First off, given the location of the Supreme Intelligence's head, and that cocoon, doesn't it look a little like Supremor just barfed up an Adam Warlock?
But nevermind that now. Look in the lower right corner. See the little box, says "Mike Lilly 2007"? Why is that there? This issue didn't have a credits page anywhere like the previous issues, so maybe Lilly wanted to make sure he was credited somewhere in the interior?
Has he been told the page is going to be made into a poster, and so they told him to make sure his name was on it somewhere?
I saw something similar in this week's Namor issue, a full-page spread of Namor bursting out the sea. But in that case the name in the corner was "John Byrne", making reference to the cover of the first issue of Byrne's series, that it was homaging. I can't find another name on the Quasar page, except perhaps for that "A" next to Lilly's name. Wikipedia fails to provide any mention of an artist with a last name beginning with "A" being associated with any of Adam Warlock's major stuff, and Angel Medina is the only artist mentioned with a first name beginning with "A".
Bob Almond is one of two inkers working on Quasar, if the credits page of #3 is still accurate for #4, so I guess he could have put the "A" to signify he was the inker? Oh, I'm so confused.
It sure is a pretty page, though.
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Heh. He DOES look as though he was just hacked up by the Supreme Intelligence! So it's not just you. And that is a suspiciously well located whisp of smoke there.
I guess I can't blame an artist for wanting to get a little credit for his or her work.
sallyp: Yeah, especially without the credits anywhere inside the book.
I do wonder what one has to eat to cough up an Adam Warlock?
I've seen artists (and writers) signing the last page of their works as a little signoff thing. I think Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso have done it, Leo Fernandez and Scott Hanna did it in their Punisher MAX arc.
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