Soon to be on Disney Channels across the globe:

We do seem to be literally swimming in comic book cartoons of late. I remember the days when I used to get so excited over my taped off the TV Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, kids these days don't even know their born, god I'm getting old.

Ok so this is a comic book blog and here I am writing about a tv show but Joss Whedon does write the comics too and it's a great excuse to have a picture of Eliza Dushku on the site, so there. According to the Hollywood Reporter Dollhouse will end with season 2, all planned 13 episodes will be broadcast starting back in the states 4th December. Joss himself said of the news that he will be "off to pursue internet ventures/binge drinking." on his Wedonesque blog which hopefully means we'll be getting some more Dr Horrible a little sooner than expected.

Dollhouse was a very strange animal, it started abismally quite frankly but by the end of the first season I was totally hooked. It's always seemed to me that Whedon sold the network one show whilst sneakily making another much better show which Dollhouse eventually became. The second season was admittedly off to a slow start but was just starting to get real good with episode 4 where we've now been left after the 'sweeps' break. Joss has said in the past that he will end this series properly so hopefully we've got some bloody good episodes on the way and at least we'll get a full story but I for one will miss this show and would love to see it return on another network or maybe through webisodes. In Whedon we trust.

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Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1222866/The-amazing-comic-book-adventures-Phill-Jupitus.html

Not a very big Daily Mail reader myself, feel as though I can usually make up my own mind about Asylum Seekers and abortions without their fear mongering judgements. On the occasions I have bought the Daily Mail, usually a Saturday for their fantastic Weekend supplement, I find myself just shouting at each page I turn. Sometimes they do have the odd interesting article like this one from Phil Jupitus talking about his love of comics.

For those of you that don't know, Phil Jupitus is a successful British stand-up comedian, noteable for his long running position as team captain on popular music panel quiz 'Never Mind the Buzzcocks'. Apparently he also has a great love of comic books dating back to the early newspaper comic strips and Dan Dare. If you check out the links above you can see for yourself that he not only is a comic book fan but quite knowledgeable about the subject too. Jonathan Ross you'd best watch your back it looks like you've got some competition for the position of comic book king of the UK celebrities.

Here are Phil's choices of comic books to read and it's very difficult to disagree with the bloke:

V For Vendetta
'Comics genius Alan Moore's 1982 masterpiece. Dark, political, thrilling.'

The Dark Knight Returns
'Frank Miller's 1986 reinvention of Batman, and the point where mainstream comics grew up.'

The Complete Calvin And Hobbes box set
'The best £70 you'll ever spend.'

Any of the Dan Dare reprints from Titan
'A reminder of how brilliant, how beautiful comic art can be.'

Easily my favourite episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was 'Once More with Feeling' the now legendary musical episode, everytime a tv show goes the musical route now we call it 'doing a Whedon'. Well Batman: The Brave and Bold has done a Whedon and gone all out with a musical episode titled The Mayhem of the Music Meister starring none other than Dr Horrible himself Neil Patrick Harris. There are quite a few numbers jammed into the full episode but this one was the most fitting for Something Silly, check out the Arkham chorus line. Bloody brilliant.

Link: http://erictanart.blogspot.com/

Ok confession time, I don't really know what's coming in the final season of Lost I just wanted an excuse to publish this most awesome poster by stunning artist Eric Tan. The poster is one of 16 that are being put out to celebrate and promote the final season of the now almost legendary tv show. You may remember we've featured his work before here because of the stunning X-Men poster he did. He's one of the guys that works on Pixar stuff and his latest work for Up! blew me away aswell as being hilarious, check it out.

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Link: http://ironman-armouredadventures.com/

Today is your final chance to get on board with our most awesome Iron Man competiton. If you want to get your hands on a copy of Volume One of Iron Man: Armored Adventures released on dvd on 7th September all you have to do is give us the answer to the question below by sending an email titled Iron Man Rocks! to gavinjones@sidekickcomicsuk.com. First correct answer wins. We want to thank everyone for taking part making this our first proper competition a resounding success.

Today's Question:

Who is the writer behind Iron Man: Armored Adventures?

Hint: All the answers can be found by visiting the official Iron Man: Armored Adventures website ironman-armoredadventures.com

Good Luck True Believers!

Winners you'll be notified by email by the end of the week. Nuff Said.

Link: http://ironman-armouredadventures.com/

It's the penultimate day in our week long Iron Man competiton and what a week it's been. There have already been two winners each winning a copy of Volume One of Iron Man: Armored Adventures released on dvd on 7th September. If you want to add yourself to that list all you have to do is give us the answer to the question below by sending an email titled Iron Man Rocks! to gavinjones@sidekickcomicsuk.com. First correct answer wins but remember there's a question a day for four days and we're on day three so if you don't win today be sure to check back tomorrow for your last chance to win.

Today's Question:

Who is Tony Stark’s best female friend?

Hint: All the answers can be found by visiting the official Iron Man: Armored Adventures website ironman-armoredadventures.com

Good Luck True Believers!

Winners you'll be notified by email by the end of the week. Nuff Said.

Link: http://ironman-armouredadventures.com/

Missed out yesterday? Well we like to spoil you here at Sidekick Comics so here's your second chance to win a copy of Volume One of Iron Man: Armored Adventures released on dvd on 7th September. We've teamed up with ITV DVD to offer a week of chances to win a copy of the dvd. Everyday this week we will be posting a question on the site and all you have to do to win is give us the answer by sending an email titled Iron Man Rocks! to gavinjones@sidekickcomicsuk.com. First correct answer wins but remember there's a question a day for four days and we're on day two so if you don't win today be sure to check back the next day for another chance to win.

Today's Question:

What is Tony Stark’s father’s name?

Hint: All the answers can be found by visiting the official Iron Man: Armored Adventures website ironman-armoredadventures.com

Good Luck True Believers!

Link: http://ironman-armouredadventures.com/

To celebrate the release of Volume One of Iron Man: Armored Adventures on dvd on 7th September we've teamed up with ITV DVD to offer a week of chances to win a copy of the dvd. Everyday this week we will be posting a question on the site and all you have to do to win is give us the answer by sending an email titled Iron Man Rocks! to gavinjones@sidekickcomicsuk.com. First correct answer wins but remember there's a question a day for the next four days so if you don't win today be sure to check back the next day for another chance to win.

Today's Question:

Who is Iron Man’s arch enemy?

Hint: All the answers can be found by visiting the official Iron Man: Armored Adventures website ironman-armoredadventures.com

Good Luck True Believers!

Link: http://www.ironman-armouredadventures.com

September 7th sees volume one of Iron Man: Armored Adventures hit the UK markets and to get you in the mood here's the trailer.

The story revolves around the teenage prodigy Tony Stark as he fights the good fight as Iron Man helped along the way by Iron Man regulars Jim Rhodes and Pepper Potts. It's not just the good guys from the comics though, upcoming movie bad guy Whiplash will be on hand to hand out some beatings aswell as A.I.M., Crimson Dynamo and ultimate bad guy The Mandarin. The show is all ages and if you've got an Iron Man obsessed kid at home just the sort of thing you could watch together.

The series kicks off with a two partstory; Iron Forged in Fire from Sidekick favourite Christopher Yost who in my eyes can do no wrong, you may know his animated work from Wolverine and the X-Men and X-Men: Evolution and the most excellent comic book series X-Force. With thirteen episodes in the first volume and a knockdown price of just £7.99 (Play.com) this is one Marvel Animated Adventure you can't afford to miss.