That is the first page of official Marvel Comics brilliance ever to flow from the pen of Mike Deodato, Jr.

The comic book was Avengers #380. The time was November 1994. 17 years later, the man is still making history.

The following pages are just few of the things in the past two years that have turned our eyes inside out and validated the existence of humanity in the cosmos. Mike Deodato, we salute you. You have been in the right place at the right time with the right stuff. Thanks for helping lift both Squirrel Girl and the Miami Heat into the firmament of epic mythology.

You are the best.