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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
I would too if another writer showed such blatant disrespect for my work only a few years after I left a title. I’m surprised you don’t see it more with how some writers have treated their predecessors’ work; like it’s genuinely shocking Al Ewing had the self-control to not go “what the fuck” publicly at how Donny Cates handled Hulk after he left.
Edited by immortaleditor on Nov 7th 2023 at 6:12:12 AM
Well Hulk isn't really his character and Immortal Hulk ended with all the toys back in the toybox so to speak.
Plus I think Ewing and Cates are decent collaborators together so I don't think Ewing would hold anything against him.
Edited by slimcoder on Nov 7th 2023 at 6:18:16 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."That's work for hire. God Does Not Own This World, and everyone acknowledges that Marvel can do what they want with the characters.
Best case, there's an informal agreement (as with Gaiman's Sandman work at DC), that the company won't trash the creator's stories if they want to continue working with them.
True, but there’s a definite difference between “one writer doesn’t have all the say in what the next writer does with this book” and “the next writer goes out of his way to shit on the prior writer’s work”.
Admittedly, there are times where the latter actually comes off as justified because the predecessor was REALLY BAD. Which goes to show it’s a messy subject.
I believe it's this run with the reveal that what ultimately destroyed their relationship is that Eddie accidentally killed a kid while drunk driving.
While Eddie wanted to confess his dad forced him to day he's innocent to the point of slamming his face on table in the police station to get him to agree to say it.
After that the resulting financial bills from the court cases left him bankrupt and forever resenting Eddie.
He's also a shitty grandpa since he also beats his grandson Dylan, at one point the kid is seen sporting a black eye and an armcast.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."She’s still dead, she just had the kid before she died and gave him to Eddie’s father to raise.
Though Anne is technically back in the form of the alternate universe version of the Beyond arc who kept the symbiote and became Venom full time in place of Eddie of her world.
Edited by slimcoder on Nov 7th 2023 at 7:35:20 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."I guess nobody is really dead if you count the infinite multiverse
Look how many Gwens we have now
Forever liveblogging the AvengersTo elaborate a bit: Originally Eddie’s dad WAS just neglectful and emotionally abusive, as he resented Eddie for his wife’s death in childbirth and sought every excuse to disown him (which he took when the Sin-Eater incident happened). He was also a wealthy man. Dark Origin — amongst many other continuity errors — instead portrayed Carl as a middle class suburbanite who was still emotionally abusive. Cates retconned in physical abuse for some reason but also invented the “Eddie accidentally killed a kid while drunk driving and Carl bankrupted himself covering it up” backstory to arc weld the two contradictory portrayals of Carl.
It's funny how some fans dislike adaptations like the recent Insomniac game making Harry Venom when Eddie ripped off Harry's backstory and is even given the "best friend turned evil" story in some adaptations.
Brian might be the worst of them all
He merged with turbo Satan to try to bodyjack his own son
Forever liveblogging the AvengersBrian takes Never My Fault to the most extreme level physically attainable by a human being. His soul is literally burning at the very bottom layer of Hell and he still maintains that he did nothing wrong, insists that he doesn’t deserve any punishment, and that he’s not evil for teaming up with two different Super-Satans to try and get back to Earth.
Brian Banner, the dad of Bruce Banner and effectively the Anthropomorphic Personification of abusive fathers with how awful he is.
Believe it or not, Ross is a Nice Guy in comparison to Brian, who is so awful that the one time the two met, Ross made abundantly clear he found Brian utterly disgusting.

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Which I believe is why Bunn took a sabbatical from Marvel for a while.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."