You know, I’d actually get a Byrne Guardians of the Galaxy. If he approached it the same way he did the Omac mini back in the nineties, it could be pretty good.

Like every great hypocrit the evil empire isn’t all that bad when all the other work dries up.

I can’t describe how much I agree with David Brothers.

I don’t think it’s hypocrisy - it’s more a hypothetical question, and it’s also possibly a result of the rumours that Jeph Loeb will be replacing Joe Quesada as Marvel EiC. Byrne’s beef is with Joe Q - he’s not going to return to Marvel while Joe remains in charge.

Apparently Byrne’s got a JLA: Classified in the pipeline with Roger Stern, so it’s not like the DC work’s dried up. I’ve also heard that Byrne’s been offered quite a few DC gigs, but turned them down in favour of doing commissions and such.

What gets me is that guys like Bob Layton are also taking this kind of approach (Layton didn’t do a lot of Marvel work for ages due to an incident with Joe Q over the ‘Iron Man: Bad Blood’ series), and yet no-one gives him the same kind of bad press. I don’t know the guy personally, but this ‘Byrne Bashing Bandwagon’ is getting really old, really fast.

“What gets me is that guys like Bob Layton are also taking this kind of approach (Layton didn’t do a lot of Marvel work for ages due to an incident with Joe Q over the ‘Iron Man: Bad Blood’ series), and yet no-one gives him the same kind of bad press. I don’t know the guy personally, but this ‘Byrne Bashing Bandwagon’ is getting really old, really fast.”

Well, It’d be my guess why that is so, is because:
1) Bryne is more known than Lyton
2) Byrne has an ongoing, very popular message board. As far as I know, Layton does it.
3) On that message board, in his own typed words, Byrne can come across as mean, petty and angry. Sometimes a justified response to a poster, other times he’s just rude.
Layton, not having this daily exposure on a message board, is often out-of-sight, out-of-mind to the press.

“If I went back to Marvel, what would I do, assuming something that I had not done before, and assuming an environment in which I could do what I felt should be done, and not be weighed down by the latest “fixes”.”

Well, that’s obvious - you’d start applying your own fixes.

The Byrne - Layton comparison is really out of whack.

Layton never boycotted Marvel, last I heard he was working on a new Iron Man book for them.

Byrne didn’t make repeated STUPID/offensive statements regarding racial slurs, Christopher Reeve, the Crocodile Hunter, Superhero nick names, comic retailers, etc.

There is a whole lot of stuff that Byrne has done that Layton hasn’t. The two shouldn’t be compared at all.