All right, Bat-fans, make sure you’ve got your insulin ready, because the wooby factor is about the skyrocket.
The Source has announced that next month’s Batman and Detective Comics has a little something extra — and by that, I mean a second feature by Derek Fridolfs and artist Dustin Nguyen called “Lil’ Gotham,” which basically crams all the humor and cuteness they can into their tiny little frames.
Batman Annual #27, which is due out October 7, will have “Off Rogue Racing,” while October 14th’s Detective Comics Annual #11 will have “Question & Answer.”
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:55 am
This looks like a good candidate for Johnny DC, although I am not sure if they want to have two Batman features. As long as Marvel doesn’t do “Lil’ Logan”, it’s all good.
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:20 am
Weird.
(That’s all.)
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:03 am
I did this on The Source, and I’ll do it again here.
Here is Dustin’s website:
http://duss005.blogspot.com/
And here are two pieces that are done in the same style as these short stories:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9uWb2U6V3rQ/SIPxlW7ApSI/AAAAAAAABN4/jWG4g0vZbaU/s1600-h/gotham_min52.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9uWb2U6V3rQ/SFeLKiqH7oI/AAAAAAAABLU/M8BsG4c-mu0/s1600-h/MARVEL_little_originalscan72_firstpass.jpg
I especially love that Marvel one. Dustin is awesome, especially when he gets to do things the way he wants to.
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:42 am
I’m awaiting this. Dustin is, in my opinion, an artist’s artist. The guy wreaks of skill and massacres everything he touches. On the other side of this… ahem… “coin” is that Derek Fridolfs will be letting us peek into his crazy vision of Gotham’s Finest and Foulest. These two guys have been quietly shaping (the REAL) Gotham for a while now, so I’m stoked to read anything they throw down on.
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:46 am
Marvel’s been doing “lil’ Logan” since 1988’s Uncanny X-Men Annual featuring the first of many appearances by the X-Babies.
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:52 am
it’s almost like DC’s responding to the Marvel Super Hero Squad…
looks neat.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:05 am
Dustin is such an amazing artist with such a diverse style.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:10 am
Chibis!!!!
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:28 am
I WANT THE TOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIL’ TWO-FACE IS KILLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A HALF DISFIGURED LIL’ DUDE!!!! JUST WHAT EVERY KID WANTS FOR CHRISTMAS!!!
I’D COLLECT THEM ALL!!!!!
In the meantime, this looks like fun. ;D
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:29 am
DC responded to the Super Hero Squad BEFORE there was a Super Hero Squad, in Superman/Batman about a year ago: the mini-Justice League imagined by Superman during his hallucinations due to kryptonite, then made read by Mxyzptlk in a two-part story drawn by Rafael Albuquerque.
~JTS
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:44 am
I think Marvel created Super Hero Squad toy line (and subsequent cartoon) in response to DC’s Playskool Superfriends toy line (and subsequent comic) that came out a few years ago.
See: http://static.collectorsquest.com/users/resonantfish+231+items+212e82439af2915e43e650b9afbbcdd0.jpg
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:45 am
fun fun fun
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:59 am
why does everyone have to compare what dc does with marvel this seems to me like something worth being proud of and it has nothing to do with marvel or whatever else even if it did what difference would it make it’s not like marvel hasn’t taken ideas from DC The cover Of Marvel Zombies with spiderman which copies the cover almost verbatim of Blackest night so this is nothing new
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:21 pm
I love this soooooo much
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:21 pm
uh…I’m at a loss for words… o0
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Is the back-up in Detective INSTEAD of the Question or in addition to it?
If it is instead, this is bad news.
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
That Batman Family spread has been the background on my work computer since I first found a while ago - still love it.
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:38 pm
AWESOME!! I love this!
I wish they wouldn’t have Babs in the Batgirl outfit though. She hasn’t been Batgirl for a LOOOONG time.
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Rusty, as the blog post says, it’s for the ANNUAL, not for the regular monthly. Just the ANNUALs.
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Since we seem to be discussing it here…
I thought DC’s Superfriends toys were done in response to Toy Biz’ Spider-Man and Friends line…those two lines of figures are almost the same size proportionately and look very similar.
Super Hero Squad for Marvel was started by Hasbro 3 or 4 years ago…similar to the toys they do for Star Wars, Transformers, and GI Joe. I did notice that they have Batman: The Brave & The Bold figures exactly like the SHS toys…my youngest son got the Blue Beetle/Plastic Man pack for his birthday.
As for Lil’ Gotham…looks cute. I don’t buy Batman or Detective (I but B&R and Gotham City Sirens), but I would probably pick up a separate Lil’ Gotham comic…if not for me than definitely for my sons.
September 23rd, 2009 at 2:50 pm
This has nothing to do with anything from Marvel.
Please stop this ridiculous fanboy flame-bait speculation.
Anyone who follows Dustin Nguyen’s work on his blog or Deviantart knows that he has been doing these pieces on his own for a while now, and that they are simply an extension of an awesome idea spearheaded by an artist who loves Batman.
It isn’t DC’s “response” to anything.
Its Dustin’s response to his love of Batman and we should all just enjoy it as that.
September 23rd, 2009 at 5:35 pm
YES!!!!! No Stephanie Brown as Batgirl!
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Awwesome!
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:37 pm
looks sweet
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Cute, but utterly a waste of time.
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Awww, lil’ Catwoman is so cute!
September 24th, 2009 at 3:52 am
No Damian gen-joke as Robin and no looser Stephanie Brown as Batgirl! YESSSSSS! That alone makes Lil’ Gotham worth buying.
We get the real deal: Grayson as Nightwing, Drake as Robin and Babs as Batgirl.