Kickback is a stylish piece about a corrupt cop on a corrupt police force in a corrupt city. It’s by David Lloyd, the co-creator of V for Vendetta. According to an interview on Newsarama, the story sat in his drawer for seven years before being sold to a publisher in France (and eventually brought to [...]

Linkage here.
There’s another article on Comics Research & Such providing some nice ancillary comments.
When I was in 7th grade, I used this comic in an in-class demonstration about comics. It was the first moment I realized just how good Joe Sinnott was as Kirby’s inker. I still think of Sinnott’s iconic, sleek look whenever [...]

Per our friends at Newsarama. I thought his run was okay, nothing special. I did like the first story, but the FF’s been stuck in Civil War tie-in mode. My own opinion on the best and worst FF runs are unchanged:
Pantheon: Lee/Kirby, Byrne, Simonson.
Slight step down from Pantheon: Wolfman’s run (seriously, FF 200 is [...]

If you’re in the mood for the ultimate geek putdown, do I have the webcomic for you at today’s Achewood!
Or, if your taste buds demand one of the grossest (and thus awesome!-ist) comics ever, look at our champion Hate Song today!
Finally, if witty, urbane, the-entire-cast-of-Friends-wish-they-were-this-hip humor is what you’re craving, we’ve got your flavor at [...]

Trivia question: Who is the best Spider-Man writer not named Stan Lee?

J. Michael Straczynski
Paul Jenkins
Gerry Conway
Howard Mackie

BZZZT! None of the above!
The answer, my friends, is J. M. DeMatteis. And it’s not even close. His run on Spectacular Spider-Man in the 1990s with Sal Buscema was a personal favorite of mine, and his work was so [...]

From Boing Boing: This fascinating link of Disney animator Carson Van Osten’s Comic Strip Artist’s Kit.
There’s some fantastic advice for the young comic strip creator there. I’d love to see this in print. Many moons ago, I worked in a comic book store (it’s long gone now), and we would get tons of requests for [...]

It’s over here. He doesn’t have a PC, but apparently he’s getting it done somehow. I guess now Void women everywhere won’t be getting as uppity and stuff. Long live Male Light!
Note to those who haven’t read Cerebus: this is what we in the intarwub blogosphere call sarcasm. See, Cerebus used to be one of [...]

I want to like this book more than I did.
Paul Jenkins has rarely disappointed in his decade-plus career as a comics writer. He was given the impossible chore of replacing Garth Ennis on Hellblazer and survived with three years of great stories. He not only made the Inhmans interesting, but he revitalized the [...]

Choice A:
The Vampirella MySpace page, with friends like Warren Ellis and The Goon’s Eric Powell (”Well, helloooo, Vampirella! I’ll be in the parking lot waiting to give you hepatitis! *wink*)
Choice B:
The cover for NextWave #11:

Poor Mark Millar. He writes a company-wide mega-hit, and his thanks? This.
If I were him, I’d make Civil War even later. [...]

…or how to justify spending a lot of money on comics.
I buy a lot of comics. A lot of comics.
Actually, scratch that. I buy a lot of graphic novels. I buy books in series I like. I buy indie graphic novels. I buy oversized superhero books. I buy webcomic compilations. I buy reproductions of old [...]