“…Probably the biggest and best thing about this title was the genre. Sci-fi was a non-presence in comics at this point. Sure, now we have outstanding cosmic stories being told in both Marvel and DC – Annihilation and the Sinestro Corps War being among the best examples – but the big two didn’t really start paying attention to Sci-Fi until the latter half of the decade. The last Space Ghost mini and Fear Agent were also excellent outings, but before all of these was Negation, and before Negation, we just hadn’t seen something of that quality in some time.”

I wanna save a longer appreciation of this comic for a future post on Great Black Comic Books, but I will say this much: there are those who say the monthly pamphlet format is dying. Well, that may or may not be true, but I know for a fact that a big part of the fun behind reading this incredible comic was the anticipation of waiting for the next issue. It’s difficult for me to truly convey the level of excitement Negation generated in me, and others like me, every month. There are comics that I’ve read on a monthly basis in the past that, good as they may have been, simply didn’t generate that same level of “I GOTTA KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!!” Strangers in Paradise did it for me (before it jumped the shark). Y: The Last Man did also. And Negation did in a big way. It was so unpredictable. You never knew what was going to happen, who was going to die or was in danger of dying, or where the book would go, and that was because so much was packed into each issue. I miss Negation so much and it’s a tragedy that it never got to properly finish. But what we did get was golden.