Millarworld wonders just whatever happened to their favorite creators, anyway…?:
“lobdell was one of favourite x-scribes back in the day (probably due to the fact that he was writing them when i started collecting) but how come when he left he never went on to write another franchise book for anyone? what was the cause of that? with kelly i guess he never really fell from grace after great stints on deadpool and x-men, and even jla, but what has he done lately?”
“The ultimate creator-falling-from-grace story has to be Chuck Austen (not that I’m complaining). He went from being everywhere at Marvel, Uncanny X-Men, Exiles, New X-Men, X-Men, Avengers then jumped to DC and did one of the Superman titles (and JLA?) and then he disappeared after he ‘fired’ himself from his creator owned title. Oh well.”
“Whatever happened to Christopher Priest? Did he leave of his own accord or was he pushed or just ignored?”
“Ron Zimmerman, IIRC, left comics because the Internet was mean to him. Seriously.”
January 28th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
What? Has no one asked Priest at his own blog?
January 28th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
“how come when he left he never went on to write another franchise book for anyone? what was the cause of that?”
Probably because he got a rep as unable to finish his scripts on time: I can list PLENTY of Lobdell books that have him just credited on “plot”- even creator owned projects.
January 28th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Joe Kelly is busy with Steven Seagle, Joe Casey and Duncan Rouleau working on Ben 10 for Cartoon Network. (They’re all credited with creating/writing the show.)
January 31st, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Favorite creators get shoved aside because there is need to bring in television writer because television writers are the best writers there are. Haven’t you seen all the successful, long running television series? Why, there must be hundreds of them. Or dozens of them. Well, at least a few. But them television writers are th bestest writers ever.