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A Look Back at CrossGen and a Look Forward at Marvel

At the recent San Diego Comic Con this year big names revealed big things with movie stars popping up left and right while attendees of the con got to be some of the first to test out new video games and hear the latest in spoiler-rific news. However at one early Saturday morning panel fans gathered to hear Marvel editor-n-chief and recently appointed CCO Joe Quesada spilled the beans and answer questions at his very own Cup’ O Joe panel, where among other things Joe Q got a chance to ask a question of his own after revealing a rather interesting pair of Logos :

                               
What does it mean?

Good question right? Well for starters what Joe Q unveiled and then quickly transformed was something long time comic book fans will surely recognize as the now long defunct Cross-Gen Sigil. (The logo of a small time Florida based comic book Company that made it into the big time for bit before going bankrupt back in 2004.) CrossGen prided itself on quite literally the lack of superheroes in its books where instead readers were treated to tales of high adventure in fantasy realms or mystery and suspense in noir like settings and even the occasional intergalactic space battle or two.

CrossGen made comics that didn’t need cape clad crime fighters to tell stories of the struggle between good and evil, with each individual series tying into the grand scheme of the “Sigilverse,” despite however different each may have appeared, and though the company officially went belly under some time ago, it gave many of the most popular creators working in comics today their start.