Art & Franco take a lighthearted all ages approach to Mike Mignola’s Dark Horse superhero and movie star Hellboy in
Itty Bitty Hellboy #1, Chris Burnham curates a send-off to his team-up with Grant Morrison in
Batman Incorporated Special #1, and
Adventures of Superman #4 gives us some all star shorts in red shorts! Wash it down with a post-apocalyptic ComiXology Submit creator owned title
Fighting Stranger Vol. #1.
ITTY BITTY HELLBOY #1 (of 5)
WRITERS: Art Baltazar & Franco
ART: Art Baltazar
Publication Date: August 28, 2013
Price: $2.99
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
UPC: 76156823936200111
Buy it HEREAw, Yeah Hellboy!
You might recognize the team of Art & Franco from
Tiny Titans at DC as well as the most recent
Superman Family Adventures. Perhaps you’ve seen the
DC Super-Pets on Cartoon Network. The point is, Art & Franco have been doing kids or all ages comics for years and now they have broken away from DC to give the cute mischievous humor and art to the Hellboy Universe and the fun keeps on coming!
From our usual inside jokes, referring to running gags on the
Aw Yeah Podcast to Lil’ kid versions of everyone from Johann the spirit, Liz and Hellboy this book is just pure fun. They face off against kid friendly Karl (with exclamation point on his head), Rasputin and Herman The Head in varying sizes of cardboard box forts.
The book is worth the price of admission for the Johann chicken soup gag alone. True Story!
BATMAN INCORPORATED SPECIAL #1WRITERS: Chris Burnham, Joe Keatinge, Nathan Fairburn, Mike Raicht, Dan DiDioART: Chris Burnham, Ethan Van Sciver, Emanuel Simeone, John Paul Leon, John StanisciPublication Date: August 28, 2013Price: $4.99Publisher: DC ComicsUPC: 76194131789200111Buy it HEREChris Burnham was the artist chosen to work with Grant Morrison to close out the chapter of his Batman run known as
Batman Incorporated. Burnham filled in on issue #11, featuring Jiro and Canary, the Batman of Japan (Introduced in
Batman Inc., Vol. 1 #1). The first internationally franchised Batman character Jiro (also known as Mr. Unknown - too many names) is more Bruce Lee than Wayne and all of his adventures are fantastical weird sci-fi kung fu flick futurist tales of Tokyo.
Burnham introduces a new organ harvester villain, Dr. Inside Out in this issue that has the best use of a capsule hotel as a story device I’ve ever seen. Let’s hope Burnham moves to the writer/artist part of the business because I think he is great at both.
This book is an anthology looking at various international Bat-Associates from El Gaucho, the somewhat controversial Night Runner, Squire, Raven Red and Man-Of Bats. You’ll never guess it, but when DC Co-Publisher Dan DiDio writes a story about some wacko DC C-Lister (See
OMAC, Wednesday Comic’s Metal Men), its quite good. DiDio and Ethan Van Sciver drive it home with a Bat-Cow backup that’s something to be seen to believed. Damian Wayne’s former pet, Bat-Cow, is absolutely the hero. And he has a cape. Bat-Cow wears a cape.
For answers to the many questions Rebirth leaves the fans with, we headed to “Meet The Publishers” panel at New York Comic Con on Saturday afternoon.
