Ok, now, who are your favorite writers of comics out there?

I really liked the early Vertigo stuff -- Neil Gaiman's Sandman and Garth Ennis on Hellblazer and Preacher. But two series that I don't think got as much attention as they deserved were Pete Milligan's Shade The Changing Man and Jamie Delano's Animal Man, which for my money, was even better than Grant Morrison's run, which is really saying something.

Milligan's X-Force/X-Statix was great while it lasted, but I knew nothing so strange and wonderful could last long at Marvel, as with Morrison's New X-Men, which for my money, is some of his strongest work.

I think Grant Morrison works best in short bursts -- he always starts out so strong and mind-blowing, but peters out at the end, like with Invisibles, The Filth, Doom Patrol, etc.

Warren Ellis is problematic for me. Sometimes I feel like the characterization isn't there, all of his characters, whether a 10-year-old girl or a 80-year-old Grandma, all talk like Spider-Jerusalem. Consequently, I tend to like his big action type books like The Authority or Planetary, or funny stuff like Next Wave.

The wave of Brit writers in American mainstream comics was just about the last great creative boost in comics, at least that I can think of.

Who are you guys into?