Rich Johnston gives it a green light, so it must be so: DC is lining up a new kids’ series, DCU Elementary, in which your favorite DCU capes-and-tights types go to school. You have to scroll past some of the other tasty tidbits to get to it, but there’s some nice art at the link. (Sample lifted from LITG.)

British writer Ian Rankin blames the demise of kids’ comics in the UK for the subsequent decline in literacy there. As an American kid who grew up enjoying the exploits of Billy Whizz, Greedy Pigg, and Minnie Minx, I know whereof he speaks. But what’s interesting is that three of the five writers he polls share the inexplicable British love of the prose writer Enid Blyton. (Inexplicable when I read her works now, but I’ll cop to being a Secret Seven addict back in the day.)

Matt Thorn takes a May, 1970, issue of the Japanese girls’ magazine Margaret out of mothballs and finds some fascinating content. If that whetted your appetite, he has more images in an earlier post.

Glenn Carter reviews vol. 2 of The Dreamland Chronicles at Comics Village.

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