Mark Waid, via Twitter: Annnnd today was the day I stopped reading super-hero comics

[GrandeMaestro Fünke]

of course he is.

So he didn't like Irredeemable? Or doesn't get the Boys. I don't see your angle.

I may have worded that poorly. I meant he's not shitting on a specific creator from the big 2 by naming the book. Unless I'm missing something and it's super obvious.

[Buk Was Right]

How so?

In the last 5 years I have had a couple times where I thought I was done with the genre because it was not offering me enough worthwhile to stay, and I was getting tired of the illusion of change aspect. Nothing about any creator, could just be that he has had his fill.

I think Bendis's point is that by making a blanket statement about "super-hero comics" you are, by default, talking about "the big two".

Yes. I know. There are a TON of super-hero comics outside Marvel and DC, but when you generalize about super-hero comics you are almost definitely talking about Marvel and DC.

[BENDIS!]

How so?

In the last 5 years I have had a couple times where I thought I was done with the genre because it was not offering me enough worthwhile to stay, and I was getting tired of the illusion of change aspect. Nothing about any creator, could just be that he has had his fill.

You're not a name creator in the industry. Don't worry, I will bring this all up at our panel together in sd

[Jason California]

You're not a name creator in the industry. Don't worry, I will bring this all up at our panel together in sd

gotcha. Will look forward to it.

[Trey Krimsin]

So, when do we get the Mark Waid/Alan Moore contest to see who's the most irritable comic creator?

[Artie Pink]

Waid is bitching about other people's books because there's a "cynicism to many of them that I find exhausting and mean-spirited and uninspiring and life-denying"?

This from the guy who's crapping out Irredeemable, a book where the Superman-figure is murdering other heroes and their families? Frying small children alive?

Yeesh.

[Jason California]

I guess this means he will never write Superman now.

[Artie Pink]

I guess this means he will never write Superman now.

On behalf of Superman readers: Whew!

[Mwstattel]

The big 2 leave a lot to be desired right now but I don't see why an announcement has to be made about it. Read shit and enjoy it or just read something else.

[Superior Kiai]

You're not a name creator in the industry. Don't worry, I will bring this all up at our panel together in sd

Fuck it. Now I have to go.