Thanks for noticing - no joke, that was the hardest sentence in the article to get right.

You are my favorite critic. Your honesty is like a blast of chilly air on a sweltering day.

I haven't seen the movie yet and have amazingly avoided any spoilers myself, so you didn't hear any from me!

I am sort of getting a reputation as the guy who always writes these articles. I'm sure I'll pitch one for the X-Men film, too (I should probably get on that, actually).

The narration and dialogue in that scene in particular is perfect. The three bottom panels where Cap puts his mask back on are incredibly affecting, I think.

It was a character assassination, yes, but it produced some interesting results.

The thing is, the name "Marvel" shows up a lot in the company's early history, alongside a number of other names like Timely, Atlas, and a bunch more obscure labels. Martin Goodman - Marvel publisher until the early 70s - basically ran Marvel and it's associated magazine companies like a baroque tax shelter, sprouting…

"It's as if Lucasfilm, for all we criticize it, was more willing to muck with things than the people who bought it."

I reviewed the book for the simplest of reasons: someone in the comments section here suggested that we review it.

Well, question away.

I don't think that's dishonest at all, I think it's pretty even-handed. Some people hate the guy, hence what can fairly be called "resistance."

And boy did that story stink, sort of blew a hole in the middle of the run.

Well, reasonable minds can disagree. Maybe if i had the article to write again, I might have touched on it - but I thought it was more important to spend the time explaining the comics industry of the early 90s, which explains not just the environment from which Deadpool emerged but also why he remains controversial…

No, the bit where we found out Deadpool wasn't really Wade Wilson and T-Ray was really Wade Wilson, that was *literally* the same thing as Armin Tamzerian, complete with the "and we'll never mention this again" coda.

The Priest run is underrated, as most of Priest's stuff tends to be. I think the problem is that when Priest came on board, there was really no idea that the book would continue going for as long as it did. It wasn't one of Marvel's best sellers, which is why the later run is so valuable today. He even says explicitly…

Again, it was purely a matter of space that much of latter-day Deadpool didn't make the cut. There are word limits to these things, after all, even if I >ahem< like to sometimes pretend there aren't.

But . . . I'm an old person, and I wrote the article? Does not compute.

This is precisely it. He never misses deadlines. Books are never late because of him. That will ensure him work until the heat-death of the sun.

Anytime you write about the guy, the temptation is to go full in on the mockery. I tried to put him in a more balanced context.

And the new Carnage book isn't half bad, either. Written by Gerry Conway, it's a real Bronze Age throwback.