Super Best Friends Forever

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DC Collectibles has announced two of its exclusive offerings for New York City Comic Con 2013. Fans who attend the show from October 10-13 at the Javits Center will be able to pick up a Super Best Friends Forever: Poison Ivy PVC figure as well as a DC Comics Super Heroes: Hal Jordan & Saint Walker action figure 2-pack at the Graphitti Designs booth #755.

The Super Best Friends Forever have battled Cheetah, Poison Ivy and even Superman himself (or at least his rules). This Saturday on Cartoon Network's DC Nation block, though, the trio of Supergirl, Batgirl and Wonder Girl confronts Solomon Grundy...

This weekend during Cartoon Network's DC Nation block, Supergirl will have to deal with being grounded. No, she's not walking across America, just being kept at home under the orders of a certain Cousin of Steel for misbehaving. When her super best friends Wonder Girl and Batgirl arrive seeking her aide in a battle against evil, however, the young heroine can't resist lending a hand...

For those who weren't sufficiently impressed by the animated debuts of Super Best Friends Forever or Plastic Man because they weren't quite obscure enough, it's possible that this Saturday's DC Nation on Cartoon Network will bring a smile to your face...

This weekend, we finally got a look at the DC Nation project that I've been most excited about, Lauren Faust's Super Best Friends Forever. In the debut short, Faust -- whose previous credits include Powerpuff Girls, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic -- brings about as much charm and cuteness as it's possible to cram into 76 seconds, and the end result is

You've already seen concept art from Super Best Friends Forever, the new animated series of shorts from Cartoon Network's Saturday morning DC Nation block by Lauren Faust, creator of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, but would you like to see a clip from this weekend's first episode...

For me, the announcement of Cartoon Network's "DC Nation" shorts was one of the best pieces of TV news in recent memory. As much as it focused on the big names like Superman and Batman, one of the best things about shows like Justice League Unlimited was getting to see a spotlight on some of the more obscure characters, and a series of shorts built on that same idea, including a return