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

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

- 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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

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).

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.