I couldn’t have put it better myself

After four months, I’m still a bit surprised and saddened every time I read that Mike Wieringo passed away. I’ve never been able to quite put my finger on what I liked so much about the guy. Something about his work just always connected with me. During a recent interview with newsarama.com discussing Spider-Man Family #7, the “Ringo tribute issue, frequent collaborator Karl Kesel perfectly explained not only my love of Mike Weiringo’s work, but my love of comics in general:

…I think Mike and I enjoyed working together because we had some very similar, basic views of what good comics are, and at the core of that is the belief that no matter how dark the journey, there needs to be a light at the end of the tunnel. Comics should be something that make you want to jump out of bed every morning filled with the sense of life’s possibilities, not something that makes you want to pull the covers over your head in despair and dread.

‘Nuff said.