Tysm! Mignola is one of my top inspirations so it's always nice to hear a omparison to him lol. I also liked the MFKZ movie, haven't read the comic yet tho.

It's hard to get into specifics of what makes for a good story since that's subjective. For me, an important aspect of making comics is pacing and structure. I try to break each comic I make down into smaller pieces that are their own "stories" in a way, whether that's chapters or acts or something else. There are a lot of ways to go about that, but for this comic, I split it into three acts; one to establish the characters and make them sympathetic, one to explain their situation and motivations, and the third to be a tense payoff of that buildup.

I also try to do the same thing on a page level. Each page starts with a new piece of information, and ends with either a question or mystery of some kind that makes the reader wnat to keep going. The idea is to take advantage of every page you have to give them something new to chew on at a regular rhythm. But on the other hand you don't want to overwhelm the reader with too much info at once.

Hope that makes some sense and you get something out of it!

Ha ha yeah, he's up in my top 3 favorite artists. I wear my inspirations on my sleeve lol