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Little girls like superheroes! At least that's what WB's hopes with a while new universe created just for girls aged 6-12. As announced in a news blast the new line will come with heavy hitting partners, including Mattel, which will launch its first ever action figures for girls, Random House and Lego. Dolls for girls! Inconceivable! While the news is a stunner for the long boy-focused DC Entertainment line, with the swift evolution of comics to a co-ed undertaking, it's only good business. Plus, if you hang around Disney long enough you'll notice two things: #1 girl-based licensing programs like Disney Princesses make billions of dollars. #2 people like superheroes. Put em both together and you MIGHT have a winner.

Nerd girl fashion is popular...and stylish. Her Universe, the fashion line started by Ashley Eckstein, has been setting the trend for much of this and now they've teamed with Hot Topic to offer a line of Avengers outfits. Rather than cybernetic body armor and purple pants it heads more towards fishnets and sleeveless dresses. You can pre order it here.

With Convergence, aka Atlas Moving Vans, now rolling out in the DCU and the New 24 about to launch, several websites have taken a look back at The New 52, which launched in September of 2011 and super-charged the comics industry. As I've written several times before, the pr for the New 52 immediately lifted the entire comics industry with more customers coming into stores and finding a lot of new comics to read. Call it the Millennial Rush. The debut of Saga #1 six months later hooked those who were just nibbling and he rest is history: record breaking sales.

Chicago may be the Second City (later retconned to Third), but two of fandoms biggest geek gods are trying to build monuments to themselves!  (Kinda...

The Pulitzers, awarded for excellence in journalism, were announced yesterday, and the winner for cartooning was Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News. Finalists were...

This is sad but not surprising—given the insane rise in real estate prices in San Francisco, it was only a matter of time before the Cartoon Art Museum, which occupied a spacious and accessible spot near Market Street has been evicted so its space can be converted to something expensive and greedy. The museum will stay open until June 28th, and in a release they note that the move was not unexpected and they had already begun preparations, just like Cutter and Skywise.

Cartoonist Ty Templeton—generally considered one of the funniest people of his generation—is in stable but critical condition after suffering a heart attack wife, KT Smith reported on Facebook. Templeton, 52, suffered the attack yesterday but in an update today she reports he's in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator, but expected to be taken off of it tomorrow.

Who is the woman who's had the power of Thor for the last few months? Is she Angela? Is she Brunhilde? Is she Katie Sackhoff? Is she a horrible lie sent by feminizes to destroy men's enjoyment of life, love and laughter? Is she a symbol of Marvel trying to appeal to a wider demographic and sell more books? In May we will FINALLY KNOW THE ANSWER!

It's National Library week, and it's time for the annual list of most challenged books. Graphic novels are making the list pretty frequently, and...

Netfix and Marvel's first foray into comic book scripted series crackles with energy and hits all the right notes with series pilot "Into the RIng"

And another event, this one a screening of a documentary about one of Charlie Hebdo's earlier controversies followed by a talk with Art Spigelman...

There are a lot of comics events going on around town tonight but here's a pretty cool one, especially if you'd also like...