>It’s been said you weren’t particularly fond of the Byrne/Stern 2000-2001 limited series. Do you remember what in particular you didn’t care for?>

I felt like most all of the drop-in characters felt like thin, watered-down versions of other characters, both Marvel ones and other people’s, and I felt like the premise of the series started to get bent when we got into stories where Reed Richards was the scientist who finds the alien and so forth–if the mandate was to build something that was going to be tethered to a particular period in time, the real-world 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, then it needed to be able to remain tethered there while the rest of the Marvel universe continued to move forwards in time as “Marvel Time” constantly readjusted itself.

But mostly, I just didn’t think any of the characters or stories were all that great.