Comic books can tell the future.

The Official Mike Grell Website:

"And then instead of the terrorist plot, I managed to work in the Iran Contra thing.

I found out later on, in fact, a couple years later, that I actually beat that story into print by six months. I got a phone call from somebody who wanted to know how I knew, in advance, that this had happened. And I said it's really simple, all I did was take the various players that were doing things in the world, and said to myself, 'What would be the stupidest thing the CIA could possibly do if they thought they could get away with it.' And that's what I wrote."