Hi JB,

Been rereading your run on AF. Had a question regarding Shaman. I noticed that his wife, Kathryn, and his grandfather had passed away on the same day. Then in the issue where Guardian died Snowbird makes a comment to Shaman about this. Then Guardian dies on the same day.

Was this going to be a continuing thing with Shaman having lose people close to him on this day or was it simply a cosmic coincidence that this happened?

Thank you.

I'd never picked up on this before and just returned to the run in the hope that Elizabeth's almost demise in issues27/28 was also on said anniversary but it was not to be.

That said, at the risk of going over old ground, there is so much in this series that I think is unrivalled in the super hero genre. It truly is the run that keeps on giving and, with the exception of Michel Fiffe's self-published COPRA and JB's NEXT MEN, I'm not sure if I have come across a team book that handles such a large cast so well.

I saw AF described recently, and it may have been on this book, as a soap opera and whilst this does it a tad disservice, with all the connotations towards poor quality, I can see the similarities.