What big name Marvel talent is jumping ship for DC?

[NightBeetle]

The tease from Rich Johnson @Bleeding Cool...

1. Now that DC Entertainment looks like it may take a more aggressive role in the marketplace, look for the battle of the exclusives will kick up again. Marvel and DC will stake their claim with exclusive contracts. In fact expect very early news of a major DC scalp ripped from Marvel’s central talent to work on one of their big guns in the next few days…

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/01/01/five-for-2010/

On the Bleeding Cool forums people were also speculating that Jason Aaron was the creator in question. Rich jumped on to say that it is someone much bigger...

Who do you think it'll be?

 

[hippie_hunter]

The only ones that I can think of are Mark Millar, Dan Slott, or Ed Brubaker. I can't see anyone else at all jumping ship at Marvel. Especially Bendis or PAD.

I can't think of an artist likely to jump ship either. And the only artists that can be considered to be a major blow against Marvel by DC taking them would be JR, Jr. or Ed McGuinness (who only works for Loeb, so I don't see him leaving).

 

[fifthfiend]

I can see Slott or Brubaker maybe. Millar gets to do whatever the **** he wants and has a say in what gets done in the movies, I can't imagine why he'd give that up. Slott and Brubaker do good work and all but it's not like they're holding the keys to the company or anything.

Maybe Millar would jump if they gave him Superman, but he'd have to knife-fight Johns for it first.

 

[hippie_hunter]

It sounds more like Robinson is in control of Superman than Johns. Johns is too busy with Flash and Green Lantern to play an integral role in Superman.

 

[Saved]

Warren Ellis, maybe? Just throwing another name out there.

 

[WompuM]

Brubaker on Batman? Can retell his Cap run? Wait, nevermind.

 

[fifthfiend]

It sounds more like Robinson is in control of Superman than Johns. Johns is too busy with Flash and Green Lantern to play an integral role in Superman.

He'd still knife-fight Millar for it, though.

 

[hippie_hunter]

He'd still knife-fight Millar for it, though.

DC would give Millar Superman over Robinson in a heartbeat after War of the Supermen.

Millar is a great man for ideas his problem lies in execution and characterization. If he can succeed in execution and prevent every character coming off as an *******, I think he can have a great run.

 

[fifthfiend]

And if I can succeed in ****ting solid gold bricks I can tell my boss to go **** himself.

 

[Motown Marvel]

i would love for brubaker to be back at DC. bendis would be really cool, but that just isnt gonna happen.

 

[Saved]

i would love for brubaker to be back at DC. bendis would be really cool, but that just isnt gonna happen.

Definently agree.

 

[Anubis]

Bendis would be really cool for sales. Bendis doing Bendis things on DC Books however? That's some horrible s**t right there.

 

[CrimsonMist]

Brubaker with Sean Philips or Michael Lark on Batman...I'd love to see that. Gotham Central was awesome and Brubaker has only gotten better since then. But Grant Morrison seems to be in control of that at the moment.

Also, the article mentions the possibility of intercompany cross-overs. I want Bendis and Brubaker's Batman/Daredevil crossover!!

 

[Hound55]

Bendis would be really cool for sales. Bendis doing Bendis things on DC Books however? That's some horrible s**t right there.

Agreed.

 

[Hound55]

Wouldn't mind seeing Finch for something Batman personally...

 

[Drz]

I don't know should we trust Bleeding Cool as a source. Anyhow Warren Ellis to my knowledge hates exclusive contracts. He does his own comics to what? Astro comics company? Then his other comics for Marvel/DC and so on.

Mark Millar is doing alot of stuff for Icon (Marvel) with Kick-Ass and the upcoming Nemesis, lets not forget Ultimate Avengers aswell.

Bendis... I don't know why would he really leave? Brubaker? I dunno either.

 

[Saved]

Bendis isn't a possibility because he's too stuck on Powers and Ultimate Spider-Man to just jump ship.

Millar ... like you said, Drz, he's seems to involved himself at the moment to go back to DC. He's finishing one project, continuing another, and starting a new one. Unless they got McNiven too, I don't feel like he's going anywhere this year.

Brubaker is definently a possibility. He finished his run on Daredevil. He's the listed writer for Captain America 604, which has a March release. However, I noticed Sean McKeever is also listed as a writer for the book so ... did he leave DC overnight? Cause last I saw he was Teen Titan's writer.

JMS already went to DC, which I wasn't aware of until last December, so that took me off guard a bit. So he's obviously not a canidate.

I doubt given Loeb's recent work they'd want him back. Not worthy paying a guy who's had negative feedback recently.

Jason Aaron could be a possibility as far as I know. I believe he finished his latest stuff at Marvel.

Andy Diggle isn't really a 'major' writer at Marvel. Not yet, anyway.

Joe Kelly or Mark Waid being taken back to DC seem like possibilities to me also. As well as some other various writers from the Spider-Man brain trust.

 

[RockSP]

Brubaker is definently a possibility. He finished his run on Daredevil. He's the listed writer for Captain America 604, which has a March release. However, I noticed Sean McKeever is also listed as a writer for the book so ... did he leave DC overnight? Cause last I saw he was Teen Titan's writer.

He hasn't been the writer on Teen Titans for a few issues now. The new writer is Felicia Henderson. He's back at Marvel and wrote the recent Nomad: Girl Without a World mini. He'll also be writing the Nomad back up feature in Cap's comic.

 

[Cain]

If it's Bendis I just hope they don't put him on any of my favorite books cause if they do then it's time for me to stop buying comics for a few years.

 

[Watchman]

If the article is true, I'm going with Brubaker. I would have said Fraction but he seems tied up in Iron Man and X-Men for the time being.

Millar would jump ship in a heart beat to get to write Superman and I believe Robinson is pretty much done after War of the Supermen. Although, Millar has a bunch of movie pitches...I mean Icon work at Marvel.

We haven't heard of any of Brubaker's work post Reborn or Two Americas.

Or it could be an artist, Hitch maybe?

 

[Saved]

I just think it's funny that, at this point, every artist at Marvel has worked for DC already except for a handful.

On a related note, any news on Chuck Dixon's status?

 

[hippie_hunter]

Bendis isn't a possibility because he's too stuck on Powers and Ultimate Spider-Man to just jump ship.

And Spider-Woman, Avengers, Siege, and a new Alias series.

Millar ... like you said, Drz, he's seems to involved himself at the moment to go back to DC. He's finishing one project, continuing another, and starting a new one. Unless they got McNiven too, I don't feel like he's going anywhere this year.

Millar has Ultimate Comics: Avengers and Nemesis, he has room for some DC projects, but I don't think he'll be leaving anytime soon. Although he is no longer a Marvel exclusive from what I read.

Brubaker is definently a possibility. He finished his run on Daredevil. He's the listed writer for Captain America 604, which has a March release. However, I noticed Sean McKeever is also listed as a writer for the book so ... did he leave DC overnight? Cause last I saw he was Teen Titan's writer.

Yeah, DC pretty much let him go after people really didn't care for his run on Teen Titans and being unable to fulfill his Birds of Prey duties.

And the reason why Brubaker left DC was because he was considered to be one of their biggest writers but he wasn't given any big projects while Marvel gave him Captain America, Uncanny X-Men, and Daredevil. But considering that all of DC's major characters are taken for the long term I don't see him coming on board unless they give him something big or something he really wants to do.

 

[Watchman]

The more that I think about it I don't think it's going to be a writer. It's going to be an artist and I'm going with Hitch or Romita Jr.

 

[RockSP]

And the reason why Brubaker left DC was because he was considered to be one of their biggest writers but he wasn't given any big projects while Marvel gave him Captain America, Uncanny X-Men, and Daredevil. But considering that all of DC's major characters are taken for the long term I don't see him coming on board unless they give him something big or something he really wants to do.

Yeah I don't see Brubaker leaving. Besides writing Cap he's spoken on possible sequels to Marvels Project, and he also has his Icon books Criminal and Incognito (he could take those projects elsewhere since he owns them, but still...)

 

[hippie_hunter]

I don't see Hitch losing the ability to work with Mark Millar, for the most part he's his artist (along with Steve McNiven).

But asides from John Romita Jr, David Finch, and Frank Cho, what other artist is a part of Marvel's central talent that doesn't stick to one writer.