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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thormagni" data-source="post: 2046121" data-attributes="member: 13637">Yah, he is the same guy I've been mentioning, but he is not the SAME guy if you get my meaning. Busiek had a succession of health problems over the years that slowly sapped his ability to concentrate on his writing. He always said that it never really affected his mainstream comics writing because those books didn't really require all that much concentration (Bob's point, I think) but it became harder and harder to really focus on the true story-telling stuff like Astro City or the big projects he was doing back in the mid 90s. Essentially, at first they thought he was having sinus problems because of constant illness and headaches and such if I remember correctly. They did massive operations on his sinus, which never really fixed the problem. Finally, years later, he found out that he was suffering from mercury poisoning. Last I heard, they were going through some steps to leach the mercury out of his system.Anyway, I have been afraid to pick up any of his non Astro City stuff in recent years. Mainly because he only releases Astro City books when they meet his high former standards, even if it takes him months or years to get the story done. And I worry that his mainstream comics stuff would fall so far below his previous high marks that I would be disappointed. You guys will have to let me know which camp his Conan work falls into.</blockquote>