Mike Allred on Golden Plates, X-Statix This is a standard cartoonist profile of Mike Allred driven by the recent, heavily covered Golden Plates effort and its initial indications of success. What I found interesting here was a bit on comic shops stocking that volume and Allred's take on some creative troubles with his last high-profile gig, providing art for Marvel's X-Statix. I do think he spoke about it publicly at the time, but what I'm really entertained by is how the article covers both.