Starting next week, Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block will officially restore your chance to anime your life away via basic cable on Saturday nights. That's right, the fan-favorite Toonami will return on Saturday, May 26, reviving the anime-centric programming block that ran from 1997-2008 and introduced a generation to the likes of Dragon Ball Z, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Mobile Suit Gundam and dozens of other action shows.

As strongly hinted by a faux fan letter published in last month's issue of Daredevil, the mighty Michael Allred will be drawing a one-off issue of the Mark Waid-written Marvel Comics series that ComicsAlliance named one of the best of last year. Speaking with USA Today, the Madman cartoonist said, "Daredevil is one of the first comic-book icons I was ever exposed to. I clearly remember hanging upside down on the monkey bars at recess and reading a Daredevil paperback." It's difficult to imagine a more Allred-esque image than that, and it's obvious that fans of the artist's bright, high-energy pop-art style will enjoy his work with the superhero originally created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett, and whose current series has seen similarly excellent work from artists including Marcos Martin, Paolo Rivera and Chris Samnee.

Allred's artwork will appear in August's Daredevil #17. For more great Mike Allred comics, be sure to catch up on his and writer Chris Roberson's iZombie paperbacks in time for the Vertigo series' conclusion in August, and if you didn't know, Red Rocket 7 is one of the coolest comics ever and is available in a collected edition from Image Comics.

Click on to see Allred's full-size Daredevil illustration.

The world may just have gotten its head around the existence of Bronies, but following the successful revival of My Little Pony, the next ironic/totally unironic-gender-appropriation-of-a-nostalgic-toy-brand is already being dreamt up by Hasbro and its television subsidiary, the Hub. Care Bears fans, are you ready for... "Belly-Bros?"

You might think, after successfully reinventing the superhero movie genre with a series that has just hit a high point with the multiple-record-breaking The Avengers movie, that television networks would be eager for a piece of the Marvel superhero pie. Turns out, you'd be partially wrong: Of the most recent flurry of Marvel properties vying for live action television adaptations, currently only one is showing much strength. But then, we already knew that Hulk is the strongest of them all.

The fact that Jim Rugg is a pretty incredible artist isn't exactly news to anyone who's ever read Street Angel or Afrodisiac, but his latest project has blown away even a long-time fan like me. In Notebook Nerd, an art show at the IAm8Bit Gallery in Los Angeles, Rugg will be showing off a series of 50 incredible drawings done with ballpoint pens and notebook paper.

Rugg took inspiration everywhere from comics to video games to recreating his junior high book covers, and they are amazing. Check out a few of my favorites after the cut!

Despite acting as heroic agents of soil fertility around the globe, with the exception of Doug TenNapel's Earthworm Jim, the humble worm is rarely celebrated in pop culture. Artist and professional designer Andres Juarez is working to change that image, however, with a series of worm cosplay drawings called Super Lombrices. Sure, Juarez has had to make a few creative adjustments to worm physiology to make the creatures more aesthetically acceptable, but anyone who has looked down at a sidewalk after a rainy day will probably only appreciate this effort. Among the white, anthropomorphized worm drawings are Spider-Man, Link, Wonder Woman, M.O.D.O.K. and even a version of the Green Ranger (my personal favorite). See which of the Super Lombrices worms its way into your heart most after the cut.

Courtesy of Marvel, ComicsAlliance brings you an advance look at new periodical comic books going on sale in August, 2012. All of the following books can be purchased at finer comic book shops, where you can also pre-order your selections to ensure you'll get a copy before they sell out. Among the offerings from Marvel and its creator-owned imprint Icon for August including the celebration of Spider-Man's 50th anniversary, which includes special one-shot returns of the Web of Spider-Man, Sensational Spider-Man and Peter Parker, Spider-Man, as well as new Wolverine and Daredevil annuals written and drawn by the great Alan Davis.

In Glory #26 by Joe Keatinge and Ross Campbell, the titular heroine helps a young girl named Riley learn to defend herself in order to prepare for the coming war. Read more for a six-page preview of the issue, out today from Image comics with a totally sweet cover by CA favorite Ulises Farinas.

Comic Book Comics, the six-issue miniseries by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey that retold the history of comic books in comic books, finally gets collected on May 23 in an IDW trade paperback collection titled The Comic Book History of Comics: The Inspiring, Infuriating, and Utterly Insane Story of the American Comic Book History. This week, our exclusive preview from the The Comic Book History of Comics deals with the British comics industry and their Wertham-esque purges in the 1950s, the complex history of the (Captain?)Marvel (Miracle?)Man character, and the rise of a writer named Alan Moore.

A while back, I had a conversation with Jonathan Hickman where he talked about how he liked Grant Morrison's comics because the ideas in them were so good that they made him laugh while he was reading them. Ideas like that, the ones that go right past the jealous "I wish I'd thought of that" part of your brain and go straight to "this is amazing," are hard to find. But with The Manhattan Projects, the new series from Image that heads into its third issue this week, Hickman and artist Nick Pitarra have gotten to that level, and made it look easy

The stuff in this comic takes real-life scientists into a world of comic book mad science that's beyond anything I ever expected going into it, and it's just so good that it's impossible to read it without bursting into laughter -- even when it's anything but funny.

The instrumental album DROKK: Music Inspired By Mega-City One came out last week. The work of Geoff Barrow (best known as a core member of Portishead) and the film composer Ben Salisbury, it's a tribute to the synthesizer-based movie soundtracks of the Blade Runner era, as well as to the setting of Judge Dredd, the cult-favorite future-cop serial that's been running weekly in the British anthology 2000 AD for 35 years now. (In the slang of Dredd's world, "drokk" means, roughly, "goddamn it!") There is, of course, a Dredd movie coming out this fall, but DROKK isn't quite its soundtrack -- although it started out that way. We spoke to Barrow and Salisbury about the project, and about their connection to 2000 AD and Judge Dredd.

Saving the planet is dirty work, but for full-time heroes Jake (the dog) and Finn (the human), cleaning up is even messier business in this week's Adventure Time #4 by Ryan North, Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb. Boom! Studios has provided us with a look at five pages from the new issue, which features variant covers by Chris Houghton (Reed Gunther), animator Kassandra Heller, Scott C. (Double Fine Action Comics) and Adventure Time creator Pen Ward's mother, artist Bettie Ward. The issue also features a backup story by Chris Eliopoulos. Check out all four covers, plus the five preview pages from Adventure Time #4 after the jump.