Comments on: The sad, strange tale of Dwayne McDuffie

By: Victor

Victor — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:32:03 +0000

Its definitely brutal but come on…This is the GIG. You are writing half century old characters owned by multinational coperate interests and managed by middle aged fan-boys. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? Dude seriously if you want to express yourself creatively write your own novel on the side with your own characters or hell…self publish a creator owned ashcan. Do not expect to get your jones of on charaters you DID NOT CREATE OR OWN. You complain about getting paid A LOT of money to write comic scripts because you are being heavily supervised? Are you kidding me? Enjoy the fact that all you have to do is connect the dots others have made for you and revel in the things you are allowed to create. If you are only allowed to freely script one fight scene make it the coolest damn fight scene ever. Publically “exposing” your colleagues is not cool. He should have just took it in stride with some humor and humility got paid had fun and kept it moving. Instead he got sad bitter and fired.

By: lunchcountersitin

lunchcountersitin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:08:36 +0000

FYI, J. Michael Straczynski has quit the Thor book over disagreements concerning creative control.

Apparently, Marvel wanted to tie Thor into the rest of the Marvel Univ (Dark Reign?), and Straczynski felt he wasn’t flexible enough to handle that demand.

So it’s not just a DC thing.

By: DDSmitty

DDSmitty — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:15:26 +0000

Damn shame I can’t read JLA anymore. Ah well, I guess I can go watch my JLU DVDs again and dream of what could have been.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:26:37 +0000

I was very disappointed by the news, I was really enjoying McDuffie’s JLA Dissembled series. I’m done with this book. McDuffie obviously cared a lot about the series and he was no more critical than other writers have been.

By: Faceman

Faceman — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:38:47 +0000

McDuffie is a fine writer who wrote many great stories on Justice League cartoon. He should not have been fired for expressing his opinions. The editorial reigns at DC are not communicating and not giving the fans what they want. I, for one, do not like ongoing series like JLA being interfered with other company events. Something needs to be done at DC because Marvel is beating them with some really bad storylines. I have always liked Dan Didio’s energy and enthusiasm but it seems he can be pretty bullheaded on what he wants and not what the fan wants. I have been a life long Justice League fan and I want to see a consistant creative team and a good mix a “A and B” characters, preferably not named Batman abd Superman who already have way too much exposure.

By: Selvokaz

Selvokaz — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:23:30 +0000

@Jacob, well think about it for a second, if a writer can only use part of his ideas for his reminding time on a book how can you blame them for it not being up to whatever you standard it is. Do you know what the stories were going to be like had editorial not shut down his ideas before he could even get them to print?

By: Why McDuffie got fired from JLA?

Why McDuffie got fired from JLA? — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:22:05 +0000

[...] Source: ComicsCritics.com [...]

By: Wally East

Wally East — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:12:37 +0000

@Sequential Minded Thanks! I’ll have to go looking for that.

By: Sequential Minded

Sequential Minded — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:13:57 +0000

That was funny….even if we have the face the sadness that this is how the comic industry runs.

@Wally East
Wonder Woman lead the JLA without Batman or Superman in the late 90’s just before Morrison’s run on the book

@MrGBH
I understand what you are saying, I think this is the reason why most of my fav runs on JLA have been when they have fewer the big name characters on the team.

By: The Wicker Man

The Wicker Man — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:04:41 +0000

Wow, McDuffie really got people behind him.

But really, the guy SHOULD have been fired for what happened. It would happen in any other profession. He couldn’t have possibly been that surprised.