De mortuis nil nisi bonum: Oh. Sorry. But Mike Sangiacomo broke out the Latin first with "My Epic Post Mortem," which is not so much a look back at Epic as it is a look at the task ahead.

Anyway, Sangiacomo gives us more "Phantom Jack" minutiae by letting us know that Ray Dillon is busy ridding the book of that pesky Marvel-exclusive downstyle font (which should make Augie De Blieck pleased as punch).

But, Sangiacomo tells us, it's too late to make some changes -- namely eliminating the Jemasification and decompression of his original concept:

"Some of the scenes that I wanted in the book were excised during the editing process.

"It’s too late to put them back in. Actually, Mitch threatened physical violence if I asked him to redraw the book.

"So issue #2 will be closer to my original concept and issue 3 even more so. Mitch has already done layouts for #2, so we won’t change it too much. Issue 3 is wide open and I am trying to figure out how to cram some of the fun stuff that was cut back in."