Last year ended on a sad note for comic fans with Stan "The Man" Lee's passing. The early months of 2019 continued that doom gloom feeling with George Perez's announcement that he's retiring from comics ... or to be exact, "the business of creating new comic stories".

Perez's (inevitable) announcement came last month (via his official Facebook account). He wrote: "With respect to future published work in comics and such ... while I know it's been no secret that I've been dealing with a myriad number of health issues (diabetes, heart ailments, vision issues), they have indeed have forced me to, for all intents and purposes, formally retire from the business of creating new comic stories."