“…were I in charge of either of the Big Two, my “solution” to the ills of the industry would be to “reset” all the books to where they were at some arbitrarily chosen point in time. Usually I say 1976, for many reasons good and bad. Mostly because that’s the last year when, while actually still working in the Biz, I really still felt like a fan.”

— John Byrne

2007
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On taking comics back to the basics; ‘rewinding’ or ‘resetting’ to the status quo

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