We were the best thing. Do you hear me? THE BEST THING.

People may already know all about Thrillbent, but since nobody's mentioned its origin, I thought I'd be Exposition Guy for a few minutes. I try not to care about pedigree, but Thrillbent ( www.thrillbent.com ) has a very reputable one. Seanan's "The Best Thing" is sitting at a creator's table with some great company.

Mark Waid co-created the site in 2012, originally as an entirely free website for digital comics. He is a big name in the industry. Among other things, he wrote "Kingdom Come," drawn by Alex Ross, for DC. Waid wrote "The Flash" for what seemed forever -- he made Wally West into an awesome successor to Barry Allen. And he won an Eisner Award, too.

So when Mark Waid said he was going to make digital comics work, people laughed at him all over the Internet. People would read the free content and never pay for anything that wasn't. That's what I did, I admit. I read for free, then walked away rather than pay a measly four dollars a month to support the creators. For shame.

Well, it's 2015, and Thrillbent is still here. You can read the first chapters of most stories for free. Waid has an ongoing stories of his own up there, too. For four dollars a month, you get access to _three years worth of back stories_, plus a PDF of Waid's graphic novel. I would say that Thrillbent's approach is like Britain's 2000 A.D. ongoing anthology, but I haven't read that in years. Some of Thrillbent's titles are now coming out in print, too (IDW).

I hadn't read Thrillbent in a while. So I've missed out on a lot of good stories. So far I've tried the series Insufferable, The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood, The Eighth Seal, Luther (short story), and (obviously) The Best Thing. I like horror, but there are all sorts of stuff on there. Anybody else want to recommend a story there, and tell us why? (But please, please avoid spoilers.)

Mack