I could take that copout, you know. 30 in Hexidecimal would work out to 48 in base ten, and I’d have a few extra days, and I could pretend it all worked out.
But I’d be denying one truth that I don’t want to deny- 35/30 worked for me in the most important ways. Sure, I [...]

So back when I started 35/30, I vowed to write something on all the books in the pile, read or not. With about a week to go, the pile’s huge, and I’m going to take a stab at the unread pile.

Truthfully, this is a tough month. There’s a lot of books on the unread [...]

This is the first part of Matt Wagner’s Dark Moon Rising Trilogy, in which he reworks three Golden Age stories into modern Batman continuity. We see Batman fight the menace of Huge Strange, a mad scientist who tries to fix the human genome but ends up creating- what else!- monster men. It’s great pulpy fun [...]

Boy, I’m glad I gave this book a second chance.
The Book of Lost Souls is an ongoing series by JMS (Babylon 5) and Colleen Doran (A Distant Soil, Orbiter). Marvel’s publishing it through their Icon imprint of creator-owned books. The story centers around Jonathan, a young man who commits suicide a long time ago. His [...]

Everyone who reads comics wants to write comics. Yes, you too.
Comics are the second easiest storytelling media to create, behind prose. All you need to make a comic is the ability to make words and pictures come together on a page to make a story. If you can draw, take photos, or [...]

How many major Frank Miller works aren’t in oversized books?
Dark Horse put out Sin City in 8 oversized tomes. Marvel’s putting his Daredevil work into two Omnibus volumes, and they’ve already published his Spider-Man work and collaborations with Bill Sienkiewicz in oversized hardcovers. 300, his story about the Persian invasion of Greece, was originally [...]

Scott Kurtz is best known for his work on the webcomic PvP, one of the longest running and most successful in the field. PvP started mostly as a strip focused on video games and gaming, but has evolved into a very entertaining situational comedy.
But before PvP (and this book), Kurtz was struggling to find [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]