In November 2020, I began a project called "Heroes for the '90s!" with a mission of creating "a body of essays will present a vivid picture of superhero comics at [Marvel and DC] in the 1990s," as I wrote in my introduction to the series. I found as I began writing that not only were the essays a snapshot of the comics industry of the time, they were an account of my formative years as both a fan and a human being. I had planned to write 38 total essays, but by the time I got to #25, marking the first half of the decade, another project callled for my attention. Ironically, it was inspired directly by essay #12 . I ended up putting "Heroes for the '90s!" on hiatus, and instead spent the rest of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 working on a biography of Marvel comics writer and editor Mark Gruenwald (due out next year, hopefully, from University Press of Mississippi). I hoped to finish "Heroes for the '90s!" in the fall of 2022, but
Graphic thoughts from a comic book geek