Maybe, but the way they were promoting it, they expected a huge reaction. Although I don't think they were expecting the reaction to be as…mixed(?)…as it turned out to be.

I think it "not damaging the character" is kind of irrelevant as is the "it'll eventually be reset." The people who are criticizing this aren't new readers for the most part and what they're upset about is how this reflects on a character. While it might not "change" the character, for the readers that do stay, it…

Although when they ask people to pay $5 for it since they're still so adamant about single issue sales and they turn out an issue like this (and one where they absolutely use their very strong corporate arm to market), they should absolutely expect the issue to be judged intently. To go through the process they did…

Although having both Spencer and Brevoort talking about its importance and how this is the real Steve Rogers and so on in typical Big Two Publisher huckster format is, at best, tiresome. And it's another thing that superhero fans are just supposed to…tolerate, I guess. I mean, Marvel and DC sales numbers aren't…

I'm not entirely sure DC (or Marvel for that matter) really know how to promote books that don't already have a pretty entrenched fan base.

It would be nice to see someone (anyone) else takeover writing Miles.

So…just enough to buy a Marvel comic.

I mean, there are tons of great comics out there and it's frustrating when people equate the superhero genre with comics as a medium, but then not only does Marvel and DC dominate the publishing, they also attract much more active attention from outside the comics industry.

Because it doesn't just fly in the face of the character since his inception but also it doesn't really mesh with the kind of Captain America stories that have been told for decades. Spencer seems to be legitimately confused and appalled that people he considers "good" would vote for someone like Trump and he's using…

Usually Cap's used to reflect those issues, what's happening here is Cap is specifically being used to express a metaphor. Reading through some of Spencer's thoughts on the direction, he's using Cap to show how "good" people can support someone like Trump or be racist or a number of other things…which is an awfully…

It's Hal Jorddan…it's always Hal Jordan, although sometimes it's Barry Allen. Are there other characters, I don't know. Frankly, I don't want to know.

He just finished up a miniseries with Brian K Vaughan for Image called We Stand On Guard. It's the first comic work he's done in ages as storyboarding for films was more profitable.

It annoys me that they always keep going back to the O5. The only time the All-New All-Different crew got that warm welcome was during Seagle and Kelly's run, and Marvel put an end to that real quick.

His best friend is Wolverine.

Ha, thanks, I always screw up his name.

He did an annual for them too around the time Marvel was just naming them after years (so it was either X-Mem '94 or '95). X-Men Prime was such mess and I sort of get why they had so many artists as it was essentially a preview comic for the X-line after AoA, but what a big "fuck you" to the readers.

A friend of mine has been reading Claremont era X-Men (right now he's stuck around post-Mutant Massacre/pre-Fall of the Mutants, which is a bit of a slog) and his reading of #201 is a lot more depressing knowing how things turn out for Scott and Maddie than the issue was originally supposed to be, which is kind of sad…

Cruz for some reason was doing a lot of their event single issues at the time and it always grated on me. You know who they had doing fill-ins at the time: guys like Carlos Pacgeco and Bryan Hitch.

That sums up the O5 perfectly.

Those four have proven since the '60s to be the absolute worst friend group in all of superhero comics They are the people you're friends with in high school for no other reason than they are literally in your general vicinity, and because they're a highly specialized group, they can never get rid of each other.