Rick Remender explains his writing philosophy:

When I work on a book, I end up seeding larger stories that I can tell, but it’s too easy to think up a big story and just keep escalating things. I like to seed things that have intention and show that there’s a long plan. At the same time, it feels like my responsibility is to give you an ending every four to five issues; to give some sort of conclusion while there are still plenty of B and C stories percolating and moving forward into my bigger plan. I’m making sure to tell you stories with beginnings, middles and ends, and when those stories are put together, they form a much bigger story — like a Voltron of Nerdocity.

Subplots and slow builds! I was going to write “Just like Chris Claremont at his best!” except, of course, Remender tends to have an end game in mind, which Claremont, bless him, rarely did if ever. It makes me wonder whether one of the reasons why we’re in such a writer-centric golden age these days is because writers stay on titles for shorter spans on average, so more stories tend to actually have endings…

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