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  • Published: 27 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9780593526835
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99

The Last Comics on Earth: Across the Doodleverse

From the Creators of The Last Kids on Earth



The fourth and final installment of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series based on the worldwide phenomenon The Last Kids on Earth!

The fourth and final installment of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series based on the worldwide phenomenon The Last Kids on Earth!

In this final LAST COMICS adventure, our superheroes must face a mysterious new threat: Someone is stealing kids' schoolwork-margin doodles and turning them into an army of ANIMATED sketches! WHAT CAN OUR heroes do against the manic, illogical brilliance of LIVING doodles?! While they fight, Boy Lightning's drawing arm is kidnapped by a new villain and taken into the wastelands beyond the borders of Apocalyptia. Now our team must brave AS YET unseen worlds in order to save Jack from the machinations of DOODLEHEAD! Can our heroes save the world from a doodle-pocalypse?

  • Published: 27 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9780593526835
  • Imprint: Viking
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $29.99

About the authors

Max Brallier

Max Brallier is a 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. Max lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter. Visit him at MaxBrallier.com.

Jay Cooper

Jay Cooper’s books don’t normally include grisly murders, nefarious deeds, or corpses of any kind. He has written and/or illustrated more than twenty books for kids, including The Spy Next Door, The Pepper Party, and the Bots series, and has contributed work to the New York Times bestselling series The Last Kids on Earth. Currently he is illustrating a graphic novel entitled Super Atomic Wombat Girl. He’s also a graphic designer of theatrical advertising, and has worked on more than a hundred Broadway musicals and plays (which have heaps of deaths). Visit him at jaycooperbooks.com or follow him on Twitter @jaycooperart.

Praise for The Last Comics on Earth: Across the Doodleverse


"Terrifyingly fun! Delivers big thrills and even bigger laughs.” —Jeff Kinney, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Diary of a Wimpy Kid, on The Last Kids on Earth

“[A] triple-threat outing . . . with plenty of Captain Underpants in its DNA . . . Creative, quip laden, and replete with manic mischief to lighten the message.” —Kirkus Reviews on The Last Comics on Earth

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