Sunday sermon: Markisan Naso kicks off "All the Rage" with a bitter and somewhat irrational lecture, lambasting new Marvel publisher Dan Buckley for daring to cancel / consolidate / whatever Epic:

"San Giacomo was lucky enough to escape his contract and move his book Phantom Jack to Image, but for the rest of the poor sons-a-bitches looking forward to their first mini-series, they have no choice but to stand by helpless as Marvel cuts off their knees like they took Gimley’s ax to the caps.

"I have to tell you this is complete bullshit.

"If you start a venture and tell the parties involved it’s going to happen a certain way, you don’t go and change the deal at the last moment. Where I’m from that’s called screwing people over. Buckley, and whoever else was involved in this crap, you should have taken responsibility for Marvel's actions. You should have seen the first round of Epic through whether it cost you the green or not. After you fulfilled your promises a move to an anthology becomes an option, but not before. You should have stood by the people who busted their asses to write and draw those mini-series. What you’ve done instead is some cowardly shit."

The tirade certainly makes this installment more interesting than most of Markisan's columns. But it makes me wonder whether he's been hanging out with Michael Deeley. Eh, maybe Markisan can blame the craziness on Blair Marnell, whose services apparently were required to co-write this week's "ATR." (Trolling message boards for "rumors" is a two-person job, y'know.)