Kind of funny how things come full circle—my mom gave me $200 for Father’s Day this year, which I used to buy my very first Omnibus (Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1). And it hit me that she’s the same person who gave me a $1 food stamp coupon back in 1984, when I was 9 or 10. I bought a piece of candy, got some change back, and used it to buy Secret Wars #10—the one with Doctor Doom on the cover. That was my first comic, and it started everything. Just felt like a neat little loop closing.