Name: Featured – kids event: Max Brallier, “The Last Comics on Earth”!
Start: 2025-04-29T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-29T18:00:00-04:00
Location: White Whale Bookstore

“Tuesday April 29th, 2025 @ 5:00PM – 6:00PM

The perfect after-school weeknight activity? Bringing the kids to meet the creator of the books they’re obsessed with! That would be Max Brallier, author of The Last Kids on Earth series, who is coming to the ‘Burgh to chat about his newest, The Last Comics on Earth: A Song of Swords and Stuffies on *the day it is released*! How lucky are we?!

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 heroes 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 heroes arrive on the scene to help: the Laser Blade Hero Squad! Forming an alliance with our heroes, 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 heroes to get to the bottom of things, before Barbarious Fantastica, and the rest of Apocalyptia, becomes permanently adorable!

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.”

More info: https://whitewhalebookstore.com/events

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