Via Randi Mason, on Sunday, April 22 the fabulous and still-going-strong Books of Wonder store in NYC’s West Village will be hosting Graphic Sunday! with ten graphic novelists on hand to sign their children’s and young adult graphic novels.  Creator names and their works (all of which will be available for purchase at the store) are displayed prominently on the site.  Come on out and support comics for kids and teens as well as independent bookstores!

One of the Graphic Sunday! participants, Dave Roman, has a nice post about the event, as well as cluing us into another kid-oriented comics event put together by our neighbor Alex Simmons, called the Kids’ Comic Con.  This event will take place on Saturday, April 28 at the Bronx Community College, and lots of our friends will be there, so since I don’t live that far away it’s a pretty sure bet I’ll be there as well to represent ComicMix!

Forget that god awful looking CGI pup we’ve seen in the movie trailers.  The one, true Underdog will be collected on a three volume DVD box set this summer.  Released by Genius Products, under license from Classic Media, the $29.98 collection will feature digitally re-mastered episodes with Wally Cox (the voice of Underdog) sounding better than ever.  Not only that, the DVDs will collect the 1960s television series as originally broadcast so fans can delight in the additional escapades of Hunter, Go Go Gophers, Klondike Kat, Tennessee Tuxedo, King and Odie, Tootie Turtle and Commander McBragg.  The release date has been listed as both July 24 and August 6 while the god awful-looking CGI movie opens on August 4.

Trivia point: did you know that the meek, sheepish Wally Cox once was Marlon Brando’s roommate? Underdog, indeed!

Amid the "it’s been three days, is Johnny Hart still dead?" cracks elsewhere in the blogosphere, over at the Huffington Post student Frankie Thomas remembers Hart by placing his comics firmly in her childhood, then continues, "Let’s face it: when it comes to comics, print media is dead." She goes on to talk about the webcomics which excite her nowadays, which is a good thing for webcomics as HuffPo is an extremely popular group blog, but a bad thing when she confuses form with venue by referring to comic strips themselves as "a lost art" after she’s just extolled them.  (I think what she meant to say was that newspapers were a lost cause as far as comic strips are concerned.)

Seems to me it’s always more enjoyable to read people who don’t feel they have to put down one thing (print) in order to appreciate the other (pixels), so I much preferred Wil Wheaton’s short list of the webcomics that have made him laugh lately (including, of course, one featuring him).

Wizard is reporting that writer David Goyer has sold an idea to Warner Bros. for a movie focusing on DCU supervillains.

In Goyer’s vision, which he’s developing with fellow writer Justin Marx, Super Max would take place in a maximum security prison housing supervillains where a wrongly convicted Green Arrow has been sent and where he faces a number of inmates he helped put there in the first place.

Goyer tells Wizard, “He’s Green Arrow for the first 10 minutes of the movie, and then he’s arrested and his secret identity is revealed… Of course, tons of people try to kill him while he’s in there. We’ve populated the prison with all sorts of B and C villains from the DC Universe.” Goyer promises fans will recognize plenty of names.

Goyer is also planning a miniseries or graphic novel tie-in with the film.