Star Brand #12 Pg. 7

That bottom Con sequence is too good!

As "meta" as a comic book page can get for this specific creator! ;)

Never quite knew what to do with these New Universe books when they came out in 1986.  Certainly quite the ambitious plan by then Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter.  A completely new and separate world that existed completely independent of the existing Marvel universe.  Even though they were the #1 comic company in the world, outselling almost every other publisher combined, it was still quite a tall order.  A brand new, unknown universe for readers to accept, buy, and follow.  He wanted it to be more realistic, so no magic, no gods, no unknown secret races or mythological beings.  Basically the old Marvel without the fun stuff.  Haha!  As you might expect, it wasn’t very well received.  Sure, all the 1st issues sold out.  But only because it was still Marvel Comics after all.  But of the eight titles launched in 1986, four were cancelled after a year and the rest were gone by 1989.  I guess the lesson here is to just leave well enough alone.  Anyway, this is a cool page because of the character content and the personal connection to John and yourself.  Plus it’s still Byrne and Palmer, so you can’t go wrong there. 

Nice one!