Light and Dark elements and the evil candy king, Pain-Yatta, may have found a way to harness those forces for his own, evil deeds. Can Knight Light, Gear Shift and their friends ban together in time to stop the avalanche of candy from crushing all of Skylands? Also included in this volume is "Graduation Day" featuring all your favorite Skylanders Minis!
