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Message: [QUOTE="miguk, post: 66328, member: 1510"] I always interpreted that, along with Image being just artists from the start, as being "artist control" instead of "creator control." McFarlane never struck me as sincere about wanting everyone doing the work to be equal, and he showed in his decades long legal battle with Gaiman that he didn't. Well, aping Miller isn't 100% bad. TMNT did a great job of it. But TMNT actually got Miller's work more than most did, arguably including Miller himself. (In his later years, the guy's attempts at ironically aping himself didn't even come close the the quality that Eastman & Laird produced). But trying to use Miller's style completely seriously is a bad move, considering that, even at his best, he came close to making his work unlikable. (You know, because of [URL='https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Nl619iTe--/1320473834069285551.png']his habits[/URL].) A less talented writer would do worse with it. Well, the industry was edging closer and closer to that point, partially because of McFarlane and Liefeld's pre-Image work, as well as others who didn't get what Moore was going for with [I]Watchmen[/I]. But [I]Spawn[/I] seemed to be the breaking point, where style finally won over substance, [I]Venom[/I] outsold [I]Spider-man[/I], and Superman died. [/QUOTE]

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