FIRESTORM! (And I'm excited for Zatanna, too. It's just the last time we've had a good Firestorm series is close to 20 years ago.)

Nope. "Christians" like Joni Ernst hide behind their "belief" that, when people die, they go to "a better place." So throwing people off Medicaid is just seen as getting them there a bit sooner. This is the trap of their beliefs: they can't be wrong, it's a (weaponized) part of the belief system.

What a mouthful!

Not Feds? Give them a few months and they probably will be if Von Shitzenpants gets his way.

I didn't - Byrne began Avengers West Coast after he'd left the Superman books. His last DC issues were dated October 1988.

Interesting fact: Byrne wasn't DC exclusive; in fact he wrote and drew The Star Brand for Marvel from January 1988, meaning as soon as Shooter was out, he came back.

Note too that O'Neil left Marvel editorial to edit the Batman books at DC in mid 1986, with Dark Knight Returns as his return as co-editor. The 1st issue came out the month after Incredible Hulk #319. The situation kinda stinks.

It's also interesting to note that Byrne stayed on Fantastic Four for another 5 months after leaving Hulk, but only the last issue overlaps with his Man of Steel mini. The timing is extremely suspect and I doubt we know the full story. Looks like Byrne used Hulk as an excuse to leave Marvel.

I go into this a bit in my blog piece on Byrne's Hulk. Shooter says issue 320 got rejected by Denny O'Neil, who he claimed was letting his assistant do his job while he wrote on company time. Shooter says he loved the story & had Al Milgrom run it in Fanfare, which earned Byrne more money.

Apparently, late Marvel editor Denny O'Neil had his share of the blame, too, but yeah. Remember that only the letterer, colorist, and assistant editor remained on the Hulk's series between issues 319 and 320. Byrne, O'Neil and inker Keith Williams all left. A culling by any other name.

Nothing reads like "crawl up in the ass of the person who could jail all your journalists" quite like...

LOL. Now where did I say I still own the original copies of those other books? (I don't!)

If it were well-loved, I wouldn't have it today. I only have it because it was in a 3-pack of comics picked up at a Woolworth's at the local mall when I was 4.

Eh. You'd think the seat was too old for him now. Oh, well.

Cover artist Daniel Acuña should have become a bigger name. His stuff is incredible.

"Also, can I please have my House seat back?"

My surprising opinion? "Days of Future Past" was a great story, but started a LONG history of increasingly absurd "worry about the future" stories that stretched credulity to its limit. Rachel, Ahab, Cable, Bishop, etc. Enough already! Not everything has to have dire stakes to affect generations.

Dig that theme song!

"Magneto's hordes are on the way
To pillage, burn and plunder
But there's one team that will not yield
The team that strikes like thunder!

X-Men
This is their day
X-Men
Coming your way!"