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One of the worlds biggest franchises is getting its own comics series, as IDW has announced it will publish Angry Birds comics starting in June. Jeff Parker and Paul Tobin are among those crafting the tales of Red, Chuck, Bomb, Stella, Matilda, King Pig and so on. The deal is being run on Rovio's end by Jukka Heiskanen, Rovio’s Editor-In-Chief of Comics.

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 1/17/14: People said thingshttp://ift.tt/1dBffqv Tweet § This appreciation of Cliff Sterrett’s great Polly and Her Pals says many of the right things: More...

Event season rolled on in November, as INFINITY reached its climax, while the Ultimate imprint's CATACLYSM got under way. Meanwhile, ASTONISHING X-MEN was relaunched as AMAZING X-MEN, and the MARVEL KNIGHTS X-MEN and LONGSHOT SAVES THE MARVEL UNIVERSE minis kick off. Though DC had four books in the top five - BATMAN, HARLEY QUINN, SUPERMAN UNCHAINED and FOREVER EVIL - Marvel still edged them in their share of the North American direct market, leading by 34% to 32% in unit terms, and 30% to 29% in dollars. As has already been pointed out on The Beat, this means Marvel and DC's combined dollar share dips below 60% - something that hasn't happened in a decade.

Wrestling Hall of Famer Mae Young died earlier this week, at age 90. She wrestled in 7 decades, as recently as 2010, a...

Yes it's another NYC event, but this two day festival of comics sounds quite worthwhile. The FREE event includes special events, panel discussions,...

Shocking claim: Booth Babes Don’t Workhttp://ift.tt/1dcEz1q Tweet Does sex really sell? We all know it does, but marketing dude Spencer Chen has a post at...

§ This appreciation of Cliff Sterrett's great Polly and Her Pals says many of the right things: More than 50 years later, it’s difficult to...

Does sex really sell? We all know it does, but marketing dude Spencer Chen has a post at Techcrunch that suggests Booth Babes Don’t...

Image Expo: Digital Remaining DRM-Freehttp://ift.tt/1hwhM5W Tweet by Bruce Lidl Last week’s 2014 edition of the ImageExpo has generated a large amount of coverage for both new...

DC shuffle: Scott Lobdell’s Teen Titans Ends, Kyle HIggins off Nghtwinghttp://ift.tt/1j32eaz Tweet With solicitations due Tuesday, some DC talent adjustments are being announced, civilly and...

Retrofit announces 2014 schedule and goes electronichttp://ift.tt/1dz6Sxh Tweet 2014 will be the year of adjustments. Mark my words. I believe Torsten was correct about 2013...

Just the nerd cetagories in the 2014 Oscar nominattonshttp://ift.tt/1asNTSd Tweet Just in case you didn’t get up to see Thor announce this year’s Academy Award...