I realized, for instance, that despite what I may have said earlier, my first issue is really not the "next issue" after 137. Even allowing that the recap in 138 would have happened as Chris and I originally planned, there is still a lapse of some weeks, or even months, between the showdown on the Moon and my Savage Land story. It's this, as much as anything, that has had me spending the last few days pruning and grafting, cutting pages, shuffling pages, adding pages.

Alas, my circular cliffhanger has been a casualty in all this. The issue now reads in straight chronological order. (Trying to figure how I can reshape that Wolverine/Sauron page and make it the cover.)