http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com Comic Book Resources Presents... Comics Should Be Good! Thu, 15 May 2008 17:17:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mangablog has a page up from DC's Final Crisis sketchbook, featuring some designs of the new Japanese heroes Morrison and JG Jones are debuting in the series. Looks pretty darn fun!! http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/15/a-look-at-the-new-dc-japanese-heroes/ I could be tricky, but why mess with a good thing? Enjoy! X-O Manowar While there perhaps are better high concepts, the idea of a Visigoth barbarian getting stolen by aliens around the year 400 AD, only to escape custody wearing their most innovative piece of technology, the X-O Manowar suit of armor, ... http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/14/valiant-comic-book-alphabet-of-cool-x/ Okay, so I guess we'll do it for the Top 100 Runs, too! I have a couple already (and I have one for a run that I forgot to use, so I guess I'll post that one, too), but if your top pick did not make the Top 158 runs, please ... http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/14/everybodys-somebodys-baby-redux/ Comic legend Gene Colan has been having some health issues, and he is without health insurance, so Clifford Meth is helping out in the following way: Aardwolf Publishing will be publishing Meth, Colan & Other Theologians, the proceeds of which will go directly and immediately to Gene and Adrienne Colan. ... http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/14/help-gene-colan-out/ Here are the final six runs! Enjoy! 107 (tie). Mark Waid and Ron Garney’s first run on Captain America – 89 points Captain America #444-454 Followed up the rather disappointing end of Gruenwald's run with a bombastic flourish, as the title was suddenly filled with action and intrigue. The idea of returning Sharon Carter ... http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/14/top-158-comic-book-runs-107-103/ I'll admit, this is more of a symbolic one, sort of like J! Enjoy! Wipeout That's Wipeout on the bottom left. He was a rookie member of the group, H.A.R.D. Corps, which stood for Harbinger Active Resistance Division. It was a very high concept book, where a group of comatose people were given ... http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/13/valiant-comic-book-alphabet-of-cool-w/ Here's the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John's description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/13/john-seaveys-storytelling-engines-monster-of-frankenstein/ If people will buy a 16-page comics single for two dollars (i.e., Fell), would they buy an 8-page comics single (with backmatter, let's say) for one dollar? http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/13/im-genuinely-curious/ Welcome to the latest installment of your breath of snark free air! In honor of the finale of the Valiant Comic Book Alphabet of Cool this week, this is an All-Valiant edition! Enjoy! SNARK FREE DEBATE Which Turok was the best? The original Gold Key stories featuring Turok had the great Gaylord Du Bois and ... http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/12/snark-free-corner-for-512/ The character find of 1997! Enjoy! Vincent Van Goat Vincent was first introduced in the third issue of Quantum and Woody as a joke. Quantum and Woody are on a cross-national goose chase, and in their journey, they end up purchasing a goat for whatever reason. Woody, though, puts the goat to good ... http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/12/valiant-comic-book-alphabet-of-cool-v/ Here are the next ten runs! Enjoy! 116 (tie). J. Michael Straczynski’s Amazing Spider-Man – 76 points Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #30-58, Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 1) #500-545 JMS' run on Amazing Spider-Man helped to revitalize the Spider-Man line, turning what was a book in sales trouble into one of Marvel's highest-selling titles. He ... http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/12/top-158-comic-book-runs-118-109/ Check out some of the team-ups he says he has in the works for his run on Brave and the Bold: Batman and the Spectre, Lex Luthor and Swamp Thing, Deadman and Wonder Woman, Constantine and Eclipso, Superman and Sgt. Rock, Challengers of the Unknown and the Metal Men, ... http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/12/jms-knows-team-ups/ Here's a new routine we'll be doing here on the blog. Every month, around this time, we will all answer the same comic book related question. Feel free to send in suggestions for future questions to bcronin@comicbookresources.com! This month, we're using a question that Greg Hatcher suggested - "If you ... http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/12/comics-should-be-goods-question-of-the-month/ If we're talking Valiant and the letter U, there's really only one thing this could be. Unity Unity was one of the most ambitious crossovers in modern comics, and the fact that Jim Shooter actually plotted the entire thing was a huge factor in it turning out so well (DC did a ... http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/11/valiant-comic-book-alphabet-of-cool-u/ Another short-lived series that was perhaps released at precisely the wrong time ... but that doesn't mean it's not fantastic! As always with these posts, there are SPOILERS below! The Heckler by Kieth Giffen (plotter/penciller), Tom and Mary Bierbaum (scripters), Malcolm Jones III (inker, issues #1-3), Bob Lewis (inker, issues #4-5), ... http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/11/comics-you-should-own-the-heckler/ Today is Mother's Day, but I thought it'd be nice to take a look at the comic book non-mothers out there who probably deserve a card today as much as some mothers out there! Enjoy! 5. Emma Frost Perhaps not the greatest role model, but Emma certainly does take a maternal approach to ... http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/11/top-five-comic-book-non-moms-who-deserve-a-card-today/ Some fine folks sent me some scans of Conjura, who I featured in Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #153. Check them out here. http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/11/conjura-pictures/ Here is a title that I think best symbolizes Valiant's history. Enjoy! Doctor Tomorrow Doctor Tomorrow was the brainstorm of Bob Layton. It was a hero who, over the span of the 12 issue maxi-series, would evoke various periods in comic book history. Great high concept, right? Just like Valiant. Then, the top of the line ... http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/10/valiant-comic-book-alphabet-of-cool-t/ To Joe Kubert (writer/artist) and Will Dennis (editor) of Tor: That spiked-back crocodile thing  on pages 15-17? Definitely not a sauropod. To Bruce Jones (w), Al Barruinuevo (a) and Joey Cavaleri (e) of The War that Time Forgot Re: The large dinosaurs identified as "brontosaurus" on Page 12: (A) Apatosaurus was alive in the ... http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/10/dinosaur-related-nitpicks-of-this-weeks-dc-comics/ Here are the next ten runs! Enjoy! 126 (tie). Roger Stern’s Doctor Strange – 68 points Doctor Strange #46-62, 65-75 Actually, this is Stern's second run on the title, I think. Was the first time long enough for a run? Anyhow, this was a great series, particularly when Paul Smith was drawing it. ... http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/05/09/top-158-comic-book-runs-128-119/