This is what curiosity got me. Should have learned from the cat.
Stitch! Best Food Forever–Comics Giveaway Day 2026
Tokyopop (May, 2026)
WRITER: Tom Mason
SCRIPT TRANSLATION: S. Hagino & S. Nemoto
ARTIST: Nao Kodaka
COVER DESIGNER: Sol Deleo
RETOUCH/LETTERING: Vibrant Publishing Studio
EDITOR: Andy Rogers
Stitch saves Earth from a meteor, but is forced to crashland in Yuna’s vegetable garden. With all the veggies uprooted, they decide to make vegetable soup. That’s it. That’s the plot.
Okay, I’m clearly not the target audience for this so take my review for whatever its worth. This is a comic for younger kids, so at least there’s a page explaining how to read it for American kids. The art is good. Stitch is on model for his Disney design and yet fits into the art of the rest of the comic. It’s better than other young reader comics I see these days.
But who the heck is Yuna? US kids who haven’t read the full graphic novel to know this girl, since she and Stitch clearly know each other (then again so does the astronaut at the space station Stitch passes by while Stitch just calls him “alien”) are going to be confused what happened to Lilo. Not helping is that a second Stitch comic came out for the event (Dynamite had one on the Free Comic Book Day side) that even if Lilo is missing still featured characters kids would recognize from either version of the movie. They’re really banking on Stitch to carry a story where he makes soup for half the book of really big panels.
I guess it’s a good book for the target age group, which I am clearly not part of. I kind of wish this wasn’t one of the comics I grabbed in favor of leaving this for another kid and picked up something else, slim as my pickings were between the two stores (one had a limit and the other was out of most of the offerings).
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