Forget the Mayan calendar, here's a far better indicator that 2012 may mark the end of the world. Two words: Watchmen toaster. More (less mindboggling) stories from the past week at ComicsAlliance, after the jump. ...

Over the weekend DC Comics announced a brand-new "New 52" Phantom Lady miniseries, co-starring Doll Man, from the writing team of Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray and drawn by Cat Staggs and Rich Perotta with covers by Amanda Conner. The book is the latest in a line of works written by Gray and Palmiotti that star characters from the Freedom Fighters superhero team, who are among the oldest ...

Sunday is Mother's Day, so don't forget to make your mother a card. If you need some help coming up with some ideas, Chris Sims and some of your favorite superheroes have got your back. But that's Sunday. What about this past Monday through Friday? Read on, after the jump! ...

It's a big weekend in the wonderful world of comics, as Saturday, May 5 is Free Comic Book Day. You can find your nearest participating comic book shop here, and, if you need any suggestions for what to pick up, Chris Sims has a few here. And, because it's a weekend during convention season, there's also a big comic book convention this weekend, the Toronto Comics Art Festival, for which ...

This week Aaron Colter spoke at length to Bill Ayers, retired University of Illinois professor and author (and, yes, co-founder of The Weather Underground) about To Teach: The Journey, In Comics, the graphic novel adaptation of his book To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher and his workshop at this weekend's Stumptown Comics Festival. And, as always, a lot of comics and comics-related stuff ...

When you were a child, you probably learned that "A" was for Apple, but as the AlphaBeasts! tumblr blog has so aptly demonstrated over the course of the last 26 weeks or so, "A" is also for Anubis, Alien, Amphisbaena, Anguirus, and a herd of other mythological beasts. ...

Two of the most talked-about comics-related events so far this year have been the announcement of DC's Before Watchmen initiative, in which the publisher will release a suite of prequel books to the 25-year-old foundational graphic novel over the very loud objections of its co-creator, and the impending release of The Avengers film, in which the 50-year-old team created by Stan Lee and Jack ...

DC announced several new comics at this weekend's Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, but the project that seemed to be getting the biggest promotional push -- with a viral marketing campaign, new preview art and even news of TV advertising -- was one they had already announced months ago: The controversial Before Watchmen suite of seven prequel miniseries. ...

This week we had a couple of interesting interviews having to do with the popular Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon series. First, Chris Sims spoke with Gene Luen Yang, the American Born Chinese cartoonist who is scripting a series of Avatar graphic novels, and then Caleb Goellner spoke with the show's creators about its sequel series, The Legend of Korra. We also had all of the ...

This being convention season in the comics industry, there was of course another con last weekend, and it brought with it a bunch of announcements regarding various publishers' plans for the near future. While I'm not entirely sure this qualifies as the biggest news of the con, and while I'm even less sure it qualifies as the biggest news of the industry's past week's worth of news as covered ...