ChichiriMuyo posted... Marvel Comics losing talent over "creative differences" is nothing new. The upside is that they have the ability to attract most of the new talent that comes into the business by the simple fact that they're Marvel. I'm sure they'll get some really good talent on the X-Men in like 5 years or so, about the time when they might actually have room in their lineup for X-Men movies.
The X-Men line languished for a good ten years after the last big name departure. And while it's true that Marvel and DC can pull in new talent with ease, the market continues to dwindle and the focus continues to lay in capitalizing on new characters and storylines through film and television. Marvel continuously trading Mark Waid and Brian Bendis-types back and forth for the last ten years or so has done very little to inject new interest into comics. Yes, there are outliers, but the market continues to stagnate and decrease in overall readership because what had worked in the past is eschewed in favor of, like Hero said, brand synergy.
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