BTW, here is the link and quote of why Greg Rucka left the big 2.
The dirty little secret is that those Image guys made all these deals and almost to a man failed to deliver. They burnt Hollywood horribly on letting comics talent actually be a part of the production of the material they sold.I’ve reached the end of my Work For Hire rope. I’m enjoying The Punisher, but that’s not mine, it’s Marvel’s, and l knew that going in. I have spent a lot of my comics career in service of other masters, – and I’ve had enough of that for now. I’m sick to death of the way the Big Two treat people.
I gave seven very good years to DC and they took gross advantage of me. That’s partially my fault, but not entirely. At this point, I see no reason why I should have to put up with that, I can sink or swim on my own.
You are seeing a grotesque Hollywoodisation of the two main companies. There was at least a period where I felt that the way they wanted to make money was by telling the best story they could; now the quality of the work matters less than that the book comes out. There is far less a desire to see good work be done.
Dan DiDio has gone on record, and this is the same man that said Gotham Central would never be cancelled as long as he was there, telling people what a great book Gotham Central was, but it never made any money.
Well, take a look at your trade sales! That book has made nothing but money as a trade. What I’m now being told is, ”lt was never worth anything to us anyway.”So, you know what? They can stop selling the Batwoman: Elegy trade and stop selling the Wonder Woman trades and everything else I’ve done, because clearly I’ve not done anything of service and those guys aren’t making any money off me.
Right now, where the market is, I have no patience for it.
My run on Punisher ends on #16, and we are then doing a five-issue mini called War Zone and then I’m done. That’s it! The Powers-That-Be at Marvel, without talking to me, decreed that he’s going to join a team on another book.
That’s their choice, they own him, but I don’t have to be happy about it. I am glad I had the opportunity to work on the character and I’m proud of the work I’ve done.
Despite what the publishers say, their interest in the talent is minimal now, the interest is only in promoting the financial worth of their properties. That was not the case as of two or three years ago, when there was an ‘Exclusives war’, but that’s all gone by the wayside now. Ultimately, they are saying, “We don’t need you,’ because they can get a million more just like you.
For every person who passes on the opportunity to write Spider-Man or Superman, I guarantee there are 5000 hungry writers who would give their eye-teeth to do it. But just because they want to do it, it doesn’t mean they are capable of doing it. It comes down entirely to Warner Bros. realising what they owned but had not exploited. At the end of the Harry Potter franchise, they went “Oh, crap, we need something else fast’, looked over at Marvel’s very very successful film program.
DC are playing catch up with Marvel, because of things like The Avengers breaking six hundred million domestic. That’s a lot of money, I don’t begrudge Warner Bros wanting to make bank it would be like blaming a shark for eating, but l do think that the pursuit of that financial windfall bears a detrimental effect on the creative and artistic side.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/09/20/greg-rucka-on-leaving-marvel-and-dc-behind/
Pretty soon, I think we will see a slew of creators leaving the big 2 to do their own thing at Image or Dark Horse or whatever.
Swamp Thing was really good this week.
Looks like Marvel NOW sales are dropping. More so than DCnU when it first started out.
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/december-2012-comic-book-sales-charts.html
Originally posted by Golgo13
I wasn't saying it was a good excuse at all, but how do you know it wasn't at DC before the 52? Greg Rucka would disagree with you there as some of the other creators who are angry with Dan Didido.
I'm not saying that nobody's been angry with Didio before. They have. it's just never been to this scale before.
Swamp Thing will be getting a new writer! Charles Soule! Another up and comer.
Originally posted by comicfan11
Two thoughts.It seems Starlin won't be writing New Gods stuff. Bullet of cr@p dodged.
The WW cover. Hate it. Orion jobbing to WW. Really? Hope Azz shows some respect to Jack friggin Kirby's friggin God of War.
Damnit! Venditti is no longer writing Constantine. Lemire and Ray Falkes are. Might be a good team, but I wanted to see what Venditti could do. I am enjoying his XO Manowar book.
I'm pissed that Jim Zubb is off BOP, I wanted to see what he could do there, but I think Christie Marx is a good fit.
And Jim STARLIN writing Stormwatch?! Why, god, why?!! 🙁
At least Soules is still on Swamp Thing.
Looks like there won't be any big books being changed too much, just the small ones, which is what I was saying earlier.
Originally posted by comicfan11
The way she lifts him up and rips his mask seems like jobbing.
And even if she can give Orion a fight, she ain't beating him.
At least not Preboot Orion.
Then its a good thing its not preboot wonder woman vs orion.
Scott snyder talks about superman
http://1979semifinalist.podomatic.com/
The most important part is this however.
I really like stories that alienate him not because he’s an alien himself physically or because he has this weird power set, but because sometimes doing the right thing is lonely. And I think in a lot of ways that’s what connects him to Lois as well, you know, and part of what we’re getting at (and to Luthor!). So that sense of alienation not because he’s Superman or from another world but because in certain moments it can be incredibly hard to do what’s right. That’s one of the key things that we’ll be playing with. The story is big. It’s going to be a sort of big eight issues feature and backup essentially. The backups are really going to explore his relationships as Clark and the features will be big and bombastic and fun. […]
Diana has a cameo in it so does the Justice League itself. But not because of what’s going on in those books but because I think she’s an important figure as an ally. It’s less about their romantic relationship in mine than it is literally about her point of view on what Superman should do at a key moment. […]
It’s definitely a Clark-centric story in that it’s not…the supporting cast plays a really big role. Out of it, Lois plays the biggest. She definitely has a key storyline to it. So, yeah, so far she’s in every issue with a moment that’s important to the story. She definitely is a really important voice to Clark as well in terms of…part of the story is about him trying how to decide if what’s he’s doing or what’s he’s done throughout the story is right or not and Lois plays a really key role. And I think in a emotional way: the real core movements of the story emotionally for him. And, I’m not talking about emotional in a love/friendship way but more an ethical/philosophical viewpoint.
The thing that fascinates me about Lois to Superman I guess to get at it is in a lot of ways she represents to him what inspires him about humanity in a lot ways. No matter what she’ll go for the truth. No matter what she’ll do what’s right. Even if it means going up against tremendous odds. That isolation and loneliness that that brings to Lois to it means going up against her father it means going up the Planet, going up against people who will kill her. It’s something that he looks at and it makes him think about humanity the way he wants to. He gives us room to do the right thing instead of doing what he thinks is the right thing for the planet. So for me she’s very much like a North star for that for him.
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Things aren't looking good for SM/WW romance.
Some new old news:
Five years ago Mark Waid almost got the Editor in Chief job. Which fell through for unknown reasons, but would've been great, Waid's a good editor.
Originally posted by abhilegend
Scott snyder talks about supermanhttp://1979semifinalist.podomatic.com/
The most important part is this however.
[b]I really like stories that alienate him not because he’s an alien himself physically or because he has this weird power set, but because sometimes doing the right thing is lonely. And I think in a lot of ways that’s what connects him to Lois as well, you know, and part of what we’re getting at (and to Luthor!). So that sense of alienation not because he’s Superman or from another world but because in certain moments it can be incredibly hard to do what’s right. That’s one of the key things that we’ll be playing with. The story is big. It’s going to be a sort of big eight issues feature and backup essentially. The backups are really going to explore his relationships as Clark and the features will be big and bombastic and fun. […]
Diana has a cameo in it so does the Justice League itself. But not because of what’s going on in those books but because I think she’s an important figure as an ally. It’s less about their romantic relationship in mine than it is literally about her point of view on what Superman should do at a key moment. […]
It’s definitely a Clark-centric story in that it’s not…the supporting cast plays a really big role. Out of it, Lois plays the biggest. She definitely has a key storyline to it. So, yeah, so far she’s in every issue with a moment that’s important to the story. She definitely is a really important voice to Clark as well in terms of…part of the story is about him trying how to decide if what’s he’s doing or what’s he’s done throughout the story is right or not and Lois plays a really key role. And I think in a emotional way: the real core movements of the story emotionally for him. And, I’m not talking about emotional in a love/friendship way but more an ethical/philosophical viewpoint.
The thing that fascinates me about Lois to Superman I guess to get at it is in a lot of ways she represents to him what inspires him about humanity in a lot ways. No matter what she’ll go for the truth. No matter what she’ll do what’s right. Even if it means going up against tremendous odds. That isolation and loneliness that that brings to Lois to it means going up against her father it means going up the Planet, going up against people who will kill her. It’s something that he looks at and it makes him think about humanity the way he wants to. He gives us room to do the right thing instead of doing what he thinks is the right thing for the planet. So for me she’s very much like a North star for that for him.
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Things aren't looking good for SM/WW romance. [/B]
How did you get that from what he said?