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1. Glee-bio-mics.

2. What's MOME?

3. the Spider-Mobile.

4. Quitely's Krypto

6. Madballs was quite fun

7. The Joker. Hey, can't deny that it wouldn't be fun, with Ellis writing it.

8. Dilton. All his power and he couldn't even get laid...

9. Pope should do a Dr. Doom comic.

10. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

14. JH Williams would be great to see on Sandman.

15. Cool cover gimmick: A "covered in bandages used by Stan Lee" exclusive cover, with a 1000 to 1 order ratio for retailers.

17. Joe Kelly's Deadpool

18. Local? Sadly, we've got nothing up here.

19. His Violator mini-series.

20. Franklin Richards and Carnage

4. Though I like Quitely more as an artist, I like Lockjaw a lot better as a concept, so I'm gonna go with Lee's Lockjaw.
6. I don't remember most of the ones I read, but I do have fond memories of ROM: Spaceknight.
7. The Russian. Hey, you didn't specify what kind of "BIG" you meant.
10. Gorillaz, if only to see Hewlett doing comics again.
12. Probably one of S. Clay Wilson's disgusting pornographic vignettes about pirates. Those were always good for a laugh.
14. Jacen Burrows
15. Mood covers: Covers with temperature sensitive "mood ring"-style surfaces put in at selected points so that components of the cover will change color the longer you touch them.
17. The entire Comico series of Grendel, preferably with War Child included.
19. I haven't read a lot of Moore's Image stuff, but his run on Supreme bored me to tears.
20. The Hood and Moon Knight

3. What’s your favorite comics work by Gerry Conway, not counting the Death of Gwen Stacy?

His early "mystery" (ie: tame horror) stories for House of Mystery and House of Secret. I believe he was a teenager writer then.

6. What’s your favorite licensed book from Marvel? Come on, Strawberry Shortcake fans. Let’s here from you!

good question, i liked the stuff Howie Post did for the Star line (although shortcake had better art than story) - I would guess most folks would go for Conan - but i'd guess i'd say "My Friend Irma" (which unlicensed became My Girl Pearl.

8. Who’s your favorite Archie supporting character, outside of the core group of Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica and Reggie?

I first thought of Jellybean, but I guess Hot Dog would be my longterm choice.

10. Which musical act that has NEVER had their own comic SHOULD have their own comic? (P.S. I really want to write Nine Rings of the Wu-Tang. And also: Britney Spears: Magic Galactic Defense Princess
11. Before we begin: Nobody loves Chynna Clugston Major more than me. But did Queen Bee… um… kind of suck? Or am I just not the target audience?

Richard Thompson (and it would be cool if dumb to have the comic strip artist Richard Thompson draw it)

>12. What’s your favorite Pirate or Pirate related >comic?

Piracy and Buccaneers

19. In tribute to Jog: What’s your least favorite work by Alan Moore?

Marvelman (ie: Miracleman) - it's aged badly.

steven rowe

3) Firestorm.
4) Jae Lee's Lockjaw.
6) Bill Mantlo's Micronauts.
12) Bill Mantlo's Swords of the Swashbucklers.
14) Neal Adams, Bill Sienkiewicz, Jim Lee, Ashley Wood,
Ben Templesmith, to name a few.
15) How about pop-up covers.
17) Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol run. (sigh)
18) Alan Moore's Big Numbers. (only 2 issues published)
19) Tomorrow Stories.
20) Marvel Zombies and Walking Dead zombies. With Kirkman
writing it.

12. SCURVY DOGS!!!!!

15. Tom beat me by about an hour. I thought of pop-up covers too.

13. You mean the Doom Patrol story, or the more famous Substitute Heroes story that came later? The Subs story is pretty funny; the Doom Patrol story not bad but a little more restrained.

1. The Cute-Memoir genre, consisting of folks like James Kolchalka and Gabrielle Bell and Jeffery Brown when he’s not being all emo or all INSANE like that last issue of Mome needs a name. What should we call the un-tragic, fun comics memoirs?

"I've suffered for my art, now it's YOUR turn!" Too long, I know.

2. Speaking of which, who’s your favorite MOME artist?

Don't own a single issue, but despite being completely underwhelmed by The Night Fisher, I'll say R. Kikuo Johnson, who's art is very good.

3. What’s your favorite comics work by Gerry Conway, not counting the Death of Gwen Stacy?

I frigging hated most of Conway's 70's stuff, the possible exception of his short stint on Daredevil and the Black Widow. I think it was early in his comics scripting career, before he got carried away with the hack mannerisms. I read a few of his Phantom Strangers that were OK, too.

4. Which is awesomer: Frank Quietly’s awesome Krypto or Jae Lee’s awesome AWESOME Lockjaw?

Haven't read ASS 6 yet (I get my comics bi-weekly), so I'll go with Lee's Lockjaw.

5. Who’s your favorite character from Ernie Pook’s Comeek?

Y'know, I haven't read that in ages, and I don't remember any one character standing out...

6. What’s your favorite licensed book from Marvel? Come on, Strawberry Shortcake fans. Let’s here from you!

I'm more of a Raspberry Tart guy myself. I never really paid much attention, let alone bought, most Marvel licensed comics. Star Wars, I guess. I bought the first 7 or 8 issues back in the day.

7. Which BIG villain should be stuck on the New Thunderbolts?

Who cares?

8. Who’s your favorite Archie supporting character, outside of the core group of Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica and Reggie?

Again, don't care much. Sabrina.

9. Just read Batman: Year 100, which was indeed dag cool. What other fictional character do you wanna see Paul Pope draw.

The Shadow.

10. Which musical act that has NEVER had their own comic SHOULD have their own comic? (P.S. I really want to write Nine Rings of the Wu-Tang. And also: Britney Spears: Magic Galactic Defense Princess

Los Lobos, by Jaime Hernandez.

11. Before we begin: Nobody loves Chynna Clugston Major more than me. But did Queen Bee… um… kind of suck? Or am I just not the target audience?

Sorry, didn't read it. Gues I'm not the target audience, either. I wasn't a fan of her work before, but after Strangetown and her recent Teen Titans Go!, I'm kinda liking and can't imagine her being less than stellar right now...

12. What’s your favorite Pirate or Pirate related comic?

Captain Fear, in the 1970's Adventure Comics, by Alex Nino and later Walt Simonson.

13. So I’ve got a full collection of Ambush Bug appearances except for his first appearance in DC Comics Presents and his guest spot in Supergirl. Am I missing anything?

As I recall, the DCCP appreance was pretty good, but he was kinda different then from the Bug we know and love. Didn't read the Supergirl.

14. Who would you like to see draw a story for Sandman: Endless Nights Two. (Which I just made up.)

Jen Wang, or Jerry Grandenetti.

15. Challenge: We’ve had holographic covers, die-cut covers, color form covers. Invent a cool cover gimmick that hasn’t been used yet?

Scratch and sniff. I hate gimmick covers.

16. Would anyone out here but me buy The Golden Age Alfred archives?

If I could afford to, sure!

17. What long run of comics should be collected in an omnibus, ala Locas or Morison’s New X-men?

Brave and the Bold. Maybe Hellblazer.

18. What’s your favorite self-published or micro-independent comic by a local creator?

Why, Fatalysia, of course!

19. In tribute to Jog: What’s your least favorite work by Alan Moore?

Gotta be that Spawn/W.I.L.D.Cats crossover. Wasn't crazy about the Fighting American, either.

20. Which two Marvel/DC/Image characters that have never been featured together should be teamed-up in a single book, ala Superman/Batman or Power-Man and Iron Fist?

Oh, geez, who knows- Chance Falconer and Sugar & Spike. Black Widow and the Danger Girl team. See why I don't write comics?

Crap- I meant to just post a numbered list. Oh well. Also, yes, I know it's "whose" in #2, not "who's"> That be a typo.

1. "magic" Autobiography.
2. I would have to go with James Kochalka. I've got American Elf volume 1 sitting next to me; it came just today.
6. The early issues of ROM: Spaceknight were fun, but then it got kind of iffy, kind of hit-or-miss later on. The only liscenced title of Marvel's that I've enjoyed in the beginning, middle and end would be Shogun Warriors.
8. All bit players in Archie comics look identically ugly and Doonesbury-esque, but I'd go with Miss Grundy for her delightful anachonistic archtype of the elderly "schoolmasteress."
10. Daft Punk had an anime, what's stopping them from having a comic book? It would work so well, too, because they're French, France has that enormous comic market...it would sell enough to keep going in America and France.
15. Everyone's saying Pop-Up covers, so I'll go out on a limb and say...cover printed on a real sheet Bubblegum. It's been done with whole trading cards, back in the 1990s, so this is definitely possible.
16. That's a tough call. It might be one of those I'd like to have, but I definitely wouldn't buy it. Archives are so expensive, I've gotta work my way through some major stuff before I get into obscure territory.
18. My own anthology Chalice Comics, which only has my stuff in it.
19. I'll have to answer this after I've read a work by Alan Moore other than Watchmen and that, unfortunately, will become my answer by default.

1. Emo Comics

2. So many of them...David B, John Pham, Paul Hornschemeier, Jeffrey Brown, Sophie Crumb

3. Cinder & Ashe

4. Quietly's Kyrpto...barely sqeeking out Lee's Lockjaw.

5. Don't read it

6. For Marvel licensing I have a soft spot in my heart for all the old Marvel movie adpatations. If that doesn't count... Godzilla.

7. If we're talking big as face name, I'd love to see Loki. If we're talking big sized, Ellis' Atlas would've been interesting.

8. Cheryl Blossom.

9. Paul Pope's Spider-Man... 98 page HC!

10. Gwar: the Comic!

11. I don't know. You a 13 year old girl? Care to lift up your skirt and show the class?

12. Ostrander's take on Captain Fear during his run of Spectre.

13. Couldn't give 2 turds about the Bug.

14. JH Williams, Richard Sala, Brian Bolland, Jason, and Taka Senada.

15. The newest fad: Scratch & Sniff Comic covers! Smell the sweat from Batman's outfit!

16. Uh....No.

17. Ostrander's Spectre

18. Anything by Jordan Crane

19. Batman: Killing Joke. When it came out and I a kid, it was the end all, but now....its not all that great.

20. Tough one... Let's see: The Spirit/Savage Dragon (lots of punching!), Spectre/Dr. Strange, New Gods/Thor, Leave It to Chance/Power Pack

4. Gotta go with Quitely here.
6. No love for Larry Hama's G.I. Joe?
8. Ethel.
10. That's a tough one, because there are _so many_. Pere Ubu could be pretty neat, theoretically. (On a related topic, anyone see that Lee/Kirby tribute Madvillain video?)
12. Probably cliche, but does "Tales of the Black Freighter" count?
13. It's been a long time since I read them, but to the best of my recollection, you're fine without those two.
17. Ostrander's Spectre. And that came to mind before I read DubipR's comment.
19. I just recently read Supreme, and my main impression was "Wow, it's like All-Star Superman, but not as good." So that, yeah. Unless you count his "Doctor Who" comics, which are also pretty weak, but I don't think it's really fair to count them, so I won't.

8. Who’s your favorite Archie supporting character, outside of the core group of Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica and Reggie?

Midge is too good for Moose.

10. Which musical act that has NEVER had their own comic SHOULD have their own comic?

(Combined with #15)

15. Challenge: We’ve had holographic covers, die-cut covers, color form covers. Invent a cool cover gimmick that hasn’t been used yet?

A Pink Floyd comic with an LSD-laced cover.

19. In tribute to Jog: What’s your least favorite work by Alan Moore?

I may be a minority of one but I never liked The Killing Joke.

3. Some of his JLofA stuff in the 70s.

4. Quitely's Krypto -- beautiful body language.

6. Master of Kung Fu's original run.

7. The Leader. Smarter than Osborn, weirder than Venom, and more interesting by miles than Bullseye.

8. Dilton Doiley

9. Humbert H. Humbert

10. The Libertines and Babyshambles. C'mon, Pete Doherty's a horrible drug addict who gives free concerts and who married a supermodel in a legally dodgy ceremony. How is that not already a comic book? It'd be like Amazing Joy Buzzards if Warren Ellis were writing it.

12. Captain Fear, Marvel's odd pirate hero of the Golden Age...who was established as having fought against Franco during the Spanish Civil War, making his politics...interesting...as well.

13. No. He was just a comedy villain in those days, really.

14. J.H. Williams IIII

15. The edible cover, printed on Fruit Roll-Up.

16. If it were softcover, sure. But not for 50 bucks.

17. Master of Kung-Fu: The Moench/Gulacy years.

18. My friend John's long-defunct one-man anthology comic, Spandex-Free America. Entirely desktop published.

19. Toss-up between the Voodoo miniseries, his two-part Vigilante fill-in from the 1980s, and the issue of Spawn wherein he did all he could to avoid having to write any of the book's regular characters.

20. Hercules and Quicksilver. Imagine the character conflicts and misadventures!

3. What’s your favorite comics work by Gerry Conway?

Agreed on some of his JLA stuff — particularly the Fiend with Five Faces two-parter from, I believe Justice League of America #150something. And right after that, he did a JLA-JSA team-up that all Ralph Dibny fans should own and treasure, in which Ralph faces down his self-doubt (questioning why he's hanging out with a team full of gods) as they fight against the Lord of Time, who's secretly on the heroes' side.

I was also a fan of the '80s Atari Force. He wrote that, didn't he?

4. Which is awesomer?

Krypto!

5. Who’s your favorite character from Ernie Pook’s Comeek?

Well you've gotta love Marlys. She's our point-of-view for all the insanity, after all. But I also have a soft spot for her younger brother (Freddie?), who endures the anti-queer taunts of his schoolmates to find the beauty in everything from insects to snowflakes.

6. What’s your favorite licensed book from Marvel?

Shogun Warriors. (Though they never got the love that Micronauts did.)

14. Who would you like to see draw a story for Sandman: Endless Nights Two. (Which I just made up.)

JHW3 or Jae Lee.

15. Challenge: We’ve had holographic covers, die-cut covers, color form covers. Invent a cool cover gimmick that hasn’t been used yet?

Yeah, pop-up covers were my first thought too.

17. What long run of comics should be collected in an omnibus, ala Locas or Morison’s New X-men?

Easy: Morrison's Doom Patrol. Next up: Chadwick's Concrete.

19. In tribute to Jog: What’s your least favorite work by Alan Moore?

Actually, Lost Girls was overhyped. In reality, it's premise is far more interesting that its overly repetitive execution.

20. Which two Marvel/DC/Image characters that have never been featured together should be teamed-up in a single book, ala Superman/Batman or Power-Man and Iron Fist?

Human Torch & Iceman? Spider-Man & Green Arrow (Connor)? Wonder Woman & Black Canary? Dr. Midnight & Black Canary? Oracle & Lord Fanny [whoa, worlds collide!]? Martian Manhunter & Vixen?

or -- I'm stretching the rules here, but so what? -- SPOILER! ...

... in memory of the newly departed Buddy Baker, how bout an Animal Man-Vixen book? (Morrison wrote a nice three-parter back in the pages of AM where Vixen guest-starred.)

1. The Cute-Memoir genre, consisting of folks like James Kolchalka and Gabrielle Bell and Jeffery Brown when he’s not being all emo or all INSANE like that last issue of Mome needs a name. What should we call the un-tragic, fun comics memoirs?

I think you came up with the name right there.

4. Which is awesomer: Frank Quietly’s awesome Krypto or Jae Lee’s awesome AWESOME Lockjaw?

I'll say Lockjaw, but I think you influenced me with your extra "awesome". I do like the way Quitely draws Krypto though.

7. Which BIG villain should be stuck on the New Thunderbolts?

Mole Man!

8. Who’s your favorite Archie supporting character, outside of the core group of Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica and Reggie?

Hmmmmm...I guess I'll say Dilton.

9. Just read Batman: Year 100, which was indeed dag cool. What other fictional character do you wanna see Paul Pope draw.

That's a good question. Maybe James Bond.

10. Which musical act that has NEVER had their own comic SHOULD have their own comic? (P.S. I really want to write Nine Rings of the Wu-Tang. And also: Britney Spears: Magic Galactic Defense Princess

The White Stripes. Check this out: http://www.comicscommunity.com/boards/allred/?read=14662

12. What’s your favorite Pirate or Pirate related comic?

Polly and the Pirates! Although Pirates of Coney Island is pretty cool (so far).

14. Who would you like to see draw a story for Sandman: Endless Nights Two. (Which I just made up.)

A lot of good choices have been mentioned already. I guess I could add the aforementioned Paul Pope (either on Delerium, Destruction, or Death). JH Williams is a great choice. So are Jae Lee (Dream?), Brian Bolland, Ashley Wood (Destruction?), and Ben Templesmith (Delirium? Despair?). Yoshitaka Amano would be cool. Maybe Eduardo Risso. Tony Harris?

15. Challenge: We’ve had holographic covers, die-cut covers, color form covers. Invent a cool cover gimmick that hasn’t been used yet?

Pop-up covers have been done at least once (Sergio Aragones' The Mighty Magnor #1). And scratch-and-sniff covers have probably been done too. I'll go with Mike Sterling's idea of toilet paper covers for Lady Death.

16. Would anyone out here but me buy The Golden Age Alfred archives?

Not me.

17. What long run of comics should be collected in an omnibus, ala Locas or Morison’s New X-men?

X-Force/X-Statix.

19. In tribute to Jog: What’s your least favorite work by Alan Moore?

I haven't read any of his Image stuff, so I'll say the First American stuff from Tomorrow Stories.

Whoops, that didn't work right. Sorry everybody; hope it's readable.

4. Which is awesomer: Frank Quietly’s awesome Krypto or Jae Lee’s awesome AWESOME Lockjaw?

Have to go with Lockjaw.

6. What’s your favorite licensed book from Marvel? Come on, Strawberry Shortcake fans. Let’s here from you!

TransFormers was the first book I bought every two months (as it came out here).

7. Which BIG villain should be stuck on the New Thunderbolts?

None. It worked better with the smaller, less genocidal villains.

12. What’s your favorite Pirate or Pirate related comic?

Watchmen.

14. Who would you like to see draw a story for Sandman: Endless Nights Two. (Which I just made up.)

Jae Lee--imagine his new, realistic style combined with dream images.

15. Challenge: We’ve had holographic covers, die-cut covers, color form covers. Invent a cool cover gimmick that hasn’t been used yet?

5D covers! The cover that you won't see until the future! (Cheap to produce, too.)

19. In tribute to Jog: What’s your least favorite work by Alan Moore?

I don't know if it's my least favorite, but: The Ballad of Halo Jones, because it just kinda ended and left me expecting something more.

20. Which two Marvel/DC/Image characters that have never been featured together should be teamed-up in a single book, ala Superman/Batman or Power-Man and Iron Fist?

Since the Winter Soldier oneshot, I've been dying for a Winter Soldier/Hawkeye II (Hawkingbird, whatever) book. Their dynamic seemed like it could rival the classic Cap/Hawkeye I rivalry. Only even better, because Ed Brubaker could write it.

4) Jae Lee's Lockjaw.

6) 2001: A Space Odyessy. I haven't read it, but damn do I want to - especially as they kept it going beyond the film adapation... that's just beautiful.
Why didn't they keep doing Bladerunner comics though?

7) Batroc The Leaper.

9) Gen 13 (if he was allowed to reimagine it).

10) Gorillaz would be an obvious choice.
The Eels 2nd album had some great strips in it by indie guys such as Adrian Tomine, and E's life story would make a cool comic (his rather distant father helping invent/define the paralell universe theory and corresponding with Einstein, seeing a plane crash near his neighbourhood as a child, his sister's suicide, his cousin being a stewardess on one of the planes that crashed on sept. 11... it would be a laugh a panel affair).

12) Probably the one in Watchmen.
Or, for so bad it's good, Iron Head, from Tales Of The Zombie #1 - it was possibly the worst one-off short story I'd ever read. Until I got to #2 of TotZ, and read the story about the girl getting buried alive (that story made no sense what so ever).
Re-read your Essentials and tell me I'm wrong.

14) Gieger, Paul Pope, Greg Land, Ashley Wood.

15) Hmmm, after Force Works #1, I can't think of anything that could be worse/hilarious than the fold out cover.

18) Platnium Grit.
Although, I did have more issues of Pizza Man when young.
However, I brought them again at a con the other year, and they didn't hold up.

19) Either Wildcats, or Spawn: Blood Feud..
(I remember liking Spawn: Blood Feud at the time, but I also liked Evil Ernie at the time, so it's probably not good).

1. My Pleasent Life Comics? If the opposite would be My Crappy Life Comics? I think cute memoir worked just fine, really.

2. Your MOME! Or, in lieu of that, I'm a philistine and don't read MOME or any art comics anthlogies, so I got nothin'.

3. I read the last part of a JLA/JSA team up he did that was fun. I also liked the one Batman comic of his that I've read.

4. I recuse myself, because I haven't seen Lee's rendering of Lockjaw, and a quick Google search didn't help.

5. What now? Did you make that up?

6. Alf. Because GI Joe would be too damn easy.

7. Mordo or Loki. Ellis could have a ball with either of them. Or Fin Fang Foom. Because it worked before.

8. There are other characters?

9. Trick question; Paul Pope should draw all fictional characters. Narrowing it down a bit, I'd say Daredevil. Or Hellboy. Or Dr. Strange. Stupid trick questions!

10. Did they ever do a Tupac comic? About his post-death advetures? I'd buy that if not.

11. I missed this. I adore Blue Monday, but haven't read any CCM in awhile. By the way, did you get her Teen Titans Go! fill-in?

12. Tales of the Black Freighter. The comic-within-a comic in Watchmen.

13. Did you get the 52 he was in? When he was in the lame new JLA? That was... not as bad as I thought it would be, but not very good either. Which is my general impression of 52.

14. JH Williams III

15. The edible cover! Made out of fruit roll up! Think of the potential! And how unsanitary it would be!

16. Yes. Someone has to be buying all of them.

17. Cerebus. I'd like to see how much that would cost.

18. Yeah, the mini-comic phenomenon doesn't really exist down here.

19. His two issue run on Vigilante.

20. Lockjaw and Blink Teleportation Bonanza! It could be like a travel show, but with a giant dog and a hot purple chick!

1. “Sunshine comics”?

2. Andrice Arp

3. Firestorm

4. Krypto over Lockjaw + Quietly over Lee = Quietly’s Krypto

5. Unfortunately, I have not yet read much of Lynda Barry’s work.

6. ROM, Shogun Warriors, Godzilla, G.I. Joe, Star Wars, NFL Superpro … great comics all, but I gotta give it to . . . Team America!

7. Galactus

8. I haven’t read an Archie comic in about 30 years, so I don’t remember any of the other characters, except Moose and that teacher. And the gym coach. And Veronica’s dad. Guess I’ll say Veronica’s dad. He’s got style.

9. I think he’d draw a neat Iron Man.

10. The New York Philharmonic. There’s a couple of hundred members; it could be like the Legion of Super-Heroes. If you really wanted to make money, though, you’d get Frank Cho or Terry Dodson to draw a Pussycat Dolls comic.

11. Haven’t read it.

12. A few months ago I read a short story about a little girl pirate. I don’t remember the name of it or where I even saw it (maybe in one of the Flight anthologies?), but it was hilarious!

13. I vaguely remember that DC Comics Presents; I think he was not nearly as jokey as he then immediately became.

14. Jason, Becky Cloonan

15. It plays music when you open it.

16. No, but I might buy a cheap Showcase collection of them!

17. Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing, Miller’s Daredevil, Nexus

18. Everytime I look at and pick up some mini-comics at my local store or at the MOCCA Festival, they tend to, well, suck. I’m looking for suggestions for some good ones.

19. I didn’t like Cobweb and First American, or A Small Killing. I never read his Spawn books, but I bet I wouldn’t like them either.

20. Batman/Wolverine has always seemed like a natural to me, but I’d pay money for Captain Carrot and Spider-Ham.

I can't believe I didn't answer this!

20. Obsidian and Northstar! The hook for this story is the obvious one, but look at the two characters: they're almost perfectly designed to hate each other's guts. American/Canadian, anglophone/francophone, poor/rich, light/dark... And they've both been portrayed as hard to get along with in the first place anyway. I think it could make a great story.

1. Happy slice-of-life. Or cute memoir, 'cause that sounds fine to me.

6. ROM, naturally. And SuperPro.

7. MODOK.

8. Dilton.

9. He's already done OMAC, so I can die happy.

10. I want to write a comic where Neil Diamond is a crimefighter and has to battle the evil alternate reality versions of Simon & Garfunkel... that is, Neil Simian, evil gorilla, and Argh Deathfunkel, cyborg of doom.

12. Scurvy Dogs, dude.

13. There's an Ambush Bug website out there which lists every appearance down to the barest cameo.

14. Jack Kirby and JH Williams III. One of these is feasible.

15. BOUND IN HUMAN FLESH AND INKED IN HUMAN BLOOD-- THE NECRONOMICOMICON EX MORTIS

16. I dunno. I'm waiting for Showcase Red Bee, myself.

17. They're coming out with Kirby's Fourth World, so I'm happy. Unless they want to do a Kamandi one.

18. Trust me. I don't have any local creators.

19. I haven't read any of his Image stuff, so it's probably one of those little things he did for DC back when. I wasn't a big fan of his Superman work. It's good but it's Moore, so it should be better.

20. Man-Wolf and Werewolf by Night: Private Eyes!

1. I'm down with the originally stated "cute-memoir genre" or CBrown's "Sunshine comics".

6. Gotta go w/ Hama's Joe. Barely nudges out Mantlo's Rom, though.

7. After what Simone did with the Hatter in Secret Six, I'm open to whatever.

10. Poe's Haunted/Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves

11. Trite as it is, have to go with Watchmen here.

16. Ooh me.

17. Ostrander's Suicide Squad.

19. A Small Killing left me cold. I saw the "reveal" coming a mile away.

20. NVE's Hawkingbird (whatever)/Winter Soldier by Brubaker is phenomenal idea. I've been fixated on it since I read his post. The Winter Soldier one-shot was excellent.

1. Pleasantries.

2.

3. Marvel Spotlight #2, introducing Werewolf by Night!

4. Lee.

5.

6. GI Joe.

7. Judging by Robbie Baldwin's new suit, Magneto.

8. Dilly.

9. Captain Planet.

10. Yanni.

11.

12. Scurvy Dogs.

13. Only your sanity.

14. Dean Trippe.

15. Lite-Brite.

16. I would.

17. Chuck Dixon's Robin.

18. Do webcomics count? If so, Girls with Slingshots by Danielle Corsetto.
http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/gws.html

19. Must be from his time as a scripter for Image. Youngblood, probably.

20. Woodgod and Bushwacker.

3. What’s your favorite comics work by Gerry Conway, not counting the Death of Gwen Stacy?

- Believe it or not, I actually liked his old Firestorm run from the early-mid 80's.

6. What’s your favorite licensed book from Marvel? Come on, Strawberry Shortcake fans. Let’s here from you!

- Gotta go with GI Joe. Yo Joe!!!

7. Which BIG villain should be stuck on the New Thunderbolts?

- Hobgoblin, just so it can corner the 'Goblin' market in the Marvel U.

9. Just read Batman: Year 100, which was indeed dag cool. What other fictional character do you wanna see Paul Pope draw.

- Strawberry Shortcake.

10. Which musical act that has NEVER had their own comic SHOULD have their own comic? (P.S. I really want to write Nine Rings of the Wu-Tang. And also: Britney Spears: Magic Galactic Defense Princess

- TaTu, by Terry Moore. Just kind of writes itself...

11. Before we begin: Nobody loves Chynna Clugston Major more than me. But did Queen Bee… um… kind of suck? Or am I just not the target audience?

- Must have missed Queen Bee. I'm too busy waiting on more Blue Monday or a second issue of Strangetown...any day now...

12. What’s your favorite Pirate or Pirate related comic?

- Antarctic's Pirates Vs. Ninjas is cool. I also liked the Pirate comic that ran in the back of Watchmen.

13. So I’ve got a full collection of Ambush Bug appearances except for his first appearance in DC Comics Presents and his guest spot in Supergirl. Am I missing anything?

- Favorite usage of Ambush Bug- DC's 1990 Who's Who series. (You know, the one in those binders). He appeared on the very last page of the last issue, having dressed up as everybody else for their 'poses' in all the previous character profiles. Nicely done...

14. Who would you like to see draw a story for Sandman: Endless Nights Two. (Which I just made up.)

- Travis Charest on Death. Tetsuo Hara on Destruction. Adam Hughes on Desire. Joshua Middleton on Delirium. Tim Bradstreet on Destiny. Simon Bisley on Despair. Aaaand John Totleben on Morpheus.

15. Challenge: We’ve had holographic covers, die-cut covers, color form covers. Invent a cool cover gimmick that hasn’t been used yet?

- Mood-sensitive color changing covers. Green for when you're happy, yellow for confused, blue for sad, and red for when you yell at yourself for blowing $4 on another crappy issue of House of Infinite Civil Identity World Crisis Wars...

16. Would anyone out here but me buy The Golden Age Alfred archives?

- Only if there's lots of panels of Alfred ducking while Batman throws one thug into more thugs.

17. What long run of comics should be collected in an omnibus, ala Locas or Morison’s New X-men?

- Moore's Swamp Thing, Scott McCloud's Zot, Morrison's Animal Man, Ostrander's Suicide Squad, O'Neil's The Question, and Collins & Beatty's Ms. Tree. Miracleman would be nice too...

19. In tribute to Jog: What’s your least favorite work by Alan Moore?

- Probably Tom Strong. It wasn't bad, I could just never get into it. I liked his other ABC books though.

20. Which two Marvel/DC/Image characters that have never been featured together should be teamed-up in a single book, ala Superman/Batman or Power-Man and Iron Fist?

- Woodgod Loves Mary Jane.

4. Lockjaw! "Toy! Oh, toy! Toy toy toy!" Lockjaw is easily the most memorable part of the Jenkins/Lee Inhumans for me.

I didn't answer #6 originally, because I couldn't think of any licensed Marvel comics that I had actually read, but Funky reminded me of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Hell, yeah! Jack Kirby, baby! There's some crazy shit in that series, and it has the first appearance of Machine Man!

Oh, and Andrew, good calls on the lineup for Endless Nights 2!

Hear hear on Andrew's Endless Nights 2 suggestions. I would certainly buy a book by that line-up, and I'm not the biggest Gaiman/Sandman fan. Thanks for putting so much thought into it, and for sharing said thoughts.

1. The Cute-Memoir genre, consisting of folks like James Kolchalka and Gabrielle Bell and Jeffery Brown when he’s not being all emo or all INSANE like that last issue of Mome needs a name. What should we call the un-tragic, fun comics memoirs?

Comics?

4. Which is awesomer: Frank Quietly’s awesome Krypto or Jae Lee’s awesome AWESOME Lockjaw?

Krypto.

7. Which BIG villain should be stuck on the New Thunderbolts?

Fattie Kingpin.

8. Who’s your favorite Archie supporting character, outside of the core group of Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica and Reggie?

Punisher.

9. Just read Batman: Year 100, which was indeed dag cool. What other fictional character do you wanna see Paul Pope draw?

The Hulk.

10. Which musical act that has NEVER had their own comic SHOULD have their own comic? (P.S. I really want to write Nine Rings of the Wu-Tang. And also: Britney Spears: Magic Galactic Defense Princess

WALK. http://www.myspace.com/theWALKspace

11. Before we begin: Nobody loves Chynna Clugston Major more than me. But did Queen Bee… um… kind of suck? Or am I just not the target audience?

I can't get past the fact that her art looks like the kind of stuff you see drawn on lined paper, stuck in the front slip of a 13 year-old girl's binder.

12. What’s your favorite Pirate or Pirate related comic?

I am a ninja. I have only hate for pirates.

13. So I’ve got a full collection of Ambush Bug appearances except for his first appearance in DC Comics Presents and his guest spot in Supergirl. Am I missing anything?

Good company?

14. Who would you like to see draw a story for Sandman: Endless Nights Two. (Which I just made up.)

Bill Sienkiewicz

15. Challenge: We’ve had holographic covers, die-cut covers, color form covers. Invent a cool cover gimmick that hasn’t been used yet?

Pheromone-laced covers.

16. Would anyone out here but me buy The Golden Age Alfred archives?

Nope.

17. What long run of comics should be collected in an omnibus, ala Locas or Morison’s New X-men?

Seven Soldiers.

19. In tribute to Jog: What’s your least favorite work by Alan Moore?

That love letter he wrote me. I could hardly read through all the tears.

20. Which two Marvel/DC/Image characters that have never been featured together should be teamed-up in a single book, ala Superman/Batman or Power-Man and Iron Fist?

Ant-Man/Stilt-Man

3. What’s your favorite comics work by Gerry Conway, not counting the Death of Gwen Stacy?

No contest. Justice League of America #200.

4. Which is awesomer: Frank Quietly’s awesome Krypto or Jae Lee’s awesome AWESOME Lockjaw?

I'll go with Quitley's Krypto here.

6. What’s your favorite licensed book from Marvel? Come on, Strawberry Shortcake fans. Let’s here from you!

Hmm. Their Star Trek, A-Team and Doc Savage books were all pretty lame. Never read G.I. Joe or Rom, Spaceknight. Conan would probably be their top licensed book, but the Archie Goodwin/Al Williamson Star Wars adaptations were excellently done.

7. Which BIG villain should be stuck on the New Thunderbolts?

Oh... Galactus. He's pretty huge.

8. Who’s your favorite Archie supporting character, outside of the core group of Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica and Reggie?

I'll say Moose.

9. Just read Batman: Year 100, which was indeed dag cool. What other fictional character do you wanna see Paul Pope draw.

Ehh, none of 'em. Pope's work isn't to my taste.

10. Which musical act that has NEVER had their own comic SHOULD have their own comic? (P.S. I really want to write Nine Rings of the Wu-Tang. And also: Britney Spears: Magic Galactic Defense Princess

The Traveling Wilburys, but only if they all combine into a giant, crime-fighting robot.

12. What’s your favorite Pirate or Pirate related comic?

Tales of the Black Frieghter in Watchmen, of course. Also loved the Black Pirate in the Starman series.

13. So I’ve got a full collection of Ambush Bug appearances except for his first appearance in DC Comics Presents and his guest spot in Supergirl. Am I missing anything?

Yes. His first appearance in DC Comics Presents and his guest spot in Supergirl. >;)

14. Who would you like to see draw a story for Sandman: Endless Nights Two. (Which I just made up.)

Someone who's never drawn a Sandman story before.

16. Would anyone out here but me buy The Golden Age Alfred archives?

I'd think that pretty much all of Alfred's appearances would be contained in the various Batman archives.

17. What long run of comics should be collected in an omnibus, ala Locas or Morison’s New X-men?

The Mark Evanier-Dan Speigle run on Blackhawk. The Batman work of Don Newton. The Mike W. Barr-Alan Davis run on Detective Comics. The Roy Thomas-Jerry Ordway issues of All-Star Squadron. The Nemesis backups from Brave & the Bold. The Steve Englehart-Dick Dillin JLA. Kirby's Kamandi & Demon.

At Marvel, the Roger Stern Spider-Man and Master of Kung Fu.

19. In tribute to Jog: What’s your least favorite work by Alan Moore?

Probably Cobweb in Tomorrow Stories. Melinda Gebbie can't draw.

20. Which two Marvel/DC/Image characters that have never been featured together should be teamed-up in a single book, ala Superman/Batman or Power-Man and Iron Fist?

Great question!

Oh, crap. I forgot to answer #20.

How about Wonder Man & The Beast? They've only had a mini series together.

3 Some of the JLA with Perez is good, especially 200, and DD/Black Widow's nice, but that's largely due to Colan... so how about, because it's so crazy, the end to the Warlock = Jesus story. With the Hulk at the Last Supper. Only in the 70s, only at Marvel.

4 Whenever a possible answer = white dog in red cape, that IS the answer.

6 The long-forgotten Planet of the Apes series. The licence holders paid no attention at all, and what emerged was some of the most inventive and disturbing SF ever to appear in comics.

7 The Yellow Claw.

10 Mark E Smith, Drunken Ghost Hunter-ah.

12 Fantastic Four #5. The Thing is Blackbeard. Lovely, lovely stuff from Stan and Jack.

14 Sergio Aragones

16 You bet!

17 Master of Kung Fu, from start to last.

19 The Birth Caul.

20 Ambush Bug and the Krypto animated series version of Ace the Bat-Hound.

1. "The Cute-Memoir" works for me

2. Speaking of which, who’s your favorite MOME artist?

3. The JLA/JSA/New Gods crossover.

4. Krypto

5. Who’s your favorite character from Ernie Pook’s Comeek?

6. Shogun Warriors

7. Casandra Nova

8. Moose

9. Spider-Man

10. Morrisey
11. Before we begin: Nobody loves Chynna Clugston Major more than me. But did Queen Bee… um… kind of suck? Or am I just not the target audience?

12. Watchmen

13. 52? A cameo in the Justice Leagues event from a few years ago?

14. Bill Waterson

15. Fruit-Roll-Up covers

16. Yes.

17. Giffen/DeMatteis JLI

18. What’s your favorite self-published or micro-independent comic by a local creator?

19. Killing Joke

20. Captain Marvel/Plastic Man

20. Black Lightning and Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter! Heroes available to be employed, or something...

3. Many of the first comics I read as a kid were written by Conway so my perspective is likely a little skewed, as I still like alot of his work upon rereading it. Firestorm pretty much ranks as my favorite of his work but the Killer Croc story in Detective was pretty enjoyable too.

4. Krypto

6. Transformers (though Crystar was pretty dang cool)

7. Dr. Bong (Don't tell me he's not big, he is in my world, dangit!)

10. The Spice Girls

12. One Piece

14. Frazer Irving

15. Scratch and Sniff? (I keep thinking that there's been one of those before though...)

19. Violator

20. Krypto/Detective Chimp