Peanuty Titans

There’s a comic book series called Tiny Titans which takes characters from the superhero comic Teen Titans and reimagines them as elementary school kids with far less life-and-death in their conflicts. A lot of it is jokes that it would seem to only be meaningful to those with a working knowledge of the multi-decade history of the Teen Titans… but my three year old daughter loves it. Go figure.
Anyway, relevant to the AAUGH crowd: here’s a bit of the cover of the issue which hit comic shops today, and should soon be at newsstand locations:

Tiny Titans cover

(Larger shot of the cover and a few pages of the comic online here.)

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