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Field Tripping #1-5
Field Tripping Vol.1
What better way to learn about the seasons than travelling to a world that cycles through all of them in ONE DAY?
And what better way to learn about the cycle of life than to get attacked by man-eating plants?
Actually, there are MUCH better ways. But Mrs. Flubbins' class are about to learn that the HARD way.
Part of the comiXology Originals line of exclusive digital content only available on comiXology and Kindle. This title will be available as part of comiXology Unlimited, Kindle Unlimited, and Prime Reading on release.
And what better way to learn about the cycle of life than to get attacked by man-eating plants?
Actually, there are MUCH better ways. But Mrs. Flubbins' class are about to learn that the HARD way.
Part of the comiXology Originals line of exclusive digital content only available on comiXology and Kindle. This title will be available as part of comiXology Unlimited, Kindle Unlimited, and Prime Reading on release.
- GenresComics
128 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 1, 2019
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About the author
James Asmus
312 books67 followersJames began writing for live theater; creating sketch comedy, stand-up, plays and musicals. After a few years writing and performing in New Orleans and Chicago, a run of one his shows in New York garnered an offer to write for Marvel Comics' X-Men. A lifelong comics fan, James pounced on the opportunity and would go on to write Marvel titles like Uncanny X-Men, Captain America & Bucky, Gambit, Runaways, Generation Hope, Deadpool Team-Up and more.
His work for other comics publishers includes Thief of Thieves with Robert Kirkman (creator of the Walking Dead) and The End Times of Bram & Ben (which he co-created with Jim Festante) for Image Comics. In 2014 James signed a year-long exclusive deal with Valiant Entertainment where he wrote The Delinquents and Quantum & Woody - the latter of which received 6 nominations at the 2014 Harvey Awards; including Best Writer, Best New Talent, and Special Award for Humor noms for James.
He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife Mara and son Devlin. There, James has written for film, television, and video games. But he plans to create comics as long as you'll have him.
His work for other comics publishers includes Thief of Thieves with Robert Kirkman (creator of the Walking Dead) and The End Times of Bram & Ben (which he co-created with Jim Festante) for Image Comics. In 2014 James signed a year-long exclusive deal with Valiant Entertainment where he wrote The Delinquents and Quantum & Woody - the latter of which received 6 nominations at the 2014 Harvey Awards; including Best Writer, Best New Talent, and Special Award for Humor noms for James.
He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife Mara and son Devlin. There, James has written for film, television, and video games. But he plans to create comics as long as you'll have him.
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February 27, 2022A schoolteacher has access to an interdimensional bus, because of reasons which are eventually explained but with which everyone initially seems surprisingly chill. She uses this to take the kids on trips to other worlds, which are supposedly educational – though while you can see how it would broaden their horizons, surely seeing worlds where history and even physical laws can be entirely different would be at least as likely to confuse as enlighten, especially for the young? Having established the set-up, I was settling in for a series of lighthearted hijinks, with each issue seeing a kid or two rescued from some outlandish peril. Except that before the first issue is done, the bus' control gets broken, leaving them pinballing around space-time, which seems very reminiscent of certain other long-standing properties.
And then the next issue picks up some years later, with much of the class lost or dead, and the remainder weirdly altered by their adventures. So one of them is now in an old man's body; another is going through puberty while stuck inside indestructible armour; and so on. At which point I realised what was going on here. Not content with completely mucking up the core app for digital comics, Comixology have made another decision very nearly as inexplicable, and reinvented 2000AD's recently and mercifully concluded Survival Geeks. Worse, they've skipped straight over the early, passably amusing stories and gone straight from the introduction to the later years where it got increasingly tangled in its own lore, with decreasingly entertaining results. Oh, and also it's more earnest, and the action scenes are harder to follow, and the unbordered speech bubbles blend a little too easily into the background.
It's not entirely dreadful; at its best the art reminds me of, and I don't quite know how to put this, but the pastel, dreamlike backgrounds in the cartoons after the cartoons everyone rates? You know, when Tom and Jerry went weirdly modernist? Not that the cartoons were good overall, you understand, but I always liked the backgrounds, and there's a little of that here. I was also very taken with the little girl whose brain is now in a bear's body but who keeps forgetting that she is now large and terrifying. And simply being able to throw anything and everything at the wall means that a few laughs inevitably stick along the way. But it does nothing to shake my established belief that Comixology's in-house productions are never better than so-so, and now they've apparently decided to bump their app down to the same frustrating level.
And then the next issue picks up some years later, with much of the class lost or dead, and the remainder weirdly altered by their adventures. So one of them is now in an old man's body; another is going through puberty while stuck inside indestructible armour; and so on. At which point I realised what was going on here. Not content with completely mucking up the core app for digital comics, Comixology have made another decision very nearly as inexplicable, and reinvented 2000AD's recently and mercifully concluded Survival Geeks. Worse, they've skipped straight over the early, passably amusing stories and gone straight from the introduction to the later years where it got increasingly tangled in its own lore, with decreasingly entertaining results. Oh, and also it's more earnest, and the action scenes are harder to follow, and the unbordered speech bubbles blend a little too easily into the background.
It's not entirely dreadful; at its best the art reminds me of, and I don't quite know how to put this, but the pastel, dreamlike backgrounds in the cartoons after the cartoons everyone rates? You know, when Tom and Jerry went weirdly modernist? Not that the cartoons were good overall, you understand, but I always liked the backgrounds, and there's a little of that here. I was also very taken with the little girl whose brain is now in a bear's body but who keeps forgetting that she is now large and terrifying. And simply being able to throw anything and everything at the wall means that a few laughs inevitably stick along the way. But it does nothing to shake my established belief that Comixology's in-house productions are never better than so-so, and now they've apparently decided to bump their app down to the same frustrating level.
June 1, 2022
Everyone on board the Sci-fi School Bus!
Like a science fiction version of the Magic School Bus (it is a cartoon if you have never heard of it before) students get to take "educational" trips to other worlds to learn things but instead of the more intelligent Ms. Frizzle we get the ever optimistic teacher Mrs. Flubbins who often means well but sometimes is the harbinger of doom whether she likes it or not. After an accident breaks the controls for the trans dimensional drive of the school bus the young students are sent on a wild and often dangerous ride through time and space leading often enough to either death or being uniquely changed often giving them new options to survive. There are a lot of scary and unusual worlds out there and this more kid friendly version of dimension traveling that reminds me a bit of Black Science, Vol. 1 and the magic school bus if they had a strange comic book baby. :)
The only real complaint I have about the book is the representation of tears when they happen looking strange in their huge droplet style but I can overlook it thanks to the already silly drawing style often represented in these stories. In fact be sure to stick around after the main story to see an assortment of stories about some of the things that happened to the students as drawn by an assortment of guest artists. :)
Like a science fiction version of the Magic School Bus (it is a cartoon if you have never heard of it before) students get to take "educational" trips to other worlds to learn things but instead of the more intelligent Ms. Frizzle we get the ever optimistic teacher Mrs. Flubbins who often means well but sometimes is the harbinger of doom whether she likes it or not. After an accident breaks the controls for the trans dimensional drive of the school bus the young students are sent on a wild and often dangerous ride through time and space leading often enough to either death or being uniquely changed often giving them new options to survive. There are a lot of scary and unusual worlds out there and this more kid friendly version of dimension traveling that reminds me a bit of Black Science, Vol. 1 and the magic school bus if they had a strange comic book baby. :)
The only real complaint I have about the book is the representation of tears when they happen looking strange in their huge droplet style but I can overlook it thanks to the already silly drawing style often represented in these stories. In fact be sure to stick around after the main story to see an assortment of stories about some of the things that happened to the students as drawn by an assortment of guest artists. :)
September 6, 2023
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June 9, 2022
Good premise: what if the magic school bus broke and the class were such traveling the multiverse with no way home. Unfortunately it doesn't live up to the potential, and the only reason I managed to force my way through it is I have nothing else in my backlog. Mediocre on most measures, if you pick this up via prime you are getting what you pay for.
April 15, 2022
2.5 stars
Not great, not terrible. Would have liked more backstory on some of the characters, and some funnier jokes. Art style seemed like a mix between anime and a traditional cartoon.
Not great, not terrible. Would have liked more backstory on some of the characters, and some funnier jokes. Art style seemed like a mix between anime and a traditional cartoon.
March 12, 2025
What a delightful concept. A school field trip of inter-dimensional travel. Then someone screws up and they get stuck and have to find their way home. The banter between students was great and the villains superbly villainous. Think The Magic School Bus on acid. What fun!
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