Tom Brevoort sounds off on Marvel’s DC trade-in offer
It’s a Tom Twitter Twofer today! Perhaps unsurprisingly, Marvel Executive Editor and Twitter king Tom Brevoort took to tweeting on the topic of Marvel’s offer to exchange unsold copies of the Blackest...
View ArticleStraight for the art | Aw, Hex Yeah!
We’ve seen Jonah Hex in a faux Justice League recently, so why not the Tiny Titans? Artist J. Bone offers a glimpse at what a Tiny Titans version of DC’s cowboy movie star might look like, squirt guns...
View ArticleEverything’s Archie
The Source brought the news last week of yet another crossover, and it’s a doozie: Turns out the Tiny Titans live right near Riverdale, and at last they are going to meet up with their counterparts,...
View ArticleWhat Are You Reading?
Welcome to a long holiday weekend (at least here in the United States) edition of What Are You Reading? Today our special guest is Doug Zawisza, who writes reviews and the occasional article for Comic...
View ArticleFood or Comics? | This week’s comics on a budget
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we’d buy on Wednesday based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we’d get if we had extra money or a gift...
View ArticleWhat Are You Reading?
Hello and welcome to What Are You Reading? Today’s special guest is Jim Zubkavich, writer of the Image Comics series Skullkickers and a project manager at UDON Entertainment. To see what Jim and the...
View ArticleComics A.M. | WonderCon attendance likely surpasses 39,000
Conventions | Although final figures aren’t yet available, WonderCon organizers confirm attendance likely surpassed the 39,000 fans who came to last year’s convention. [Publishers Weekly] Publishing |...
View ArticleHey kids, not-comics!: Art Baltazar and company’s Super-Pets can make...
Here’s a quick review of DC’s Red Lantern Corps concept, introduced by Geoff Johns and company in 2007: Long ago, The Guardians of the Universe created an android army to police all of an existence,...
View ArticleBaltazar, Aureliani’s Superman Family Adventures coming next May; Tiny Titans...
Along with the rest of the “Silver” comic books coming on Free Comic Book Day next year, DC Comics announced the DC Nation 2012 Free Comic Book Day Super Sampler, which will feature comics based on...
View ArticleMattel reveals Tiny Titans, Death San Diego exclusives
The operative word for Mattel’s San Diego exclusives this year would be “cute,” if the three DC Comics items they posted on their MattyCollector site today are any indication. As you can see above,...
View ArticleSeven thoughts on Superman Family Adventures #1
I’m not ashamed to tell you that when I read that DC Comics was canceling Art Baltazar and Franco’s Tiny Titans series, I collapsed to my knees, raised my eyes to the heavens and let out a long, low...
View ArticleGlad This Is Real | Yale Stewart’s Little League
I often look at fan art and wish that it was from a real comic. But sometimes — rarely — the artist goes right ahead and makes a real comic out of his fan art. That’s what Yale Stewart’s done with...
View ArticleAw yeah, the Tiny Titans SDCC-exclusive boxed set
This should lift the spirits of readers still mourning the end of DC Comics’ Tiny Titans: Cool Toy Review and Fwoosh have the first looks at Mattel’s Comic-Con International-exclusive boxed set...
View ArticleComics A.M. | Palestinian cartoonist released from Israeli prison
Legal | Palestinian cartoonist Mohammed Saba’aneh was released from an Israeli prison on Monday, as scheduled. Saba’aneh, who was originally held without charges and eventually sentenced to five...
View ArticleNYCC ’13 | DC Comics is reviving ‘Tiny Titans’
Longtime collaborators Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani have been on a roll recently, partnering their Aw Yeah Comics store with Alter Ego Comics, tackling Itty Bitty Hellboy at Dark Horse, which...
View ArticleQuote of the Day |‘When we’re at a convention, we’re like rock stars’
“We sit at home and make comics and we don’t really see the impact until we go to a comic show or we get letters. I get letters just about every day. I either get a letter or a tweet. I get physical...
View ArticleGrumpy Old Fan |‘People’ get ready for DC in June
Aw yeah! In my household, the best news from DC’s June solicitations is the six-issue Tiny Titans: Return to the Treehouse miniseries. I showed the cover to my 5-year-old and she was crestfallen to...
View Article‘Tiny’ Titans, ‘Mini’ Series — Aw Yeah!
It’s a good time to be Art Baltazar and Franco. The success of the original Tiny Titans series (2008-12) earned them an Eisner Award, and led to the tiny-fication of features as diverse as Hellboy,...
View ArticleComics A.M. | Oz Comic-Con scrutinized for scarcity of female guests
Conventions | Clem Bastow notes a disconnect at Oz Comic-Con in Melbourne, Australia, where women were a slight majority in the audience but were severely underrepresented as guests; DC artist Nicola...
View ArticleTalking Comics with Tim | Scheidt & Smiley on ‘Spooky Sleepover’
To my mind, there can never be enough all-ages comics. By all-ages, I mean comics that resonate and entertain folks of, well, all ages, not just children. So I was intrigued to learn that writer Dave...
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