35 Books in 30 Days 7: Book of Lost Souls 1 by J. Michael Straczynski and Colleen Doran

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. [...]

Webcomics Goodness 9/29

Tough Friday, right? Gotta pay the rent/mortgage and wrap up all those end-of-month actionables, right? Stressed out and need a laugh? We’re here to help. We have 7- one, two, three, four, five, six, seven- examples of webcomics goodness. Get to clickin!

35 Books in 30 Days 6: Kafka by Steven T. Seagle and Stefano Gaudiano

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 use an [...]

Webcomics Goodness 9/26/06

So that’s what my cat was saying this morning. (From Two Lumps)

35 Books in 30 Days 5: Absolute Dark Knight by Frank Miller

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 [...]

Webcomics Goodness 9/22

3 strips for you this morning; take your pic: Questionable Content mixes quantum mechanics and sexual fetishes together and comes up with a joke that all dirty-minded physicists will be using for years. Reprographics, the web’s best fumetti comic, gives us the new ditty about cubes. Cubes! xkcd reminds you why you shouldn’t drive after [...]

35 Books in 30 Days 4: Captain Amazing by Scott Kurtz & Steve Jackson

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 [...]

35 Books in 30 Days 3: Kickback by David Lloyd

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 [...]

Webcomics Goodness 9/15

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 [...]

35 Books in 30 Days 2: Kraven’s Last Hunt by J.M. DeMatteis and Mike Zeck

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 [...]

35 Books in 30 Days 1: Revelations by Paul Jenkins and Humberto Ramos

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 career [...]

35 Books in 30 Days

…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 [...]

Webcomics Goodness 9/11/06

From today’s No-Talent Hack: