Cupcakes

Each weekday, ComicsAlliance brings you a carefully selected variety of links from around the web about comics and comics-related media, including movies, video games, toys, and whatever else might be worth noting. Quite frankly, these are items you may just need to know about to have a productive day. Take a look at today's hand-picked links after the jump.

Sad news for fans of diabetes: Hostess, the makers of Twinkies, Zingers, Ding Dongs and a line of Fruit Pies has shut down its operations due to cash flow problems and an unwillingness to compromise with striking workers. And while I'm no financial expert, I think we all know the reason for Hostess's decline: They stopped advertising in comic books...

Upcoming: Fantagraphics Books and Alexander Street Press are making the complete archive of the The Comics Journal available as part of its Underground and Independent Comics online collection. The archive will serve as a scholarly online collection and include "more than 25,000 pages of interviews, commentary, theory and criticism from the 35 year history of The Comics Journal...

Delicious: Star Wars fans can now get their hands on Han Solo frozen in carbonite -- sweet, chocolatey carbonite. Musicals: It looks like the ultra-expensive Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark musical is actually making money. Interviews: Guy Delisle talks to Actua BD about his upcoming travelogue from Jerusalem...

The company that shocked and amazed comic fans the world over with Green Lantern "Glo Balls" and Flash "Flashcakes" this time last year is back for another round of stunning snacks. Behold Transformers fans, "Chocwave Shockwave" cupcakes and "Snoballimus" Optimus Prime Sno Balls...

Cupcakes: Chef JB Cada and Stephanie Santos have baked up some awesome Game of Thrones cupcakes at The Regali Kitchen in the Philippines. Design: RedBubble is coming to NYCC next month and t-shirt designers can get in on the visit by entering a contest to have their design printed and distributed at the show, among other even bigger prizes...

What do you get when you combine the dry hilarity of Nedroid with presumably fantastic baking skills? Nedroid cupcakes, of course! Baked, iced and most likely eaten by Twitter users Emvasseur and Tomselleck69, the cupcakes featuring Nedroid duo Beartato and Reginald won the love of Nedroid creator Anthony Clark himself on Twitter last night...

I wanted to post this earlier, I really did, but after peeping these two dozen delicious-looking geek confections on ToplessRobot, I immediately had to leave the house for a bakery. This edible cross-section of nerdery was apparently baked and decorated by a woman named Mary Bynum's girlfriend...