It only ran for 27 issues, but I absolutely loved every bit of it. I was pretty disappointed when Marvel didn’t keep it going.

But no more! It appears that Marvel is bringing back Danny Rand this coming December. Word around is that we’ll learn more details at the Fear Itself panel at SDCC.

I know I’ll be reading it.

I found this first video via Geeks Are Sexy. A full 2:35 seconds of cartoon Robin being an idiot.

And if that wasn’t enough, here’s Burt Ward doing the same.

“Holy contributing to the delinquency of minors”? Are you serious?

DC Universe Animated Original Movies have been damn good in the past, and this one, due Oct 18th, looks like no exception.

My friend Ish sent me a link to this, and while I don’t agree with the assessment that Batman x 2 = Wolverine, it is still pretty awesome.

Original at moss.fm

-brian!

Via Bleeding Cool.

He’s smart, funny, and has a lot more interesting things to say about these costumes than most of us might have thought of initially.

He also gets it. He understands the cultural relevance of these characters. He gets why Superman and Spiderman work. Not just how iconic they’ve become (which is a large part of their value), but why they worked in the first place.

Well worth the time.

Dick Burger has been hailed by fandom as the greatest comic book creator since Jack Kirby. Unlike Kirby, however, Burger retained ownership of his characters and became a media tycoon, complete with a private jet furnished with a hot tub and a mansion in Los Angeles. He is also an insufferable bastard.

Leonard Bates is a North American journalist who is conducting research for a biography of Burger. When he travels to Hicksville, New Zealand to visit Burger’s childhood home, he discovers that no one in the village wants to talk to him about Burger. For reasons unknown to Bates, they are downright angry at him for even mentioning his name. They are delighted, however, to give Bates access to the town library, which contains the greatest comic book collection on the face of the earth (including several copies of Action #1 which they casually pull from the shelves). It turns out that everyone in the village is connoisseur of comics and they’d all read Bates’ earlier biography of Kirby. What is going in here? wonders Bates, and what’s the big mystery about Burger?

It sounds fascinating to me. I do enjoy more “real” comics, in addition to the standard superhero fare. Joe Sacco is probably my favorite non-fiction writer (check out Palestine and The Fixer, and Ryan Claytor (now a fellow Michigan resident) has done some cool autobiographical stuff, as well as a wonderful, sad piece called The Machinist.

My expectation is that Hicksville is a bit of that kind of tone – obviously fiction, but much more real-world than the typical comic book – melded with a bit of meta-awareness.

I’m going to hunt this one down.

Via DC’s The Source