Jonathan Hickman’s The Nightly News was an amazing work of social commentary. If you haven’t read it,  I don’t know how I can recommend it strongly enough. The artwork was quirky, the writing strong, and the message behind it was poignant.

Oh, and it was entertaining to read. Which, y’know, is paramount. Go forth and find the trade.

He currently has two projects in the works, Pax Romana and A Red Mass for Mars — both of which have to deal with building societies. Newsarama has an interview with Hickman up on their site, and he talks about the two upcomers, as well as some projects that he’s doing with Marvel, and other things on his horizon.

It’s funny, when The Nightly News came out, I got some offers to do some other books, and they were all pretty much Nightly News-derivative. You know, “Would you like to do this book of social commentary?” And that made me really happy that I was doing these other books, because then I wouldn’t get pigeonholed as the “angry social commentary bullshit guy.” I want to tell all kinds of stories, and it’s amazing to have this opportunity to tell them.