Much like politics part of the problem for young up and comers has been the old guard holding on for way too long. Lee himself is guilty of not passing the torch very well.
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AdamSMessingerApr 4, 2026
+1
Well tbh, the superstar writer really took spotlight precedent in the eyes of fans after the era of the Image guys. It’s nice to see fans shift back a little more towards uplifting the importance of the artist. It would seem like an obvious thing in a visual medium but the majority of fans haven’t elevated artists as rockstars for a long time. If they had, Marvel wouldn’t be paying their artist’s shit rates.
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WhiskeyTApr 5, 2026
+1
> superstar writer really took spotlight precedent in the eyes of fans after the era of the Image guys
Right, partly because the “Image guys” did a poor job of promoting the next class of artists to the that *Superstar* level. They turned around and treated the new crop the way Marvel treated them.
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uuajskdokfoApr 5, 2026
+3
Really? Absolute Batman is still tied way more to Scott Snyder’s reputation than Dragotta’s.
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Top_Report_4895Apr 4, 2026
+2
>“Certainly in the ‘90s, artists and Image artist ruled the land,” says Lee, who lived through the artist reign of the 1990s and has been the DC chief since 2010, first as co-publisher and then sole publisher. He has seen the vagaries of the comic industry ebb and flow, including the rise of the writer class. Lee described the current state as a “getting back to a balance where both artists and writers are driving sales, driving fans.”
>The return of the artist as superstar “is good for the business, it is good for the artform,” he says.
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atarijpb19694 days ago
+1
Nice to see comics generating some interest again!
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