And the Suicide Squad characters just keep coming on the CW's new hit series Arrow. Not content with bringing Deadshot, China White, Deathstroke and other villains to the televisual masses in episodes of the show based on DC Comics' Green Arrow, now we can expect to see Count Vertigo.

I like Kickstarter a lot. It's an efficient way to directly connect with artists while also making sure a project that interests you gets funded. There are still a few hitches that need to be worked out, but my experience with Kickstarter has been largely positive. I've backed eleven projects across a variety of genres, and the results have been solid, for the most part. Over the coming weeks, I'm going to take a close look at some of them, examining the positive and negative aspects of each campaign. Today, I'm looking at Carbon Grey, the second volume of a miniseries that was one of my favorite art showcases of last year. Pretty pictures and measured judgments below the cut.

Back in October, we brought you the story of Colleen Lachowicz, a candidate for the Main State Senate who was attacked in flyers distributed by her state's Republican party because she's an avid World of Warcraft player. Now, the results of the election are in, and despite gamer status (and an attempt by Stephen Colbert to ward her off with Sting, an Orc-bane sword forged by the elves of Gondoin) Lachowicz and, one assumes, Santiaga the Orc Assassination Rogue have won their election.

And whats' more, not only did the campaign to discredit her with the knowledge that she spent untold hours backstabbing rivals in Azeroth fail to keep her from getting elected, it might've actually helped.

Now that it's all over - Well, bar Florida, which is still counting votes at time of writing in some strange quest to inspire a new generation of late-night television comedians to make jokes about how badly it handles elections - you might be wondering what the US Presidential Election was all about, anyway. Thankfully, the British newspaper The Guardian has created a comic to explain it all.

Unlike CA Senior Writer Chris Sims, who steadfastly scours the funny pages each month for his Funky Winkerbean/Crankshaft chronicle, Funkywatch (to say nothing of his inspiration, Josh Fruhlinger at the daily Comics Curmudgeon blog), there's a good chance you don't indulge in traditional comic strips as much as you'd like. Me? I mostly only dig into traditional funnies around the holidays to be sentimental and, uh, the 2012 Elections were totally a holiday, right? My dose of comic strip nostalgia used to take mere seconds, but since Cathy has been out of the game for two years now, this election I had to scan all of the usual suspects to see what style of humor they'd use to comment on democracy in America. Hit the jump to scan some of the most... election-y... comic strips from November 6.

As self-described obnoxiously huge fan of comics about badasses slaying pirates in fantasy realms replete with ghosts (I promise, I've described myself precisely that way at least twice), I was pretty stoked to see Dark Horse Comics would be kicking off a new ongoing Amala's Blade series by recollecting the initial AB shorts by Steve Horton and artist Michael Dialynas that ran in Dark Horse Presents earlier this year. Set for a February 27 release, Amala's Blade #0 will collect these DHP contents into one complete 24-page story, plus pack in a preview of Amala's continued adventures, which kick off in April. If you haven't sampled the story in DHP yet, now's a solid time to see why it scratches my itch for high adventure on the high seas with kinetic and vividly-colored art.

It seems odd that a new project from a major publisher by one of the unquestionable masters of the art form could be released without a whole lot of fanfare, but it seems like that's exactly what happened with The Judas Coin. A brand new hardcover graphic novel by Walter Simonson seems like the kind of thing that would have a huge push behind it, but while it might just be me not paying attention to solicits (a very likely scenario), I wasn't even aware it existed until a friend of mine was talking about it after it came out.

And that's a shame, because this is not a book you want to miss. The Judas Coin is one of the best comics DC put out this year, hands down.

On sale now from Marvel is Deadpool #1, reintroducing the ultra-violent, unkillable, occasionally fourth-wall-breaking and frequently hilarious "Merc with a Mouth" created by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza in the early 1990s. The new series comes courtesy of comedians and comics writers Gerry Duggan (The Infinite Horizon) and Brian Posehn (The Goon: Noir) and artist Tony Moore (Fear Agent, The Walking Dead), and is very near the top of the new Marvel NOW projects that I'm most eager to read. Moore's command of gore and facial expressions is of course perfectly suited to blood-and-gutsy comedies, and his history with the undead makes him the natural choice for Deadpool's inaugural arc, wherein the assassin also known as Wade Wilson must take on the deceased presidents of the United States. It's an appropriately irreverent storyline for this election season, and followers of Duggan's great (and often political) humor feed will be keen to see what the writer has in store for Marvel's most acerbic (and trollish) character.

In the late 19th century, about the time during which Mark Siegel's new graphic novel Sailor Twain, or, The Mermaid of The Hudson is set, American critics and thinkers started talking about "the Great American Novel," in response to England's dominance of English-language literature.

The Great American Novel, it was believed, would be one that captured and contained the spirit of the country in terms of its craft, its theme and its subject matter. Over the decades, plenty of novels have been identified as Great American Novels (and candidates for the Great American Novel), books that have become part of our literary canon, including Moby Dick, The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, whose author shares a surname with the title character of Siegel's book.

Could the Great American Novel actually be a Great American Graphic Novel...? The argument could be made for Siegel's Sailor Twain.

Gaming: NetherRealm Studios breaks down the differences between its Mortal Kombat games and the upcoming Injustice: Gods Among Us in a new "Behind the Battles" featurette. [I:GAU]

Digital: Dark Horse's digital comic offerings are now available on Android devices thanks to a new app. [DH]

The entire ComicsAlliance staff asks that, no matter what your political leanings, you go out and vote today. Some of us are compelled to vote due to a fervent belief in democracy. For others, the desire comes from stories of ancestors who were denied this basic right for years. And still others, like so many of us, are inspired to proudly march to the voting booths each election... because Spider-Man says so, in this 1992 PSA video.

Created by former Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Battlestar Galactica writer Jane Espenson and actor Brad Bell, Husbands is a live-action internet sitcom that stars Bell and Sean Hemeon as gay celebrity couple Cheeks and Brady, a scandal-prone actor and a recently self-outed athlete who were married under particularly drunken circumstances, but who are determined to make it work or else risk hurting America's broadening support of same-sex marriage equality. Now in its second season, the web TV series often features notably nerd-friendly actors like Nathan Fillion, Amber Benson, Joss Whedon, Tricia Helfer, and John Hodgman. But for fans of Espenson and those individuals, Husbands may feature fewer superheroes, aliens and time travel than they're used to seeing. As such, Bell and Espenson have teamed up with Dark Horse to produce a digital comics series that sends the titular husbands on a wry, reality-hopping journey through time and space.