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Sally needs to get a RESTRAINING ORDER

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JOMPBPC November 2024: Day 16 Graphic Novels

[eb-the-gamer]

Something I am pleasantly surprised about is the fact that a lot of sequel stories for Nightmare Before Christmas in recent years focus more on expanding the other characters dealing with new adventures. In particular Sally

With the news about a potential sequel series/special I was looking into it, and I'm surprised about the stuff I didn't realize was out.

-played Oogie's Revenge, it's got its issues sure, but I love how it let's you explore the environments, the stationary camera inherent to the devil may cry kinda game it is and the original music goes a long way to making it feel really authentic. Plus making a capable manipulative villain out of Oogie when all we had before was a small amount of screentime is nothing to sneeze at.

- Want to play "The Pumpkin King" for GBA. I've heard it's a great metroidvania. I like the idea that Oogie was once the king of a lesser holiday, and I wish his goony army of bugs appeared after it too.

- The Manga "the Battle for Pumpkin King" is also an interesting alternate prequel I haven't read yet, again about Oogies origin as a villain, though this time he was Jack's friend before competing for the title Pumpkin King.

-read the "Zeroes Journey" Manga and it gives some nice looks into the Elves and life in Christmas Town, as well as Lock Shock and Barrel. It has some surprisingly darker and heartfelt moments than I was expecting which was a nice surprise considering it's about Zero running off to Christmas Town.

-I'm excited to get "Long Live the Pumpkin Queen" based on what @bogleech has said about it.

- Ive heard there's another sequel Manga called "Mirror Moon" where Sally deals with a doppleganger as Jack becomes what amounts to Halloween Jahovas witness, trying to bring some Halloween to the other holidays as well.

[mellimagicsblog]

Got my copy of TNBC: Mirror Moon (#1 was not available for pre-order)

While the story is, of course, still being released, there's one plot beat that surprised me.

Jack is not the scarecrow.

Soooooo... unless there's a crazy twist in the end that Jack was disguising himself as "Mr. Gourd" the whole time, that kind of retcons everything where Jack can transform into the scarecrow or at least use it as a costume.

Heck, it even retcons some old merchandise where Jack clearly has the pumpkin mask.

And I guess Jack being "the Scarecrow" in the French version is just because he's tall.

-This is a world of mixed up monsters and ghosts, so I could think of a few other possibilities of how there are scarecrow creatures that look exactly like Jack in this previously established form/costume, but it's kind of a lot to rewrite in my head.

[madillhethen]

There’s a lot of conflictions over the new translation, and people saying finding the ideal translation is an illusion, and yeah, I suppose but I appreciate the work put in. (Still really wish we got an official translation…)

My only problem with FBates is please change the font 😂. Looks like a standard Times New Roman or Calibri, but it makes it rather difficult to read due to the thinness and digitalization over certain colors.

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"I like to think we would find each other in any universe."

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Which is your LEAST FAVORITE TNBC comic book, novel, etc?

Mirror Moon

Long Live the Pumpkin Queen

The Battle for Pumpkin King

Zero's Journey

Sally's Lament: A Twisted Tale

Hour of the Pumpkin Queen

LLTPQ: The Graphic Novel

TNBC Novelization

TNBC Manga (Colored or B&W)

Tim Burton's OG Poem

Voting ended onSep 13, 2025

Yes I'm making you pick one. Give your reasons in the tags!

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The unholy grail of wonky Jack Skellington proportions