If snell Had Created The Fourth World, There Would Have Been A Lot More Headlines Like This

(editor's note: OK, that joke was so dense and lame that even snell himself didn't get it. Slay Monstrobot apologizes for this)
(snell: shut up, I'm in Vegas, and you're lucky you're even getting a post. So there!)

Headline from John Byrne's Next Men #16 (1993).

Manic Monday--That Was Then, This Is Now

Alas, how often the innocence and idealism of youth give way, in adulthood, to the same sins decried in salad days...

From the letters page in John Byrne's Next Men #8 (1992):

And, a mere 18 years later, that same challenger of the status quo, who rejected society's "mamby-pamby cornball comic book science", writes in Avengers #3:


Oh, the tragedy of lost youth!! If only the young Bendis could see what his elder self would go on to write cornball comic book science. The irony!!

"I challenge thee," indeed.