Byrne did lose it during Alpha Flight and he says that's why he left that book. He felt there was no depth to the characters and that a new creative team was needed. I enjoyed his writing on Iron Man though. His use of the Marrs twins as Tony's competition in the business world was very creative and his run on Namor was well done also. (But when he stopped pencilling it, IMO he became too experimental in his scripting.) His West Coast Avengers was so-so though. I did, however, appreciate his bringing the Original Human Torch back and doing some continuity clean up in his origins.


"You kind of get tired giving the other team credit. At some point you've got to look in the mirror and say 'I sucked.'"

Alex Rodriguez, after the NY Yankees were eliminated from the 2006 ALDS by the Detroit Tigers.