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Don’t end your Hulk comic (that’s based on a video game) with a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson.

I mean, honestly:

No matter what you think of Cerebus, its 300-issue run is certainly an achievement…though creator Dave Sim encouraged some small amount of consternation with his attitudes on gender relations (among other things), it’s hard to ignore his commitment to telling the life of his lead character for the last quarter of a century. Sim gives his goodbyes to his life’s project here. (His regards to Jeff Smith did strike me as a little odd…wasn’t Dave challenging Jeff to a fight at one point?)

Other good Cerebus links and info can be found at the Cerebus Fangirl site…one of my favorites is this one, providing early fan-produced radio show adaptations of the first six issues.

Former Swamp Thing artist and Taboo mastermind Steve Bissette moderates his own message board, and unlike most comic creator boards, it’s readable, enjoyable, and informative. Most of the discussion centers around Bissette’s passion for horror movies, but comics do get brought up once in a while as well.

I’ve been seeing references to it on various comic sites, but it took an e-mail from pal John to finally get me to take a look at it.

Doomworld…featuring artwork by Tom “Gallows” Grindberg. It is quite possibly the most brain-damaging comic you’ll ever read.

The first word balloon on page two is almost like poetry.

Supertalk: The Movie – superheroes (and their loved ones) call in to radio psychologist “Dr. Flora” for help with their special problems. Downloadable in Window Media Format and Quicktime here.

(thanks to JP)

This is a great site for scans of old crime comics…I hadn’t visited in a while, so imagine my surprise when I finally went to the site again and found a notice that all the comics on this site are going up on eBay!

Here’s another gallery, not quite as polished — it’s a tribute to the Silver Surfer, Green Lantern, and the Green Goblin! Aside from having colors in their names, I’m not sure what they all have in common, and this page hasn’t been updated in a couple years (having achieved perfection on August 13, 2001), but there are some neat things to be found in the nooks and crannies. (Warning…Tripod pop-ups on every page.)

Marie’s Cows is a site collecting all the cow drawings Marie Javins gathered during her Marvel Comics editing career.

However, my favorite comics gallery site is this one…comic artists drawing characters on cliffs. Or drawing things in jars. The whole darn site is fantastic.

Teen Boat!

I think it was pal Reid who originally brought this to my attention. Funny stuff.

My pal John is my hero.

Someone on the John Byrne Message Board replied to a post linking to Time Magazine’s best comics article by saying “I’ve never heard of any of these.”

Either this person shops at the worst comic shop in the world, or this person just hasn’t been paying attention to comics or the comics industry at all. How did someone with internet access somehow miss any references to the excellent Blankets over the past year? I swear every comics website on the planet mentioned it at least once. And, for Pete’s sake, even the most myopic superhero fans know about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen! And to not know about Palomar!?

I just don’t get it. It’s like the exact opposite of those comic fans who try to prove how hoity-toity they are by claiming they pay absolutely no attention to superhero comics. “What is this, how you say, ‘Super-Man’ you speak of?” Sigh.