@EC - You met Joe Kubert?  That is simply amazing!  He was one of my favorite artists growing up and when I read he had a school, it seemed amazing!  The big boys are blunt about their art and your art but they have to be.  Besides, they are true professionals and they don't say it to squash you.  They say it to let you know where you're at.  In the end, I would've loved to be in your place.  By the way in addition to drawing Archie, Neal Adams also drew some comic porn, I think for Mad Magazine or Cracked.  I was stunned for a second then like always I appreciated his work.  Isn't something that yesterday's porn is considered merely erotic today?

@Rokket - Geez!  Anything I think of you're already way ahead!  You're gonna give me a complex!  I mention what rank I made when I left the service but you're probably at least two or three grades above it.  During the Bush years everything fell through the roof regarding my IT position.  Starting over (again), I got a job as a digital printer.  That left me with plenty of time to create and think so my brain didn't turn to mush.  Just a light ping so I can keep lurking this thread!