I'm sure he can, but he doesn't like them and it shows.

For some reason I am unable to get the first issue of the new Goon series through Heavyink. I'm about ready to drop my service through them.

GOnna have to check eBay, I doubt it will be a big deal. Afterlife With Archie #4 is another Heavyink never mailed me, but I got it online for $4 anyway.

I tried DMZ but I couldn't suspend my disbelief enough to deal with it.  The premise is ludicrous.  I liked Northlanders.  But Wood is mostly miss.  And I've liked pretty much everything of Ennis' that I've read. 

I've found the premise extremely unlikely too, but not quite as unlikely as super powered alien baby shipped to Earth to report the news. And even though I thought the emphasis of importance on some things and total lack of mention of other things to be unrealistic, I felt like the reactions of the characters was genuine, nobody turned out to be too one dimensional, and the setting reminded me a lot of what we see in foreign conflict settings. So it was interesting. Manhattan as a bombed out Baghdad but with an American melting pot population.

And to give the premise credit, there's thousands of militia members, as well as doomsday preppers and armchair revolutionists (which include political leadership here and there) whoa actually think it's going to happen. So it's not completely pulled out of thin air.

Oh yeah, Conan! I have read a couple Dark Horse trades and loved them. I've heard it goes downhill, but haven't seen it yet. I'll keep reading them as they become available to me though, until I quit liking them.

I wouldn't say I'm a huge fan of Wood, but when pit against someone whose American work seems to revolve around titles like Ghost Rider and The Darkness, of course I'm not going to be familiar with the other guy.

Yeah, I don't doubt he has good work out there, but that was before his "introduction" to American comics, wasn't it? I'm just kind of going through his wiki. I've only gotten my hands on a few 2000ad issues, and I really liked them, but they're hard to find and a bit expensive to keep up with. Outside of that many of the great British Invasion comics writers I'm unfamiliar with. Even Alan Moore, who I had to make a conscious effort to read since so much of his work falls outside my area of interest. I'm not likely to try out much from the first years of Vertigo. I read a lot of newer Vertigo and really like it, and I know the earlier stuff is critically acclaimed, but it just doesn't seem to be my cup of tea, from what I have actually read.