QUOTE: So there's the "real" line, the Ultimate line, and now the Marvel Adventures line

Don't forget the  #%#&#&'ing Max line.

I don't mind Marvel canabilizing their product with different lines as much as what they do within Marvel proper.   The Marvel universe has turned into Wolverine and his Amazing Fiends.

QUOTE: that is exactly what Marvel is currently doing. They hire writers to write their comics who are either currently critically acclaimed,popular,and/or big name celebrity writers from other entertainment fields outside of comics (Hollywood screenwriters,novelist,and play writers). Despite the fact that most of those writers either have no experience in writing comics,can't stick to a deadline,or have no interest in writing superhero comics as ACTUAL superhero comics.

I don't understand this animosity at all.  Is there some sort of requirement test for comic writers?  A lot of the top job getting writers have spent a lot of time in the minors (independants).  I also don't see how being a writer in one form of entertainment, disqualifies someone from another.  If the work is good, people will buy it, if not, they won't. 

QUOTE: Then you don't understand the animosity towards badly written comics.

Sure I do, I spent $15.00 on the first six issues of Lab Rats.

I ask this of everyone.

You walk away from a company because you don't like the way you were being treated. You also did not like the way the company was being run or the direction managment was taking the company. You then find employment for various other companies and you have steady work for the next seven years. Would you call the old company back and look for work again? Even if the company has made no forward movement in tyring to hire you back. Even if the company has made no change in the direction it was run. Even if you are still making a living in your chosen profession. Is it so far fetched that a person would stand by their principles and not ask or beg for a job that may or may not be given to them?

I'd love for JB to be doing something with Marvel. But I respect that he does not want to work for a company that he doesn't support. Can things change? Sure. But if Marvel really wants JB to work for them they should really make the first move. He is the person not happy with the company and they should be the ones reassuring him that things are different. JB offered Marvel a challenge to see if they could do something different. Breevort's response shows that nothing yet has changed.

I read an issue of the Teen Titans where Wonder dog eats Marvin and Wendy, an issue of Final Crisis where Mary Marvel is a bondange clown and some wanky doofus is trying to persuade me that the anti-life equation is bad high school notebook poetry disguised as math, and I also read three issues of Civil War where nobody was in character and that was topped off by WWHulk....

To me it's vomit.

Wow.  Simply, wow.

There we go. The Basher comes out, eventually.

Ooooohhhhh....a blistering retort. Mr. Palm has surely been put in his place.