Tina M. is a sophomore at the Yarborough Academy taking a class on the lessons of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Specifically, she’s learning a lot about existentialism, and it’s all just in time, since her social and school lives are somewhat falling apart.

Mix: One wacky girl with one tiny dinosaur; Result: Big Fun! THE ADVENTURES OF SIMONE & AJAX collects three full-color, zany tales of Simone & Ajax: “The Case of the Maltese Duck,” “A Christmas Caper” and “Simone, Queen of the Jungle,” plus extras by Eisner-winner Andrew Pepoy (FABLES, THE SIMPSONS).

Teenage boys in small-town Oregon await news on their fathers, who are off fighting in Iraq, while trying to cope with adolescence and their own needs to determine what it means to be a man.