Small bites ...

Scaring up some sales
Supernatural Law creator Batton Lash set up at this weekend's World Horror Convention in San Francisco, and found the crowd to be a little tough.

"The main problem with comic book conventions is that you're preaching to the converted,'' Lash told The San Francisco Chronicle. "So I came to get a new audience. So far, it's been a little slow.''

As of Friday, he'd sold four books.

No, we're not obsessed with American Idol ...
So, Chris Daughtry was robbed voted off American Idol on Wednesday. It turns out the singer was a comic-book fan when he was younger, and is now backing his cousin's efforts to encourage kids in his hometown to read.

The Roanoke Rapids, N.C., Daily Record reports that local students are urged to "rock a little" and "read a lot" at the public library. Any time students check out a book, they're entered in a contest for a chance to win T-shirts, posters and other items signed by Daughtry.

Winners will be announced on May 24, the same day this year's American Idol is chosen.

Meanwhile, back at stately Wayne Manor
Something tells me the DC Comics legal department may not take kindly to this ...

The Contra Costa (Calif.) Times reviews the premiere of Frankenstein!!, the San Francisco Symphony's horror show/comic sendup/cabaret that "delves into the surreal subconscious world of children's dreams and fears to the sounds of a giddy, endearingly one-of-a-kind score":

Elsewhere, Frankenstein!! turns comic, poking subversive fun at icons such as John Wayne, Superman, Robinson Crusoe and, of course, the title character. James Bond emerges as a tiny figure the size of the singer's pinky; Batman and Robin wake up in bed together just in time for breakfast.

Calls to the Batcave were not returned by press time.