As you have probably noticed, I stump pretty hard for Way of the Rat as I consider it CrossGen’s best book. However, many of my friends swear by Brath as the book they couldn’t live without. I have been waiting for the collected editions with this one, but my friends can’t all be wrong…and this…

Jeff Johnson leaves Way of the Rat Jeff Johnson, whose thrilling martial arts battles and glorious wide shot spreads on Way of the Rat has made it one of the company’s real hits, has left CrossGen. He will be penciller on Marvel’s Weapon X. This is the first truly unsettling news I’ve heard from CrossGen…

Independent comics for January.

I was looking over the CrossGen’s January releases and I have to again NEVER MIND – THIS LINK IS DEAD –restate my case that CrossGen is undergoing a period of strong self-improvement. Most of the vague-titled books that I don’t read are gone, and what’s left is a lean fighting line-up of some truly great…

Writer/artist Phil Foglio has been a fave of mine since his funny (and sexy) Angel and the Ape comic 15 years ago. He has written to me personally and he is a genuinely nice guy. These days he pours his energy into his own self-published ventures like Girl Genius. The latest issue, #10, has just…

The Top Shelf site has been redesigned.

George Perez has confirmed that he is still with CrossGen. It’s great to see that he is standing by the company…although it’s not that hard to stand by a company that is paying you cash and benefits and not requiring you to do any work. I don’t mean to be snide here, folks; that’s what…

Augie’s new article on CBR, CrossGen is dead; long live CrossGen, is one of the best assessments of CrossGen, pro and con, that I’ve seen in a while. It nails a stake through a lot of Internet sniping while raising serious criticisms of its own…and praising the company where that praise is deserved. Augie has…

ICv2 News – CrossGen Restructures I appreciate ICv2’s fair and business-like news reporting. It’s truly a rarity in comic book news, where spin, rumor and colorful statements abound. While some say “the knives are out for CrossGen”, it truly is news when a publisher that prided itself on on-time printing, a unique studio system and…

Congratulations to Chuck Dixon, Steve Epting and Frank D’Armeta! El Cazador #1 is sold out, despite being overprinted and in addition to the 25% extra copies that retailers got (when they hit their incentive level)! That’s astounding, and proof that an audience exists for straightforward genre comics devoid of superheroes and sigil-bearers. Now, is that…