Great for Bill and Ted fans and movie cult followers. This graphic novel keeps with the mood and idea of the movie and the text and storylines do as well. Yes, it's cheesy, but so was the original stories in the original formats. There's one main story, then a few extra short ones at the end (with different artists for each, it appears). 

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Do we really need more Bill and Ted 25 years later? If your answer is "Yes", then you'll enjoy this series. Lynch does an admirable job of extending the spirit of the movies and serving us a capable plot.

I enjoyed this book and feel it is a fitting continuation of the first two movies. it is a fun ride and I hope the long talked about 3rd movie will use this as a source material if it ever actually gets made. Bill and Ted are truly EXCELLENT!

Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for the chance to read and review this book. My honest review follows.

Dude!

This comic takes place like a Bill and Ted movie3. Taking place pretty much right after the end of the second film. I really liked it!

The writers did a great job of translating our beloved dudes to comic form. Not only did they look great, but they really felt the like the same characters. I could hear the dialogue in Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves' voice. They were still very silly, but sweet and goodhearted. Not always the easiest feat! There are plenty of favorite characters ( Rufus, Death, Station etc) and plenty of new characters to keep it familiar, but not a retread

Another thing I liked was the lovely little foreword from Alex Winter, who I wish we heard from more. As well as the small collection of mini comics. They were a lot of fun.

I definitely recommend it especially to Bill and Ted fans, and cravers of 80's nostalgia. for a younger audience I would rexommend watching the 2 films first.

Be excellent to each other.

If you grew up in the 80's, or are a fan of ridiculous comedy films, then you have heard of Bill & Ted. Brian Lynch continues their journey in Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return. 

Bill & Ted's Journey

Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return takes place following their second film, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, where they win the battle of the bands, and put everything right with the world, for now.
Now, in true Bill & Ted fashion, take that idea and flip it upside its head.
Bill and Ted are living on the excitement of having their girlfriends, and winning the battle of the bands. Someone asks about their second hit song, and the duo find themselves stumped. What will their second hit be? As their robot dopplegangers tend to rocking their babies back to sleep, Bill and Ted realize Station has been in the bathroom for far too long.

Come to find out, that upon entering the next room they find themselves in an entirely different time and place. They have landed in a future where high school education includes a course in 'Bill & Ted 101'.

San Dimas 2645

Be excellent to each other. Party On. Imagine finding yourself in a world where your slogans and ideas were not only on band posters, but on billboards, and even the foundation of the civilization. Statues of your likeness are popular decoration.

The world is your playground, and people hang on your every word. All except for one, Chuck DeNomolos. The teen that will one day grow up with the life mission to kill the legendary Bill and Ted, and ban anything associated with their personalities.

Ted comes up with the idea of helping Chuck DeNomolos improve his social situation, with the idea that DeNomolos will experience a better upbringing, and not be focused on killing the musical duo. Though what ends up happening is far more colorful.

DeNomolos

Chuck DeNomolos took Ted and Bill's leadership, learned not only how to play guitar, then he goes so much further. He learns how to play so well that he can replace the duo as the winner of their battle of the bands. Rewriting history, the future is a miserable place, where any resemblance of enjoyment is illegal.

Reality under DeNomolos is frightening, frankly. Smiling is outlawed. Partying is punishable. Entertainment is outlawed by Emperor DeNomolos. Today's popular foods such as tacos and pizza are illegal. Even slang words from San Dimas' vocabulary such as 'dude' are considered profane, while air guitar will get you arrested.Given the alteration of reality, several of Bill and Ted's allies are no longer that either. Death has no clue who they are.

Rufus and Station

With the help of Rufus and one half of the alien Station, the duo are able to return things to the way they should be. The ending is even more righteous than the way this story began. And if that's not enough, there are several short stories included. For those fans that just can't get enough!

Thoughts

When I came across a Bill & Ted comic book, I (like most people) thought "there's no way they could top the films." I was mistaken. The air-guitar duo have outdone themselves, not without a bit of help from friends. And with a foreword by Bill S. Preston Esq. himself, Alex Winter, I knew it had to be worthwhile. The flavor was certainly different than what I have become used to, however I am glad I gave it a read. 

Few characters can permeate themselves into your psyche the way Bill and Ted are able to, if given the opportunity. Brian Lynch makes it feel like a seamless transition from the big screen to the pages of this graphic novel. Do yourself a favor, and see where this story takes you. If ever you were a fan of the films, you owe it to yourselves to finish the saga!

If you were a fan of the Bill and Ted movies, you'll enjoy this comic. Picking up where the second movie ended, this follows the plot that would be used for a third. As crazy and off-the-wall as the movies, the spirit continues on in this book. I would recommend it for any who enjoys that type of humor.

This took me back to the movies. Loved it! Made me quite nostalgic!

It's rare when something like this works, a comic book series detailing future (or past) adventures of Bill and Ted? Normally, that sounds like a mess, but this series only added to the awesome characters that were established in the first two movies. It also reminds me of the Back to the Future comics which added a lot to a already great franchise. I understand the uneasiness, but this is a great book worth of the (Air Guitar Riff)  Excellent! Bill and Ted.

From the publisher: Bill and Ted must now fulfill their destiny to become the inspiration for galactic harmony, but at what cost! In an adventure of epic proportions, one change to the future will set the Wyld Stallyns on a time-travelling odyssey of music, villainy, history, and excellence! 

From Brian Lynch (Angel: After the Fall; screenwriter of Minions) and Jerry Gaylord (Fanboys vs. Zombies), experience Bill and Ted's most triumphant return! Also featuring short stories from Ryan North (Unbeatable Squirrel Girl), Kurtis Wiebe (Rat Queens), Christopher Hastings (The Adventures of Dr. McNinja), Ian McGinty (Bravest Warriors), and many more!

I just finished reading Brian Lynch's Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return. It was an entertaining book that captured the spirit of the original movie, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. The story picked right up from the sequel film, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, with our heroes Bill and Ted having won the San Dimas, California Battle of the Bands. Now, however, they have to write a second song. What to do...if only they had access to a time machine in the form of a telephone booth (remember those?) Wait, they do. Bill and Ted head into the future to find out what their second song is. Along the way, they run in to the teenage version of their arch-nemesis Chuck de Nomolos. They decide they want to help him out so he won't grow up evil and decide to kill them. What happens next could only have happened to Bill and Ted. Time-travelling shenanigans ensue, and everyone learns more excellent lessons from Bill and Ted.

I loved the original movie when I was a kid, the second less so. But regardless, when I realized that the story of Bill and Ted was continued, I leaped at the opportunity to read and review it. And my verdict is that Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return is good. It's a fun adventure, and Lynch perfectly captures the spirit of the movies. Many of our favorite characters return, and there is more development of the world that the music of Wyld Stallyns (Bill and Ted's band) inspires. My only caution is that it's different to read Bill and Ted's adventures rather than just watching them.

In addition to the main storyline, the collected edition of Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return also contains multiple short stories starring some of the side characters from the movies.

Overall, I can recommend Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return by Brian Lynch. I particularly recommend it to fans of the movie, but I think new readers may enjoy it as well. And remember, Be excellent to each other! And party on, dudes!

I received a preview copy of this book from Boom Studios and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Review	This book is a fun dive into what's makes Bill and Ted special to their fans. Set immediately after the events of the first film we see the duo under pressure to write a new song and find a way to support their most excellent families. They go to the future for inspiration and end up trying to help their greatest enemy. It's tangent city afterwards as the guys race through several possible futures, trying to fix their own

A decent book, peppered with bonus stories as well as multiple pieces of cover art.  If the artwork didn't look so Cartoon Network-y it might have gelled with me a lot more than it did.  The main story is a decent enough attempt at imitating the wacky, convoluted shenanigans of the two films.  Recommended if you're a fan, although that design won't be for everyone.

Certainly not my 'thing' but definitely triumphant! A most excellent rendition of stories featuring Bill and Ted and their non-bogus adventures. This will definitely capture the hearts of any Bill and Ted fan.

'Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return' by Brian Lynch is the sequel we didn't think we'd get.  I'm not sure some of us wanted one either.

Starting with a pretty decent interview by Alex Winter, the story then starts with all kinds of chaos.  Bill and Ted are living the dream with little Bill and Ted and the princesses, but their future isn't as secure as they thought it was.  While they look for lyrics to their second hit, they find someone who is not a fan of Bill and Ted.

The movies are fun because you have airheads Bill and Ted, but you also have the historical figures that showed up along the way.  What this story is, is just the airhead parts.  Death shows up as a supporting character and some of the other historical folks make cameos.  Instead, it's a story of these characters trying to fix their timeline.  It's fine for what it is, but I was hoping for a better story.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from BOOM! Studios and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

Growing up in the 90's, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its sequel Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey was a big part of my early teen years, and; along with Wayne's World; had a fairly big role to play in my worldview (and my most-excellent non-heinous usage of English, dudes).

Who wouldn't love a story about two lovable, good-natured doofuses traveling time to learn important lessons, so that one day (when they're all grown up) they can achieve their greatness, and bring harmony and joy to the world.

B&TEA taught a generation to "be excellent to each other" and showed historical figures like Abe Lincoln not as staid, boring figures of legend but as human, flawed, doofy and funny. The cast sold the story with their genuine joy and enthusiasm, and the quirky stories were silly fun with a message: believe in yourself, and don't be afraid to ask others with more skill and experience for help: a most excellent society is built on connections .

I'm happy to report that the comic book versions of Bill S. Preston (esquire) and Theodore "Ted" Logan are true to form, picking up right where Bogus Journey left off.  Having righteously won the battle of the bands, the dudes are faced with the most odious pressure to follow up with a second song.

Intimidated, they decide cheat a little by traveling to the future to listen to the by-now-a-classic tune. Of course, the course of truly excellent dudes never did run way smooth, and the Wild Stallyns soon find themselves on yet another wild ride through time.

The art is an early-90's-hued joy to behold, capturing the aesthetic perfectly. It really does feel like a bodacious vacation in 1990, and I had a sudden hankering to wear daisies and listen to Dee-Lite.

Yes (way), the story is silly, but that's kind of the point, and the writing manages to keep it on the clever side of silly. If you loved the movies, and you approach the comic with the same mindset, you'll find Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return completely upbeat and optimistic and just plain fun! Party on!

I loved both Bill and Ted movies when I was growing up so I jumped at the chance to be able to review this. The first story was about the two of them going into the future and trying to stop Chuck de Nomolos from killing them. At first it seems like they succeed in befriending him but then his evil plan comes to light and he takes over their lives. It was a good story totally in keeping with the Bill and Ted oeuvre.
There are several other shorter stories with different types of art that aren't as good as the main story but somewhere enjoyable. Definitely a book worth picking up if you're a Bill and Ted fan!

Three and a half stars
This book came out May 2

Most sequels are vastly inferior to their originals, with the possible exception of ‘The Bride of Frankenstein’, ‘Godfather II’ and ‘Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey’. The latter was released three years after ‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Journey’ and 1991 was to prove the year in which Keanu Reeves really broke through as a film star, not only appearing as Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan but as Johnny Utah in ‘Point Blank’ and as Scott Favor in ‘My Own Private Idaho’. Since then Reeves has achieved iconic status, most notably through his performance as Neo in the ‘Matrix’ trilogy, whilst never really persuading the critics that his talents as an actor amount to very much.

But what happened to Alex Winter, who played Bill S. Preston to Reeves’s Ted? Sadly, the answer is, not much, certainly not in comparison with his erstwhile co-star, which in part explains how he has come to write a Foreword for the comic book ‘Bill and Ted’s Most Triumphant Return’. And a very good Foreword it is, as is the book as a whole, managing to honour its filmic roots whilst mostly working in its own right, although readers will really need to familiar with ‘Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey’ to process what’s going on as this story picks up where the film left off. 

The artwork is bright and the text colourfully true to Bill and Ted’s (excellent not bogus) speech, although not always historically accurate (Billy the Kid was never a train robber). Still, Bill and Ted’s time travelling is fun, not least when claiming that Dr Who ripped off the idea of time travelling phone boxes, rather than vice versa.

This is, of course, a great time to bring out Bill and Ted material as the franchise is due to get a huge boost with Reeves and Winter due soon to reprise their original roles in a new movie scripted by Chris Matheson, the writer and director of the first two films.

It seems that ever since Laurel and Hardy every generation has wanted its own dumb and dumber double act but Generation X is particularly rich in this trope, boasting not only Bill and Ted but Wayne and Garth, Beavis and Butthead and Bart and Homer. As befits time travellers, Bill and Ted transcend the generations and although it certainly helps you don’t need to be a Generation Xer to enjoy ‘Bill and Ted’s Most Triumphant Return’.

Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return #1 by Brian Lynch et. al. is a free NetGalley e-comicbook that I read in late April.

Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Return #1 seems to take place after the events of Bogus Journey, since Death seems to have stuck around and they still have wives, infant children, and robots modeled after themselves. Where this comic delves into is mostly like that of Syndrome from the Incredibles, where the past (or the future, in Bill & Ted's case) influences the comeuppance and evil robot-building power of the angry brute, de Nomolos, who remembered a teasing Bill & Ted from his middle-childhood, stokes a seething hate for Wyld Stallyns, seeks to change the end of Excellent Adeventure so he is responsible for the grand finale, and creates a sad, not at all excellent, dystopian future.

This brought back the nostalgia of watching the movies as a kid. Great work here!