Ripped from the headlines in 1986…

I actually (if vaguely) remember seeing this around, back then. It didn’t seem like a good idea at the time, either.

For those who missed it: As noted in this post from the Guardian, a small treasure trove of 15 unpublished stories by Dashiell Hammett turned up recently, and are slated for publication in the near future.
Hammett’s the man who dragged serious American crime writing out of the pulps way back in the 1920s and ‘30s, [...]

Way too busy with real work to post in January, so here’s the boiled-down version of what I would have said about the stories that had the comics blogosphere all atwitter, whipped out in a 15-minute typing frenzy. I’ll start the stopwatch…now.

1. Writer Jason Aaron kicked off 2011 by looking back in petulance at an [...]