Eisner Award-winning author Greg Rucka is know for his gritty noir-influenced style, his critically acclaimed runs on mainstream titles like The Punisher and Batwoman and for his proclivity to write multi-faceted, bad-ass female protagonists We recently sat down with Rucka as he ends a decade-long collaboration with Marvel and DC and throws himself full force into his creator owned projects, including Queen and Country and LAZARUS. Who or what were your influences as a writer? That’s not a short-answer question. There are honestly too many to count. I can go from Joyce Carol Oates to Raymond Chandler, Hemingway to Douglas Adams,...

Kurt Busiek's Astro City is a creator-owned comic book that started back in 1995, with Busiek providing writing, Brent Anderson on pencils and Alex Ross providing covers and character design. A critical and commercial success from the beginning, Astro City has been somewhat hampered bu an irregular publication schedule and it has struggled to find a long-time home with a publisher as the many of the smaller publishers have merged or been bought as the industry consolidated. After a recent health scare, Busiek announced that Astro City would be published by DC comics as an ongoing monthly title Badmouth managed to get Busiek to answer five questions about Astro City and working on a creator-owned comic.

SPACE GUYS IN SPACE follows the only survivors of the human race — two guys, Carl and Stew, stuck in a broken-down escape pod, with no engines and only basic life support, drifting listlessly through the galaxy.

SPACE GUYS IN SPACE follows the only survivors of the human race — two guys, Carl and Stew, stuck in a broken-down escape pod, with no engines and only basic life support, drifting listlessly through the galaxy.

For Asians -- and Asians alone -- a simple image search returns page after page of women with breasts the size of volleyballs doing things their mothers would not approve of. This obviously says something about how sexy Asians are (or far more likely, how horny American men are.) I wish I could give more commentary, but frankly, I'm not sure I can quite wrap my head around what this means, if anything. It appears that far more Americans than I would ever have thought have "Yellow Fever." The American sexualization of an entire continent is one of the more bizarre things I've ever come across on the Internet, and it is something I will try to keep in mind the next time I want to poke fun at the Japanese and their Used Schoolgirl Panties Vending Machines.

SPACE GUYS IN SPACE follows the only survivors of the human race — two guys, Carl and Stew, stuck in a broken-down escape pod, with no engines and only basic life support, drifting listlessly through the galaxy.

SPACE GUYS IN SPACE follows the only survivors of the human race — two guys, Carl and Stew, stuck in a broken-down escape pod, with no engines and only basic life support, drifting listlessly through the galaxy.

SPACE GUYS IN SPACE follows the only survivors of the human race — two guys, Carl and Stew, stuck in a broken-down escape pod, with no engines and only basic life support, drifting listlessly through the galaxy.

SPACE GUYS IN SPACE follows the only survivors of the human race — two guys, Carl and Stew, stuck in a broken-down escape pod, with no engines and only basic life support, drifting listlessly through the galaxy.

SPACE GUYS IN SPACE follows the only survivors of the human race — two guys, Carl and Stew, stuck in a broken-down escape pod, with no engines and only basic life support, drifting listlessly through the galaxy.

SPACE GUYS IN SPACE follows the only survivors of the human race — two guys, Carl and Stew, stuck in a broken-down escape pod, with no engines and only basic life support, drifting listlessly through the galaxy.