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Actually, the Hine analogy's not a bad one to take further, Louise; several of the company's stable wrote independently published books (Bendis, Brubaker, Kirkman) and were regarded highly as fringe writers.
Now some sell a great deal more comics, but it is difficult to find a coherent endorsement of these latter works on franchises; solely in - I think - all of the above's cases, at the detriment of anything they (might) have created for themselves. Along with other hard to quantify ancillaries, like 'vision'.
In short - is Brian 'New Avengers' Bendis a better writer than B.M.'Torso' Bendis? I don't think so (Daredevil, otoh, I could make the argument..) I think his abilities - such as they are - suffer for having to write, from being assigned a certain kind of comic, and in this sense he is less of/is not a success.
There's other ways of framing the debate (e.g. a creator-owned title selling >20,000 copies is a success, a franchise comic selling at a similar level is liable to be cancelled,) but your singular position on success is daft, bud. Please give it up. |
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