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What's the status of Desolation Jones and Newuniversal?

Have these titles been cancelled or on hiatus?

This is a small thought that's been in the back of my mind for a couple years now. Whenever I read X-Men: Asgardian Wars, specifically the Alpha/Flight X-men #2 issue, pages 90-94 (using the TPB numbering) have always looked like Barry Windsor-Smith on inks. No mention in the credits either. Any ideas?

Desolation Jones is on hiatus

Good thing the spot's not-deaditude is rising.
He needs to get better in time for M.O.D.O.K.'s 11.
And if the hand prevented M.O.D.O.K. from massive robbery for universal domination: The terrorists win.

The Spot was also killed off in an issue of Spider-Man's Tangled Web. I don't remember the issue number, but it was a story about Tombstone. The Spot is a great character, but they keep killing him off.

They killed Slyde? Bah.

The Spot gets killed off all the time, though, so no worries.

Is it always the same Spot that gets killed or are they new Spots everytime?

Thriller was said to have had the best pitch that Dick Giordano ever saw, but within 8 issues, both of the creators were gone and the "Down Time" story never really got a finished. What happened (since I've heard there was an interesting story there) and what was the original plot for "Down Time"?

When did writers and artists start getting their names on the covers of comics? It seems like an Image idea(which would explain why colorists aren't credited).

DC Comics that I read in the mid-1980s had the writer and artist names on the cover, so it pre-dates Image.

I have a question.
And it is, hopefully, an easy one that has an easy answer.

Have the DITKO "MR. A" comics ever been compiled into a book/collection/omnibus, etc...?

If so, is it O.O.P.?
(If so, eBay here I come)

I have a friend who is a believer (of sorts) of AYN RAND's (and STEVE DITKO's) philosophy; OBJECTIVISM, and I's love to present him with the definitive work on the subject via the lens of the "super hero" comic.

How about DITKO'S "QUESTION"?

Please, ANYONE, let me know.

ThanX!

~P~
P-TOR

2 questions:

1. In the "Knight's End" story line where Bruce Wayne too back the mantle of Batman from Azreal, there is obne scene where Bruce is standing high atop a gargoyle contemplating the big leap he made from there years ago as a test when he started being Batman. On the lower right corner of the page are two rectangualr, black boxes that look like captions that have been marked out. I know they are that way in the TPB, and I think I remember them that way in the original. What's the story on them?

2. In Batman: Dark Victory
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What was the deal with Sofia, the Hangman killer? When it was revealed that she wasn't really paralyzed, she also seemed to grow to 3 times her size. Was she supposed to be using Venom? It almost looked like she had the same ports on her head that Bane did. (I know this story should pre-date Knightfall.) We are given no explanation, just, "she wasn't as she seemed to be." Is Dark Victory in continuity?

Scott: Creators getting publicly acknowledged for their work goes back a ways. I think creators' names first began appearing inside the comics in the 1960s with the rise of Marvel and underground comix. I think they began appearing on the covers in the mid to late 1980s. By the by, your classification of it as sounding like an "Image thing" seems oddly disparaging. Something wrong with acknowledging the people who do the work?

SSC: Yes, all or almost all of Mr. A has been collected into those Steve Ditko omnibuses, or some other omnibuses, but I think they're also OOP.

Mark: Those black boxes used to be "Next Issue: Ya-da-da!!!!!" boxes in the original issues. Or other similar things. You see those all the time in trades. And no, I don't think she was using Venom. An vaguely Image-y concept like Venom wouldn't fit the mood of that comic. Or really, the mood of anything Jeph Loeb has ever written that wasn't drawn by Rob Liefeld. DV is not firmly within continuity, like LotDK, but it probably could be.