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The critically acclaimed Mech Cadets franchise from Boom! Studios is returning to comic bookshelves for a long-anticipated sequel. The original Mech Cadet Yu series has already returned for a new re-launch collection called Mech Cadets Book One Softcover, collecting all 12 issues into one release. The new release arrives to promote the upcoming animated series adaptation from Netflix, coming this summer and currently slotted for an August 10 premiere.

Mech Cadet Yu fans will be happy to learn the good news rages on, as Boom! Studios announces it will be releasing a sequel to the original series. The sequel series will be titled Mech Cadets and will be compiled by the creative team of co-creators Greg Pak (Darth Vader) and Takeshi Miyazawa (Ms. Marvel), with colors by Ian Herring (Deadpool) and letters by Simon Bowland (Mech Cadet Yu). Below, readers can check out Takeshi Miyazawa and Ian Herring's main cover art, as...

Exclusive: Netflix’s upcoming 3D animated series, Mech Cadets will be released globally on August 10. Daniel Dae Kim (Lost), Ming-Na Wen (The Mandalorian), Brandon Soo Hoo (Teen Titans: The Judas Contract) and Debra Wilson (MADtv) will star in the Boom! Studios and Polygon Pictures production.

Hoo stars as Stanford Yu, a scrappy teenage underdog working as a janitor at Sky Corps who dreams of being a Robo Pilot. Kim plays General Aiden Park, the battle-hardened leader of Sky Corps Academy and the Mech Cadet program. As a father of one of the cadets and a General, he expects nothing short of perfection from his daughter and his soldiers.

Wen plays Dolly Yu, Stanford’s loving if a bit overprotective, mother and the calm head of the janitorial team at Sky Corps. Wilson plays Chief Max, a former Robo pilot, head of Engineering at Sky Corps, and mentor to the trainees.