I was well aware of the fact that the 10th of December was the 20th anniversary of Comics Should Be Good (I am a big fan of anniversaries), so it was cool that our Former Dread Lord and Master, Brian Cronin, remembered it too, and he asked me to do a quick chat with him … not about the anniversary, but about X-Men #8, which came out last week! Cronin is an inscrutable fellow, I’ll tell you that much! We had a fun time discussing some of the plot points of the issue and how they relate to X-history, and if you’re at all interested, go check it out! I will always appreciate Brian, as he brought me on board CSBG early on in its existence (I started in March of ’05), and it gave me a lot of opportunities to meet some cool people I wouldn’t have otherwise met, including Mr. Hatcher. It’s a bit of a goofy chat, but we had fun! Enjoy!
A quick link on an anniversary!
Author: Greg Burgas
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As we are mentioning “the old site” I thought I would mention the run-down of the “best comic runs” currently appearing.
So far 4 of my picks have appeared (may be another 5in the top 30?)
one interesting thing is the “old” new entries – the runs that appeared decades ago (and are very much worthy of iunclusion) but have not made the top 100 before
at 98 there’s the original Elfquest run (1978-1984) by Wendy And Richard Pini
I encountered this while at University (when I first had regular access to a comic shop – reading the Marvel/Epic versions)
at 90 there’s Alan Davis’s Captain Britain run – something that certainly caught my attention as I had just started reading “Marvel Superheroes” 4 issues earlier and I had grown up in Alan Davis’ home town (though I’ve only seen him at comic events elsewhere)
at 87 there is Judge Dredd by John Wagner – who is the definitive writer of the series (though there are a number of other writers on the series)
After an aborted excessive planned debut (which would have left to a swift ending if it had been printed) the series has established Dredd as a multifaceted character mixing Dredd as action hero and fascist bully, strips include spoofs of adverts, one written in the style of Edgar Allen Poe’s the Raven – there has been comedy, horror, detective stories, looks at future, satire of real world trends (I remember one looking at real world ant-terrorist laws)
interesting that 2 of the 3 had British creators (both of whom were at the event where I caught covid) .. maybe a significant increase in British voters on the site? (actually none of these were among my votes)
You’re jumping the gun, sir! 🙂 I am, I’ll have you know, currently working on my extremely long breakdown of the list, and I hope I will have it up within a few days of Brian actually finishing posting it. I did think the inclusion of those three comics was a bit odd – I’m not sure how to account for them!