When Bad Signal stumbled into my inbox sometime over the weekend I was marginally disappointed to see that Ellis had decided his time on Thunderbolts had come to a close.
The only reason I picked up that title in the first place had to do with his name on the cover. His immanent departure means that I can safely drop this title with no remorse, which goes perfectly with the theme of yesterdays post.
No harm, no foul.
So I was a bit surprised to see that a couple of other blogs that I browse chose to take him to task over his decision. Apparently the recent Siegel ruling on the ownership of the Superman trademark made Warren’s whole creator ownership angle in his email particularly relevant. Some people found his tone arrogant, others questioned the viability of some of the other pro-creator rights names he dropped.
My two cents.
If Warren has the power, influence and pocketbook to be able to survive on only doing brief stints at the mainstream publishers, good on him. He’s fairly straight up when he says that working for Marvel bumped up some of his numbers on his old material. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to own the rights to your own characters in your personal sandbox and making a buck at the same time playing in the sandboxes of others, that’s his right too.
As long as there’s a market for his work and someone is willing to pay him for it, he’s free to write for whomever he wants for whatever length of time he wants to do so.
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