There’s a conversation about kids’ comics currently bouncing around a number of comic blogs, starting with ICV2 and threading through The Beat, Comics 212, and Robot 6.

The discussion runs along two parallel tracks that occasionally overlap:

1) There are no good comics for kids.

2) They don’t make all-ages comics like they used to.

Although I’ve seen many counter-examples of both points, I have to agree with the sentiments behind them. They echo what Kyle and I have said to each other over the past few years, wandering out of comic shops empty-handed.

As kids, we hit the comic book store at least once a month, and the notion that we wouldn’t walk out with our arms full of as many comics as our allowances permitted was unimaginable. Unthinkable. Impossible.

I read my first Spider-Man comic at age six. It was a Pocket paperback collecting Amazing Spider-Man #11-20, the classic stories by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko — and it hooked me. I spent the next ten years catching up on back issues, origin stories, and the then-modern comics (I’m sure I bought every single comic that even mentioned the Hobgoblin on its cover).

That’s why we started Smash. We got to talking about what we missed in the comics that we grew up loving, and what we wanted to see in our ideal superhero comic, and decided to create it ourselves.

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We got a great review from the ArtPatient blog:

I always find it surprising that such little things like a fear of heights or a smudgy pencil line separate a supers comic from being above average to being noteworthy. And a good villain will always promote a comic to a higher plane of respectability. It will be fun to see where [Smash] goes in later seasons.

Click here to read the entire piece.

In case you didn’t know, Smash is on Twitter! Click here to follow us.

Unfortunately, so is the Magus! (As The One, True Magus.)

Not content to try and steal our pint-sized hero’s powers at every turn, the Magus has started his own Twitter feed in an attempt to prove that evil can be refined as well as ruthless.

Sample tweets:

The sound of helpless, shrieking innocents is music to my ears. My iPod is nearly full.

Some mornings, Evil tastes like blueberries and waffles. Others, hate and envy. I like my hate with bananas.

Click here to follow the Magus and subject yourself to his merciless daily musings.

In the Season One finale — Smash versus the Magus!

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Here are some pics we took when we were guests at the 2009 Victoria Comic Con (you already saw this one, of course).

We had an amazing time and hope to be back next year. (Click on any image to open the slideshow viewer.)

The very talented, and very dangerous, writer of SMASH — Chris Bolton — is having a birthday. He’s one year older, and one year more dangerous. Feel free to send him well wishes here or on facebook. Have a good one, Chris!

We had a great time at the Victoria Comic Con last weekend and can’t wait for next year!

To the left you’ll see the T-shirt design we sold at our table, and soon plan to start selling (along with this poster) on the site. Click the picture to enlarge.

This is the “Retro Smash” image created for an ad in the newest Eben07 collection, Operation: Mongoose. (Great comic — check it out!)

Meanwhile, we’ve gotten a few recent mentions around the Interwebs:

This Week In Webcomics
ArtPatient.com
Fleen (the webcomics blog about webcomics)