| Posted: 17 June 2009 at 3:36pm | IP Logged | 10
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If the risk they took in walking away was that if their new job didn't work out, they would be hired back by the same company but in a different position since somebody else had been hired to do their old job, that's not a risk. Any guy who quits a normal job in order to take a new one faces a greater risk, because being hired back if the new job fails is rarely an option.
McFarlane had even quit Marvel for a sabbatical before he joined Image, hadn't he? He may have jeopardized his future career by taking a break while he was "hot", but what chance did he take by going from not working to working for himself?
Sure, the Image boys gambled that if they went out on their own, the work would be more rewarding, either financially, creatively or in terms of autonomy. But if they always had the option of coming back, that's a safety net. And when the financial investments (aside from the creators' own labor) were made by Malibu, the Image creators had both a safety net and a security harness.
Far cry from the "you trip, you go splat" situation most of us face every time we change jobs. So risky? Compared to what? Eating strawberries is risky, you don't expect a standing ovation for that, do you? And stressing the"risk" you took when its so much less than the risk regular people take in similar situations is a poor argument.
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