Well, the stream of responses seems to be trailing off, so I thought now would be the time to reveal the winners in our ’name current comic creators the way Stan Lee would’ game. No, we never got a catchy title for that. I’ve settled on one or two nicknames per creator, and have taken entries not just from the Comments here, but from Millarworld, I, Fanboy, the CBR Forums and Twitter also. I will try, and please remind me, to use these nicknames when referring to said creators in future.

RICH ’THE BITCH’ JOHNSTON made several suggestions, my favourite being JUDD ’THE STUD’ WINICK. Widely welcomed were ACTION MATT FRACTION (Seb Patrick, although I also liked the various versions of ’mathematical fraction’) and GARTH ’THE MENACE’ ENNIS (Mr. Farrell). I like LEONARD ’TIBERIUS’ KIRK (Govikes), but it’s not the way Stan would have done it. FRIENDLY FRED VAN LENTE (Neal) is, though, as is TREMENDOUS BRIAN BENDIS (Narciso Lobo Jr.) and JOSS ’THE BOSS’ WHEDON (Desktop Hippie and NotDan). The Irredeemable Shag (sic) had a couple of good ones: GENIUS GEOFF JOHNS and TOM ’DA BOMB’ DeFALCO. Beadle had a whole run of interesting stuff, including GREG ’POWER’ PAK (although I liked The Next Champion’s suggestion of ’Jet’), WORRYING WARREN ELLIS and ANDY ’LUNAR’ LANNING (which is nearly my favourite). DAN ’JACKPOT’ SLOTT (Darin) had that nice level of meaning that Stan went for, and Darin’s also responsible for MAGNIFICENT MARK MILLAR and GAIL ’NEVER FAIL’ SIMONE. Caddyman suggested TENACIOUS TONY LEE and Dewline went for GREGARIOUS GREG RUCKA (although I did like Rob Absten’s suggestion of ’mother’ between his names). BIG BAD BILL WILLINGHAM is the suggestion of BlueTyson. DavidAlexanderM coined ERIC ’RAINBOW’ TRAUTMANN and ForbinP went for ALAN ’LESS IS NOT’ MOORE. CharlesSkaggs said EDGY ED BRUBAKER and LUMINOUS LEONARD KIRK (which is what I’ll call him, rather than Tiberius.) PUGNACIOUS PETER DAVID is the unlikely creation of Drakedangerz, SASSY PETER TOMASI says Paul Montgomery. Steve Sensible gave us JONATHAN ’PHENOMENON’ HICKMAN. Brian Knippenberg gave us JOCULAR JEPH LOEB, and Mark went for KEITH ’I GET NO KICK FROM’ CHAMPAGNE. Ron, and several others, called it for JOE ’BIG SHOW’ QUESADA.

GENIAL JAMES MORAN wrote in asking to be given such a nickname. MARVELLOUS MARK BROOKS suggested LENIL ’A BETTER ARTIST THAN’ YU (although I did like ’No Soup For’, whoever sent that in) and TITANIC TOM BREVOORT had some (surprisingly printable, but spare my blushes) suggestions about what to call me. Myself, I’d add NAUGHTY NICK LOWE and (entirely because of his speech habits) ****ING FRANK TIERI to the list.

But the undisputed winner is NEIL ’SHAMAN’ GAIMAN (Steve Green got it before ForbinP). Enjoy your Unofficial Knock Off No Prize, True Believer! Phew, that was fun. I wonder if any of them will stick? Thanks everyone who took part, and sorry if I cut your entry from the Comments because of borderline uncertainty about whether you meant, say, ’abominable’ in a nice way or not. Cheerio!