[quote=@AndyC]
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At this point, screw "the industry."  Marvel's too busy hiring YA novel authors, Image has become "Here's my failed pitch for a screenplay that I'm passing off as a comic" the company, and DC decided to squander all their goodwill by hiring Brian Michael "Let's take Mary Jane away from Spider-Man and put her in Iron Man's book where she'll do absolutely nothing for three years" Bendis on Superman.  If there's any hope at all for American comic books as a medium, it's going to be from independent creators sidestepping the big publishing houses and finding other ways to get their works to the public.
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I've been saying my dream job is to write comic books for a living for years, but I've yet to actually produce a single comic book (since I was nine years old) due to insecurities and resistance. But I decided about a month and a half ago that I was going to make an earnest effort to get at least one issue of a six issue limited series published within a year so that I can actually make some headway on that dream. Progress is subpart, but progress has been made and I'm proud of that.