2011 November
The Greatest Bill Mantlo Stories Ever Told!
Every day in November we will reveal the greatest stories ever told starring a particular character or written/drawn by a particular creator (and throughout the month, you’ll get daily chances to vote for NEXT week’s lists). These lists are voted on by YOU, the reader! Here is the list of characters/creators featured so far (along [...]
Name That Creeper Artist!
All November-long, I will be sharing four panels featuring a comic book character. They will each be drawn by four separate pencilers. I will be featuring only pieces of art where the penciler did full pencils (as otherwise it would be way too difficult). Your challenge is to, simply put, name that artist! E-mail me [...]
Why I’m Thankful For Comics Should Be Good
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
- 24 Comments
Reader Travis Pelkie sent this in to me. -BC I’m Thankful for CSBG Because… It’s a great site about good comics, and that makes me happy. Brian updates the site daily with fun posts. It’s a great collection of writers on comics with varied interests that cover most things about comics that you’d want to [...]
What I bought – 23 November 2011
He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth – but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a part of the world, and not an enemy [...]
The Greatest Flash (Barry Allen) Stories Ever Told!
Every day in November we will reveal the greatest stories ever told starring a particular character or written/drawn by a particular creator (and throughout the month, you’ll get daily chances to vote for NEXT week’s lists). These lists are voted on by YOU, the reader! Here is the list of characters/creators featured so far (along [...]
Name That Booster Gold Artist!
All November-long, I will be sharing four panels featuring a comic book character. They will each be drawn by four separate pencilers. I will be featuring only pieces of art where the penciler did full pencils (as otherwise it would be way too difficult). Your challenge is to, simply put, name that artist! E-mail me [...]
The Greatest Garth Ennis Stories Ever Told! – Voting
Here’s the latest of the daily voting threads for The Greatest ____ Stories Ever Told! Our next creator up for voting is Garth Ennis. Garth Ennis has a strong track record of notable series for a number of different publishers. He has done Preacher, Hellblazer and Hitman for DC, Punisher and Punisher MAX for Marvel, [...]
The Line It Is Drawn #67 – Comic Book Characters and Literature Classics
Go follow Comics Should Be Good on Twitter (if you have Twitter, that is – if you don’t, you can go sign up). Here is our Twitter page… http://twitter.com/csbg. And here are the Comics Should Be Good writers who are on Twitter (the links go to the person’s Twitter account) – myself, Greg Hatcher, Chad [...]
Committed: Depression Fun
- by Sonia Harris
- in Committed
- 3 Comments
Today my friend Stephanie reminded me of this webcomic, linking to it in a discussion about the societal denial of emotional depression. It touched me so much, making me smile at something so bleak, that I had to share it.
The Greatest Greg Rucka Stories Ever Told!
Every day in November we will reveal the greatest stories ever told starring a particular character or written/drawn by a particular creator (and throughout the month, you’ll get daily chances to vote for NEXT week’s lists). These lists are voted on by YOU, the reader! Here is the list of characters/creators featured so far (along [...]
Name That Scarlet Witch Artist!
All November-long, I will be sharing four panels featuring a comic book character. They will each be drawn by four separate pencilers. I will be featuring only pieces of art where the penciler did full pencils (as otherwise it would be way too difficult). Your challenge is to, simply put, name that artist! E-mail me [...]
The Greatest Doctor Doom Stories Ever Told! – Voting
Here’s the latest of the daily voting threads for The Greatest ____ Stories Ever Told! Our next character up for voting is Doctor Doom. As much of a part of the Fantastic Four as the team itself, the villainous Doctor Doom showed up in the fifth issue of the series and has been a constant [...]
Review time! with The Many Adventures of Miranda Mercury: Time Runs Out
Sci-fi adventuring! Yay!
Comic Critics #181!
Here is the latest installment of the Comic Critics strip, courtesy of Sean Whitmore (writer) and Brandon Hanvey (artist)! You can check out the first hundred and eighty strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
The Line it is Drawn – Call to Artists!
Some sad and some exciting news, everyone! First, the sad – all three of our original The Line it is Drawn artists – Caanan Grall, Daniel Irizarri and George Zapata – are going to be moving on. George, as you may or may not know, is hard at work on the independent comic book series, [...]





