If Only ...

Enough of today’s crime fictionists have ventured into the comics and graphic novel field, that author-blogger Patrick Shawn Bagley decided to ask a whole bunch of other writers which comic-book character they’d most like to pen stories for in the future. The responses are all over the map. Anthony Neil Smith wants to go after Sergeant Rock, Patti Abbott opts for “Lana Lang in her incarnation as Insect Girl,” while January Magazine contributing editor (and Rap Sheet contributor) Anthony Rainone longs to take on Iron Man. You’ll find all of the responses to Bagley’s question here.