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God, it's really good to see ChrisCross doing comic work again. He took some time off from doing American comics after abruptly leaving "Firestorm, but is back with this week's Midnighter #11 (with Keith Giffen!).
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How good an artist is ChrisCross? He is so good an artist that I would pick up Midnighter #11 this week even though I haven't followed the book at all. THAT'S how good an artist he is -- the type of artist you follow from book-to-book.
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"Yeah, it just got to the point where I was just…tired. I just wanted to pick up and be a chef somewhere or something. The fiancee and a couple of other friends convinced me to stick with it. They told me, “There’s things you need to do, you can’t cut it out yet."
My two cents? I think the "Firestorm" experience probably burned him out for a number of different reasons. "Firestorm" was an experience, a heavily-hyped event that faced a lot of scrutiny both by the fans (many of whom were rabidly disappointed that Ronnie Raymond was out) and internally.
Frankly -- and this is just an opinion -- I think the company had cold feet about the reboot of Firestorm at the very same time that they pushed the book. That sort of ambivalent energy makes such projects a weird experience for everybody.
Also, as ChrisCross mentions in the interview, he had "Outsiders" and "JLA" work going on pretty much simultaneously. He had a tremendous about of work on his plate, and he's not the type of artist who just hacks things out like an assembly line.
I was real happy how things turned out with Jamal Igle on "Firestorm," but I did miss ChrisCross's work. He would have made any book he was on a winner. One of the virtuoso under appreciated talents out there. So it's good that he's back and hopefully he's here to stay.
I loved his work on Captain Marvel.
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