Your secret's safe with me. ;) I think the Marvel method can work wonders if the team is right for it. Aja and Fraction, for example, were pretty perfect together like that. But then Fraction and Zdarsky seem to have a different working relationship, and that works for them. Having a "house style" that doesn't…

That's a really great point. He's written some stuff that I genuinely enjoyed and some stuff I wasn't a fan of…but neither of those things makes him a good or bad person, it just seems like that's how he interprets it.

If you like Doctor Who, I'd suggest picking up Slott's Silver Surfer. It feels like lost Who episodes from the mid 2000's.

It happened to me in the middle of the #FireRickRemender debacle last year, and I wasn't getting death threats or anything (unlike a lot of other female comic readers) so it sort of fizzled out. Honestly, getting harassed and threatened by guys on the internet is so normal now that i know a lot of people who don't…

Have you picked up his Silver Surfer at all? No one else I know is/was reading it so I'd love to hear some thoughts if you've got any.

That could very well be true, honestly. All of the people I know who have interacted with him are women, so that could also explain the difference maybe? (Unless I'm making an assumption about you that's incorrect, for which I apologize.) I mean seriously, the guy came on to a blog post I wrote and spent two days…

He has a tendency to follow his own name on the internet and harass fans (including me, previously) when they discuss issues with his writing. When criticized he always responds really badly and in some cases his own fans take things too far in an attempt to defend him. He's just generally a jerk to people.

I couldn't agree with you more, for the most part. I think that relationships like Ryan North and Erica Henderson or Brenden Fletcher/Cameron Stewart and Babs Tarr are the future of the industry: collaberative teams that know each other well and work like a well oiled machine manufacturing everything at once rather…

Yeah I agree…then again Image is upping their investment in Brubaker and Remender and a whole slew of other names that frankly don't need the kind of marketing and publishing support that they get in order to sell books. Don't get me wrong, I love Wytches, but Snyder's name is gonna sell books no matter who prints it.

You're right, I should have clarified that I was talking specifically about their current line up, which has changed recently.

But Fraction pretty clearly isn't exclusive, given his work at Image lately. And Soule has been working on Swamp Thing while he was working on She-Hulk and Thunderbolts, so I'm not sure how he could have an exclusive contract?

She was part of Legends of Red Sonja and will be in Swords of Sorrow this summer, plus her new creator owned Monstress. I'll keep you appraised of release dates. ;)

Writing? No. Drawing? I believe so. Editing/designing? Yup.

I trust Dan Slott about as far as I can throw Galactus. Also the link below is a picture of the retreat with Fraction front and center, who was not Marvel-exclusive at the time.

Image sells more TPBs and GNs per month than Marvel. There are monthly title sales that outstrip DC and Marvel. But Image is still mostly hiring white dudes telling stories about white dudes. Bitch Planet is an outlier, for sure, but I feel like Southern Bastards is a great example: well-liked book with a lot of…

That's the excuse that Brevoort gave, but there were male writers there that are not exclusive.

She's also been working with Gail Simone on Legends of Red Sonja and Swords of Sorrow.

I called it "Orange is the New Riddick" and that seems to be fairly accurate…and, at least coming from me, a huge compliment.

Marvel and DC do not accept unsolicited scripts or art, and neither can any of their employees. It's all who the company chooses to pursue, and then (when the inevitable happens) support with both marketing and editorial choices that make sense. Marguerite Benett's brief work on Lobo is a great example of what goes…

Image has a much larger issue with diversity than both Marvel and DC, both in terms of hiring practices and characters. They tell great stories, but there's no greater amount of true diversity there than in "The Big Two." Let's be real…it's "The Big Three" now.