I remember Crossgen being a pretty exciting corner of comics publishing and it came out during a generally hopeful period. I was surprised to see it crash and burn so relatively quickly, though the behind-the-scenes retrospectives have all been hilarious to read in the amount of excess and mismanagement that happened…

This hurt like hell to find out. Probably my #1 favorite artist for the past decade. I've always dreamed of getting a sketch from him.

His 90's X-Factor art is significantly better than his return in the later book too. The 90's art you could at least call stylized. I'm quite sure X-Factor V.3 shed a lot of readers during that brief period he drew the book during Secret Invasion.

What book cancellation hit you the hardest?

I saw Nick Spencer facing a lot of fan criticism on his Twitter account over Sharon's age. It's actually in line with the continuity, since she spent a significant amount of time in the Negative Zone and was aged up during Remender's run. It's certainly a little odd that Steve is young again and Sharon was kept the…

I picked up almost all of the books. I still love reading them, but I'm a little disappointed that so few of them tell complete stories anymore. Most of them seemingly cut off mid-chapter without even a cliffhanger. It just… stops.

What'd everyone read this week?

The only drawback to this plan: there's no notable characteristics whatsoever to Halle Berry's Storm, besides being bad at jokes.

It's technically in a different universe from the other DC shows, so it's about to get extra confusing. On the plus side, that means we'll get more crossovers. Unfortunately, it's always going to be quite a stretch.

Link? I've been googling around but can't find the article in question.

Inhumans is likely his best work. Though aside from his Peter Parker: Spider-Man run and the initial Sentry mini, I can't remember much else of his stuff I enjoyed. He seemed like a unique voice that mostly just didn't fit with traditional superheroics.

I've been reading Iron Man and it has no seeming connection to the FCBD issue at all. I have no idea what kind of target audience would be enticed by this free issue. People who like Jim Cheung's take on the Avengers? He's not even drawing the main series though.

I've mostly been reading my FCBD issues and I'm enjoying them soooo much. It's just a pleasure to read through such a variety of stories compared to the books I normally buy. The only downside is that the trend is shifted so that we're less likely to get full stories anymore, and many publishers go the route of giving…

I read a fair number of Convergence stories, and the only worthwhile one for me was The Question by Rucka and Hamner. Everything else just felt like a wasted opportunity. There was a lot of repetition too - all of the stories have the same scene with the omniscient super-being announcing the premise to all the worlds.

Agreed about the ending. Seeing all these panels of mopey Cap crying about registration made my head spin all over again.

I think it's worth checking out just so you can be in the know. At this point, it's an essential piece of comic history that everyone should have some background knowledge on.

I was incredibly confused while reading it. Is this supposed to be our introduction to Ulysses? Or did he first show up in one of those Inhumans book that nobody is reading?

It's probably one of the most iconic Hulk stories at this point, but I agree with all the arguments on why it'd be a difficult film to adapt faithfully. It'd essentially be an all-CGI movie if done the way it's written. I could see it working if they worked in more Ruffalo and practical creatures.

The casting alone would create such a headache. So many Tom Hollands! Maybe throw in a Tobey Maguire and an Andrew Garfield for fun?

As far as tie-ins go, that was a perfectly logical thread of the story to follow up on. That's why I could enjoy the Civil War Wolverine arc for what it was.