High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stickleback is the eponymous title character of a steampunk comic series created by Ian Edginton and D`Israeli appearing in UK comics anthology 2000 AD. Described by his author as a "bad guy," Stickleback is cast initially as a Moriarty-type figure, "The Pope of Crime secretly presides over the criminal fraternity of a fantastical, grotesque, Gormenghast-style old London town."