MARVEL CHECKLIST

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I did, for five issues, right before the run ended.

It was kind of a weird deal, my first ongoing assignment. Joe Q was GREAT, he asked me to pitch personally, and the first editors were also fantastic. I loved it.

Marvel got a little mad at Rob Liefeld, I guess, and asked me to kill Deadpool, and relaunch the book with a new character. I argued the point but had no power and in those days, Bill Jemas' whims pretty much ruled the day (which is fine, he was the boss). So I did the last issue, but I left a backdoor, a way to bring Deadpool back because I knew the whole idea was just an angry impulse and both Marvel and the readers would want him back.

The relaunched book was Agent X, which was a lot of fun and sold much better than anyone thought (and was the only one of several similar relaunched to hold the increase in sales). Then I quit the book (creative differences with the new editor) and they had some fill-ins and decided to cancel the book for reasons having nothing to do with sales (it was the X-in the title, ironically, something that had been forced upon us).

But the cool thing is, once that editor was gone (and he's not a villain in this story,we just didn't agree on anything, so it's as much or more my fault as anyone's) Marvel did a very classy thing and asked me back to finish the story properly with the original artist. I am always going to be grateful for that, that was completely cool of them. And Joe Q is still a good friend to this day.

I miss the characters a lot, and working with the artist, Alvin Lee. I haven't done a straight comedy book since, really, and I miss that, too. Love what I'm doing, though. You can't beat Wonder Woman!

Gail

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