Another post about Rags that doesn't have anything to do with IDENTITY CRISIS:
It was stupid of DC not to let Rags do the covers for HOURMAN until later on in the run. I avoided that comic like the plague because of the ugly cover artwork by Scott McDaniel (I am not a fan) and never even bothered to check inside despite my being a time travel aficionado.
I didn't even start picking up the book until issue #7 or 8 after recommendations from HourGirl at the DC boards (who sent me some hard-to-find earlier issues, in fact, for which I will always be grateful), and with those issues I realized what a great book it was. It had great storytelling, naturally, but the artwork by Rags Morales was fantastic!
I sincerely believe that DC's hare-brained choice of McDaniel as cover artist for the first few crucial issues of HOURMAN was a factor in that book's cancellation.
