ELEGY made me cry. It's so beautiful, Mike. Every panel tells me something new and advances the story. Moving. Touching. It is the best thing you've ever done -- yet.

Congratulations. You made a good story into a great one.

Holy shit, man.
That...I never expected an ending so touching from this story.

Yet again you twisted your story and turned it into something new.

Way to go out...

Wow!

You've chosen the hard way of doing this, long-form, so that your early missteps are carried forward with your later triumphs and I know that at times it's felt like a MillStone around your neck. Most of us can bury our earlier work, holding up the later more accomplished things as if we lept fully-formed from the head of Zeus. But then most of don't have such an impressive developmental work to hold up, most of us don't figure out how to make art out of our lives until much later, most of us aren't as ambitious as you and none of us could have achieved what you just have.

I could try and list all the beautiful telling detail that forwards and elaborates on your storytelling. I could list all the clever devices, the contraction and expansion of time, the meta-narrative. I could point out that it's often very well drawn, beautiful and unsettling. That's all beside the point however, it's the way it all holds together that makes it remarkable and affecting.

I love Panorama. Whatever you are cooking up next is going to set the world on fire!

...wow.

well done Mr. Michael Fiffe, well done.

i love page 55, so much in this.

just a great ending. i hope you're proud of it and enjoyed making it just as much as i loved reading it

Thank you. I've so much enjoyed following Panorama from the beginning, & the end certainly doesn't disappoint--is, in fact, totally wonderful.

Am greatly looking forward to see where you'll head next.

What a denouement. What a triumph. Congratulations on reaching the finish line, sir. Now I need to go back and start at the beginning...

panorama in it's beginning was a reliable source for incredibly fun and original comix, but it 's tremendous heart, breadth and surprising ability to touch people has made more than just another comic, at least for me.

i don't think your voice has come through so clearly or poignantly in your work as it does here in this last installment. the art, the story, the sentiment are all perfection, bubba.
now, pass the nachos!

I'm gonna start over at the beginning, then we'll talk.

BIGMACCHICENNUGGET!!!

COKE! BIG COKE!

It's not whether it's been said or not, Pedro... you've always been a very cool friend and I know that your intentions are positive. From the bottom of my heart I thank you for being there through the thickness, the drunkedness, and the yippie balls.

Encore? I'm gonna vacation for the next 100 years instead!

Takes one to know one!!!

xoxox

Thank you so much, Paul! Glad you liked it.

Thanks, buddy! I'm glad you dig all the aspects of this story. I have yet to read it all in one shot, so I'm curious what that experience is like.

I'm not even kidding when I say that all I've ever wanted to be is stupid fresh. I hope you meant that!!

3==========) *

High compliments coming from you, Tim... but don't try to scare me off, pal! I've already got comix coming up that will hopefully put this to shame. Or at least they'll be so different from each other that it won't matter.

I think you nailed it. Halfway through making the 9 page ending sequence, I realized that I was expressing my own feelings about this entire experience (aside from, ahem, personal life stuff that totally informed it).

Thank you so much, Derek! I like making comics for smart, kind, & cool people like yourself. It's my pleasure, really.

...your turn!

HA! Thank you so much, Thomas! Admittedly, at first I had trouble finding the story's voice and point, but I think I managed to make some sense of it!

A huge learning curve, this comic was. Don't know if I passed the test, but I did learn a whole hell of a lot. The conclusion I came to was precisely what you point out: good and pure comics are, at the root of it, all about story. Not flashiness or impressive perspective or detailed rendering. Without STORY, there is nothing.

Thanks for the good heads up all throughout Panorama, Nick. You're a great teacher, friend, and comix maker.

JOE! Your words are a constant inspiration and are sorely missed! Germany is a better place because of you. Thank you very much, my friend. Hopefully we'll get to celebrate in person sooner than later.

As difficult as it may have been at times, I'm glad it was followed to this extent. I'm very humbled. Thank you.

Thnx, Sam! I'm very glad you dug it til the end.

I don't know, part of me flirted with the idea of perpetuating these characters and their lives. X-men, this is not, though, so I'm glad to give them a solid goodbye. Who knows, though? If there's a story itching to get out, I'll find a way to make it happen.

In the meantime, I have a million other ideas that I hope will prove to be, not only as interesting as Panorama, but even better.

You've been such a cool staple in the face of online anonymity. I've fully appreciated your feedback, Kiel, and I look forward to your own work to drop like a bomb on all of us.

Mike, these words mean more to me than you will ever know. Not only do I respect your opinion and revere your talent and appreciate your honest, non-BS attitude towards Art & Comix & people, but it's good to know that a cartoonist of your caliber is cool enough to mingle with the likes of me.

I can only hope to offer you one day the same kind of help and support you have shown me since we met. For now, all I can do is try to show up at the studio more often and try to fight off the cruel boredom imps with a stick. And maybe some ping pong. Maybe a joke or two... for a change.

Phenomenal.