, the all-ages DC Comics title written and drawn by the Eisner-winning Tiny Titans team of Art Baltazar and Franco, will end with April’s #12, according to solicitation information released today by the publisher.Like the long-running CW television series Smallville, Superman Family Adventures will apparently end with a team-up of Superman and his various allies against Darkseid.The title, which began in 2012, was the first all-ages title from DC to utilize the New 52 costume designs, most notably the collar and red belt on Superman. Still, the stories are self-contained and out-of-continuity tales so the series has been a refuge of sorts for Superman fans disaffected by the changes to the character and his world brought on by the New 52.Superman Family Adventures is designed as a new-reader and all-ages friendly mix of comedy and action, with a villain generally popping up with some crazy scheme that Superman must thwart while the other members of the Daily Planet staff wonder where Clark Kent has gone and cater to a Perry White on the verge of a nervous breakdown.While it seems likely the cancellation of Superman Family Adventures is just setting the stage for a new, all-ages book featuring Superman and his cast that ties more readily into the forthcoming Man of Steel movie, it’s notable that there is at least one other all-ages title that doesn’t appear to be coming out in April.An e-mail to DC Comics publicity about the lack of a solicitation for a new issue of Green Lantern: The Animated Series was not returned as of this writing. If that title has been cancelled as well (last month’s issue was not solicited as a final issue, but that’s been known to happen before), it might signal a broader relaunch for DC’s all-ages line, something that neither they nor Marvel have been particularly averse to over the last several years.
