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The frustration lay in the fact that toward the end, say my last year or so on the book, I was doing most of the plotting, but when Chris scripted the issues, he used scenes for other than what I intended. Important elements were lost, and most often without the chance to slip them in somewhere else.

This was nothing new, of course. I have mentioned before how Chris' scripting of a scene in the Savage Land gave birth almost by itself to the "Cyclops is a dick" stance adopted by so many X-Fans. That was definitely not the intended purpose of the scene -- and the irony there was that the intended purpose was Chris's!! He scripted the scene against his own intent!

This is a big downside of the "Marvel Method." If the writer is off his/her game that day, or in the mood to write a particular kind of scene even if that scene is not in the art, things can wander off down strange paths. Like I've said, Chris scripted ONE panel differently from what I intended, and completely gutted my plot for "Days of Future Past." It can be that easy!