We didn't know how good we had it in 2013. Jonathan Hickman was on Fantastic Four and Avengers, and Rick Remender was doing Secret Avengers. I'm not sure if things will ever be this good again.
Remender and Hickman are now busy doing their own creator owned work, but I still miss their touches on the Marvel heroes. (Remender's run on Uncanny X-Force remains one of my favourite comic book runs of all time.) So I thought I'd just randomly read an old issue from the Good Times, when the future seemed a lot brighter and smarter.
This issue made me nostalgic for the fun back then. Hawkeye and Captain Britain discussing The Smiths, the Flash Thompson Venom, an alternate world of Marvel heroes gone all horror called Earth-666, Wolverine as Morbius The Living Vampire, Captain America as a werewolf, Punisher as Frankenstein's Monster, and even the original Human Torch as an evil baddie.
There was just an energy to this book that I don't see that often anymore.
I'm getting older every day.
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