Didn't have the time or patience to read the entire article, but a basic glaring point pops up early on: Civil War the book was published in 2006-2007 , and Sandy Hook didn't happen till 2012. The causal argument is facile, as Civil War - in historical context - was much more about whether , after a tragedy like,…

3 years and he produces a mediocre at best piece of jetsam? That's working hard??

Please. A hammer would Hurt me !
… I have a baseball Bat. Would that be preferable to paying to see whats-his-name and Sizzurp-mon?

And is a shot for shot remake of an already existing, already well recieved cult classic.

Closer to Trump , I'd say. Leifeld can neither draw nor write.
He created Image Comics because of that Spike Lee directed LEE Jeans commercial, and got lucky financially.

The record shows undeniably that they greenlit Goyer's very loose script treatment - which Snyder then went in whole hog with, with only his own revisions.

The Super Pets show up in World's Funnest as well (described above) =)

"World's Funnest" remains one of my favorite comics DC ever produced, in which the two fight and destroy Every iteration of the DCU ever concieved.
Writer Evan Dorkin (of indie comics' 'DORK' fame) recruited the actual artists including Dave Gibbons, Frank Miller, George Perez etc (even Alex Ross is in there,…