I like how 90% of the reactions I've seen about this are "Okay cool. Can Spider-Man and MJ get back together now?" lol. I think that's what he's always going to be remembered for. I wish he stuck to drawing.
Joe Q, with One More Day, did with Charles Schultz did with Peanuts. Joe Q vented his personal life at Spider-Man. After One More Day happened, however, there was no way to undo it. There also seems to be a trend at both Marvel Comics and DC Comics to ruin married couples. Just look at what's happening currently with Clark Kent/Superman, where he's off in space while Lois Lane is still on Earth.
Just wrote an article going up on my site tonight basically stating this and his other failings aren't changing just because he's leaving any more than DC suddenly became better when DiDio left. He's only the face of these bad decisions, not the sole party responsible.
The quesada era of marvel comics was mostly good but that was because of the writers and not quesada himself,when he was more involved we got crap like one more day or that nyx crap.
Was it Joe Quesada who spent 3 days on twitter attacking Ya Boi Zack? Because that was weird AF for someone in his position to do. I mean, I can imagine Ron Marz or Heather Antos doing it, but the head of Marvel? Strange times.
@@InfamyOrDeath-__- Yeah he was trying to sound reasonable and adult, like he was trying to broker some peace between the "sides", but it was so clear he was being disingenuous and biased and quickly just turned into shitting on Zack while defending everything done on his side.
Marvel should have entered a new Golden Age with the wild success of the MCU. But instead of spending money to hire the best authors and artists, they decided to virtue signal to a group of people that don't like or even buy comics. They brought in talentless hacks with zero experience, who wrote wooden, unlikable characters and painfully woke crap that long time fans didn't ask for, and whose target audience didn't buy because they were never going to spend money on comics in the first place. Marvel cut it's own throat by letting in borderline sociopathic people like Heather Antos who spend more time lecturing fans on Twitter than she does trying to write stories fans would want to read.
I can’t speak to any of that since I stopped reading in disgust after Ultimates 3. Every time I browse in a comic shop I give up. Marvel needs real talent, real stories and great editors. MCU is great, the comics suck.
Love him or hate him, whatever concerns you may have about his role in the comics, can we all just please acknowledge that THIS IS THE WAY A GROWNUP RESIGNS FROM A JOB. It's scary that we need to recognize this, but there are way too many people "going public" with every petty little issue that they didn't like about their employer. Newsflash, future employers don't appreciate that kind of behavior.
I am a fan of Joe's art. If this brings more comics from him that would be great. Not sure I care about any movie he might make. When I look back at his early days as EIC I love a lot of the comics he was a part off. Marvel knights, the ultimate line. So many of those early 2000 comic runs are great reads. Bendis, Ennis, Millar, Brubaker, Smith and many other creators did amazing work under his leadership.
I feel like they drifted towards a focus on continuity and line-wide events starting with Civil War than taking creative chances. Constant editorial interference makes for less creativity. As a result, I feel there has been less definitive runs or versions of their characters. There has been a few, like Fraction and Aja’s Hawkeye, and maybe King and Walta’s Vision, Wilson and Alphona’s Ms. Marvel and the recent Immortal Hulk but it’s not as frequent as it used to be.
@@justinarzola5782 He's a mediocre artist at best the only thing he was known for in the 90's was ash and to this day I don't know anyone who actually owns that comic.
I was both surprised and happy reading this news. If this means we can finally get Peter Parker and Mary Jane's marriage back, hopefully never taking it back again, or doing anything like it, then that's brilliant. The only thing I will ever fervently dislike him for.
Deep down they know it would be great for sales, they just hate the idea that it would bring so many back. Validating that is why people left. And it representing a positive idea of marriage between a man and a woman.
@@MegaSpideyman I believe they actually hate the former audience that bought comics. Bringing sales back is a good thing. The current staff just doesn’t care. It is obvious they have an agenda, and most likely not held to a standard of selling units. In all likelihood the big two, as comic companies, are merely a tax write off due too loses for their parent companies. I believe the current staff loves the idea of destroying characters and concepts that we the OG comic patrons bought and enjoyed in comics.
Joe Q took things too far by applying his personal life to Marvel Comics with One More Day. He was going through a divorce, and then decided to vent by making Peter Parker's life into s***. I hope that Disney brings Peter Parker and Mary Jane back together, but Zeb Wells--who's currently writing The Amazing Spider-Man--has no intention of doing this.
I didn't know Quesada had a divorce and that influenced one more day. Reminds me of the drastic change to Jerry and Beth's relationship and the series in general in Rick and Morty because of co-creator Dan Harmon's divorce. I stopped watching after season 2.
There were 2 big creative mistakes Marvel made in the 2000s that seem to have been largely Quesada's doing. The first was M-Day, depowering the world's mutants and turning them into an endangered species for many years. Then there was One More Day. Both were disastrous for their respective franchises, and these are things Quesada will always be remembered for, even though for the most part he was a huge improvement over Bob Harris. The objective part of my brain says he was 100% right in ordering 'dead means dead' and it's a shame that didn't last, but at the same time I wouldn't be reading comics at all now if Magik wasn't brought back in the late 2000s.
The quesada era was when I really got into marvel comics as a kid in the 2000s,his creative decisions were dumb but we got good stuff from bendis and brubaker.
@@tomcruisenukedmyaccount5388 i actually can see why you did M day, At some point mutants would outnumber regular people in the comic and they will lose any touch of being close to real world, Of course they may be running into that issue with too many superpower heroes particular omega level. So in a way i can see where he was coming from but his mistake was destroying so many establish mutants particular fan favorite. No more muntants could simply had been no more muntants being born. So instead of reducing the amount of mutant (which make no mistake. No more mean they shouldn't be any) it just mean no new mutants. As for spiderman. The man is into his 30's and you want to revert him to a go lucky, talkative teen? they were better way to remove the couple then simple having the devil do it. I don't mind fridge her but they are ways.
I think we go through this every time there's a leadership change. People get their hopes up that the company will suddenly pivot into something "better" but they usually just stay the course. I'm guessing that these decisions come from higher up the chain.
I doubt anyone except the most diehard thinks Marvel will magically turn around because of Quesada's departure. We've already been through this rodeo many times in the past (Axel Alonso to CB Cebulski, Kathleen Kennedy Star Wars, J.J. Star Trek, Battlefield w/Cyborg Chick, TLOU2, many recent Marvel movies & TV shows, DCEU, Dr. Who, etc., etc.) with nothing changing or things getting worse. Whatever. Who cares? What we're really waiting for is a Netflix moment, where the company tells all the activist employees to go suck dirt, or a Twitter (upcoming) moment where Musk will take over and start a Night of the Long Knives.
I'd be more optimistic about this, if we didn't see something similar happen with Didio at DC. Although you keep hoping things will get better, that's rarely the case. Things can always get worse. I hope I'm wrong.
My thoughts on Quesada's legacy - He did alot of good with the Ultimate Universe with Jemas, The Max imprint & Marvel knights with jimmy Palmaotti. Also, he did brought a new wave of talent in the early 00s. Now for the negative. About OMD, people can complain about that all they want. But for me, it's a part of a larger negative trend started with Guardian Devil with the death of Karen Page. Which says, heroes cannot be allowed to be happy, cannot be in stable relationships. this also resulted in the 2nd death of Jean & temporary death of Janet Van Dyne. Also, starting with Disassembled, he brought an endless wave of events that eventually created a sense of instability & interrupted stories in other titles. Also, most of these events were either heroes vs other heroes or heroes being hunted down which resulted in a unnecessary grim tone for the MU. All in all, I do wish him best but his legacy is very mixed in my eyes.
@@ahmadarsenal1996 the reason why Quesada changed the reveal of Sins Past is that he didn't want Peter to come across as a bad role model by saying he had premarital sex in his college years.
From Zeb Wells' first issue of The Amazing Spider-Man, he's going to make One More Day look like a walk in the park. There's foreshadowing that something really, really bad is going to happen to Aunt May--again. After cyborg Moira MacTaggert is done with Mary Jane, Mary Jane is never going to be the same again. (Note: Moira MacTaggert's latest life is an evil cyborg. To sneak into X-Men Gala 2022, cyborg Moira is going to steal Mary Jane's appearance. I've heard that cyborg Moira steals identities by wearing their skin. If that's the case, cyborg Moira is going to skin Mary Jane alive...leaving Mary Jane horribly disfigured.)
As someone who grew up on comics in the late 90s and early 00s, I want to back up what you said about how highly regarded Joe Q was at the time. He was the face of a beloved renaissance that was Marvel Knights and the Ultimate line. He was bold, creative, talented... and loved the characters. Some of today’s comics community - both the creators and “reporters” - seem to think comics have only been around for 5 years. There is a long history here with Joe. One that started out with a LOT of good choices and a lot of great comics. I had the tremendous opportunity to intern at Marvel under Joe. He found a high school kid who was extremely passionate about comics and gave me a shot to be a part of things on the inside. I got to see his passion, leadership, and creativity firsthand in the Marvel offices. I don’t want to go down this rabbit hole too far, but I was there in the middle of the JMS years on Spider-Man, amongst many other things. While I agree with the majority of fans that breaking up Peter and MJ was absolutely the wrong move, if you do a little digging, he really believed it was the right call from a story perspective. More importantly, and so frustratingly, no one got to see what JMS was like to work with behind the scenes. As much as I still hate the choice to break up Peter and MJ, I honestly hate the heat that Joe Q takes for HOW it went down more. Joe made the choice, but if you do some digging, and think it through a bit in terms of the timeline, and know the personalities involved, it was absolutely JMS that blew the execution. It was Joe who stood up and took the bullet for JMS’s botched job. And to his credit, while he lightly and clearly defended himself here and there, Joe NEVER threw JMS under the bus. Even when JMS made a huge public display, threw a tantrum about a mess HE created, and himself threw Joe under the bus. I don’t know if anyone will read this far, but I want it out there on the interwebs that Joe did a LOT of good for a generation of comics fans. And while there may be One Day that we all wish we could OMIT, let’s not forget all the innovation, creativity, and love that the man brought, especially in the early years, that changed the Marvel of his day. For those of us who were there, we thank you.
What you say is true, from a certain point of view 😉 Knowing him personally gives you appreciation for him and adds more context to a situation like one more day. Virtually all I know the man for is one more day. At the very least I can say for him that I hate the decision to go ahead with one more day and remain committed to it all this time, but I don't know the man personally and therefore don't hate the man himself.
He was like George Constanza... They boarded up the door to his office, but he just went and crawled in through the vents. Or like Milton in Office Space, someone fixed the glitch that kept him receiving a paycheck. In any case, he hasn't done much of note in my mind for over a decade. That said, I don't have high expectations for his replacement.
I'll always remember him on a History Channel special about comics where he lamented the greed and gimmicks of the 90s withall of the variant covers and holographic covers and the like.
While the damage he did to Spider-Man's trajectory can't be dismissed, I have mostly fond thanks to Quesada for his part in Marvel Knights, which was a large part of why my absolute favorite years as a reader were so strong.
When Jim Lee inevitably leaves DC we can then officially say good bye to an era. Quesada saved Marvel alongside Jimmy Palmiotti with Marvel Knights. I personally hope Joe teams up with Palmiotti for any creator owned work.
This has seriously been a long time coming. Joe basically presided over the total decline of Marvel Comics since he took charge and he didn't earn a parachute of any kind. He should have just been dropped out of the plane and left to fall a long way screaming in total disgrace. Think that's harsh? I like to subscribe to an old school Democrat's slogan (somebody who'd look so toxic and conservative in Current Year) when he said, The buck stops here. Just look at the overwhelming evidence. Characters changed, retconned and outright destroyed in many ways since "Secret Wars But Don't Call This Crisis on Infinite Earths!" (How many characters have been changed completely and replaced by new versions? I'm looking at Cap, Black Widow, Tony Stark...it's not a short list.) The "All-New All-Different" and "Marvel NOW!" 'diverse and inclusive' initiatives, including elevating talent-less people like Sana and Vita to make silly characters and worthless stories nobody wants to read...need I go on??? One can only hope that they'll replace Joe with someone who honestly has a true love, appreciation and respect not only for the heroes of Marvel, but for the fans who keep Marvel running. If they can't, then as positive as this firing is, this won't solve anything.
Thanks for the invitation to share what I would like to see in comics. A refocus on fabulous story writing like from decades ago, retro art but with a modern flair. No implicit messages advancing any social or political agenda. Sure news headlines and current events can influence the stories, but this can be done in a natural, unforced way like how it was done in ASM in the 70s.
It is hard to perceive any influence within the comics by Joe within the last 10 years. He seemed like he was just along for the ride. Am I missing something?
During his tenure he greenlit some weird stuff, but the really weird stuff like Chuck Austen's weekly B&W newsprint Mature Readers US WARMACHINE comic, Startling Stories: Banner, and Milligan/Allred X-Force/X-Statix are the ones that really stand out and still hold up. House of M, One More Day, Civil War and all the events that tried chasing that high don't hold up, and did way more harm than good when it comes to a cohesive reading experience.
It feels like Quesada should’ve been gone like maybe ten years ago. It was cool when he first got in with Marvel Knights. There was a period of time after he took over where a lot of talent came in and things were really fresh for the first time in a long time again. But at some point it just felt like he got fat and lazy, and like Marvel has been coasting off the cool shit they had done.
Even though I hated his decisions on marvel comics I will give him credit where's its do with his time at marvel comics for doing good stuff for marvel especially in the early 2000's unfortnately his legacy will only be fond of Peter parker and mary jane marriage getting destroyed for garbage and of course House of M didn't help the X-Men line like at all but despite that setback I will give him credit where its do with the avengers but despite that setback I do wish him luck for the future and hope his indie stuff goes out on top but we shall see. Now with him gone hopefully this means we can finally have Peter parker and Mary jane have there marriage alive and kicking in the main marvel universe and have there daughter mayday parker spider-girl alive and kicking in the main universe.
One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen was them having Constantine not smoking in the TV show, John without his cig is like Thor without his hammer, or Cap without his shield.
Joe was a great artist. He took the reigns and steadied the ship at a tough time. And his run as EIC was mostly solid (One More Day aside). He should have done more to stop Marvel and it's despicable and unjustified fan bashing in this Disney era though. Sadly that's going to be the lasting legacy for a lot of these influential people who empowered the Twitter mobs against actual comic fans. Hoping he takes Jordan D White with him on his way out.
I don't think it's so much that Joe personally drifted away from where the fans were over the last decade, but more that basically the entire corporate world moved away from where most of the general public was over that time and anyone who wanted to stay in any kind of executive position had no choice but to follow and act like they wanted to do so. I can see how it would get tiring to play that game for so long.
I think Joe did a lot of good things, especially in the 2000s. He brought a great amount of super talents to Marvel back then and for me it's one of the greatest era of Marvel comics. Sadly one huge mistake (OMD) ruined his legacy.
I was a pretty big fan of Joey Q during Marvel Knights and his early Iron Man story and him being a great artist. I thought him taking over at Marvel was a great thing. But looking back, I think he's the most to blame for Marvel going down in flames.
I'm in the camp of those who will never forgive Quesada for "ONE MORE DAY" and all the antics connected to it. Not just that, but I feel his whole take on Spider-Man, in general, was somewhat off from the start. I was never fond of the 'mystical, totemistic' take on Spider-Man as a character. The Spidey crossover event "THE OTHER" went way the hell off the rails also, IMO.
Sadly, I have to agree with your assessment of the company's future course. Disney will tighten the reigns and more staff will be exiting stage left as the Mouse continues to homgenizie the books and characters for mass consumption. Like him or hate him I think we can all agree that Quesada was a buffer to a degree given his history with the characters.
I think that a lot of people are too harsh on Quesada lmao Sure, he made one more day, but the guy was a genious compared to Didio. Also, there wasnt a single year since 2001 that dc outsold marvel
I remember the first years of his tenure. After a long stale time under Harras and with the ghost of bankruptcy looming over Marvel, he made everything feel fresh again. What I loved most was that he brought back a feeling like the old boolpen gang was back. Not everything he did was golden or even good but he gave you the feeling he cared. I’m not happy with Marvel being further Disney-fied.
Hmmm? I wonder what he sees coming? After 2 1/2 decades with at least of it nobody knowing what Quesada actually did, he’s bailing from the worlds greatest high pay low effort job to seek new adventures? Yeah, I’m not buying it. He senses Disney is about to follow Discovery’s lead and take a chainsaw to the less than thriving divisions.
It's interesting how Bob Harras basically lost his job because he didn't capitalize on movies to sell more comic books-- something which nobody else anywhere has been able to do
I have a question who's ideas to Retcon Darkhawk's backstory to the Faternity of the Raptors was it C.B Cebulski or Dan Abnett? I already know both Darkhawk's past from the 90's comic and Fraternity of Raptor merged into one canon thank you Darkhawk Heart of the Hawk. But it curious to know. I always thought it was C.B Cebulski did that retcon as editor.
Whoever did it made a mistake. If Bosch's project (was that the intergalactic crime boss's name?) was to replicate the Raptors that could have worked, and then the explosion of the ship caused Chris's armor to change into something closer to the actual Raptors. Instead it's "screw what the creator and longtime original writer wanted, we have a 'better' idea".
I just sent my original first six HULK comics (1960's) over to a dealer in the USA to trade for some original 1960's comic art - at my age now I am over most new comics - so whatever Marvel Do now, it had better be really good to get me interested and back
Joe Quesada says a rags to richest story. That Marvel was like the Titanic when he took over. Wasn't Marvel Comics' sales BETTER in 2000 when Quesada became editor-in-chief than they are now? How can he say a "rags to riches" story when they are selling quite a bit FEWER comics today than the supposed-'Titanic' yesterday of the late 1990s?
If they old comics don’t get remade again like with omnibuses or collections cause if Disney I’m going to be pissed so many years of comics I have not even touched yet
I know he was responsible for many positive things that Marvel did since he became EiC. But One More Day still burns heavily in my mind and he was the one that pushed for it. I honestly don't believe things will get better at Marvel without him.
Marvel painted spidy into a corner. The character either was going to have to become totally subservient to the system, to stay out of prison for the rest of his life, or a hunted fugitive.
Is this one of the changes Perch was hinting at awhile ago? Edit: On whether or not this is a good thing or not depends on who he is replaced with. Antos is eagerly waiting by the phone.
Glad that Joe gets to leave on his terms, I will look forward to seeing what he does in the future. I know the Spider-Man silliness tend to cloud people's opinion of him (which, yeah, I get it), but he did do a lot for the company. On a more general note--and this is honestly *not* Schadenfreude just morbid fascination--I am anticipating watching Marvel over the next year, just to see the exodus slowly morph into a purge.
Oh yeah I heard that Joe Quesada was... was... yawn... leaving. I can't say I care what happens at Marvel anymore. It would take a big shake-up which isn't happening any time soon.
I'm not happy where Disney is taking Marvel, but I'm also happy to see the guy that trashed Spider-Man and X-Men to absolutely unreadable garbage filly leaving. And I'll deny whatever the fuck I want.
Meh... much like DC with AT&T, the die was cast when Disney bought Marvel - it was only a matter of which corporation wrings out the I.P. faster. What is very clear is that the "traditional direct market" is dead. Now the final scramble of the local comic shop begins. 😢
If you are right and this means Disney will have even more influence over the comics, then I think this marks the death knell for Marvel comics. I find that very sad, because I've been a fan since I was a kid, but I just don't trust Disney to do anything right at this point. Hate what they've done to "Star Wars" and have not liked the trajectory for the MCU films since "Craptain Marvel" came out.
He has a lot avenues to he could go down for his future. The film and television possibilities, start his own publishing comic company, could take over one of the other smaller comic companies. It will be interesting where he goes.
Say what you will about One More Day and some of the other creative decisions he made as CEO. The man was a huge part of the Marvel Renaissance in the mid 2000s, and he really bought Marvel back to greatness. At least up until Disney bought them out.
@@CoriolanusQuince Maybe i'm viewing it through nostalgia goggles, but it was the era of marvel comics I grew up with. He played a key part in saving Marvel from bankruptcy.
Just looking for recommendations. That was the only Marvel book I read during the mid 2000s. And the bankruptcy was in the mid 90s. Avi Arad, Ike Perlmutter and Toy Biz were the one that saved Marvel from it, not Quesada. Joe was self-publishing his superhero firefighter comic 'Ash' back then.
You young bushy tail whippersnappers. I hope we get the relationship back from Spider-man that really shook the book.J. Johan Jameson and his Cigar. I got into Marvel in his run and left around 12. I think it's easy to blame Joe but he's human and I think he left Marvel better than he found it. Good work. I would like to see more genres and better opportunities but with the Mouse. Probably be more water down corporate stuff.
You did more damage than doing good for marvel. No tears from me. Just look how crappy woke xbooks are still as you are leaving joeQ. I just don't give a that's behind. Be safe. Mabuhay!
Wait, when did Joe Quesada implement this "dead characters stay dead" policy? Is he the reason they didn't bring back Magik for so long? No exaggeration, this is the reason I quit collecting comics, so I want to know who to blame.
@@justinarzola5782 Good to know. I wish I could tell him that he's the reason I don't buy comics anymore. I collected New Mutants 1 through 100, but when they created a comic mini-series for the entire purpose of chastising me for wanting Magik back, I canceled all my pull lists and haven't looked back since.
His BIGGEST mistake was not capitalising on the movies before Disney bought em when their income couldve been funneled to the comic company to get The BEST talent ridiculous levels of money could buy. Once Disney got em marvel just became an IP farm for em that led to where we are now. I won't miss him as its the tail end of his tenure that drove me off a 3 decade long habit. Even Bob Harris didn't do THAT. Here's hoping somewhere in the Marvel universe the thing, nick fury and wolverine are in a bar lighting up a stoogie 😂
So Jim Shooter has a chance to return? Nothing will change. Disney has money and does not need the comics to make them any more of it. They will use it to promote Disney's IDEAS and RELIGION and keep it on line with their other forms of PROPAGANDA.
I like how 90% of the reactions I've seen about this are "Okay cool. Can Spider-Man and MJ get back together now?" lol. I think that's what he's always going to be remembered for. I wish he stuck to drawing.
That was my reaction when I heard the news, now we could have the relationship again.
Joe Q, with One More Day, did with Charles Schultz did with Peanuts. Joe Q vented his personal life at Spider-Man. After One More Day happened, however, there was no way to undo it. There also seems to be a trend at both Marvel Comics and DC Comics to ruin married couples. Just look at what's happening currently with Clark Kent/Superman, where he's off in space while Lois Lane is still on Earth.
Just wrote an article going up on my site tonight basically stating this and his other failings aren't changing just because he's leaving any more than DC suddenly became better when DiDio left. He's only the face of these bad decisions, not the sole party responsible.
@@tomcruisenukedmyaccount5388 Found Joe Q's alt account. OMD sucks butt
His artwork is fabulous. His run on Marvel Knights Daredevil is iconic and enduring. His variant covers are beautiful, too.
Unfortunately for him, One More Day is his legacy. Its what people think of when they hear his name.
The quesada era of marvel comics was mostly good but that was because of the writers and not quesada himself,when he was more involved we got crap like one more day or that nyx crap.
@@justinarzola5782 Don't forget Hail Hydra Captain America
It's literally all I know him for.
@@ShinDangaioh wasn't him. Alonso
@@tomcruisenukedmyaccount5388 it's not awful, but it's not good either and it forever stained Spiderman
Was it Joe Quesada who spent 3 days on twitter attacking Ya Boi Zack? Because that was weird AF for someone in his position to do. I mean, I can imagine Ron Marz or Heather Antos doing it, but the head of Marvel? Strange times.
Really? What a clown.
@@InfamyOrDeath-__- Yeah he was trying to sound reasonable and adult, like he was trying to broker some peace between the "sides", but it was so clear he was being disingenuous and biased and quickly just turned into shitting on Zack while defending everything done on his side.
He was super friendly with renfamous too
Marvel should have entered a new Golden Age with the wild success of the MCU. But instead of spending money to hire the best authors and artists, they decided to virtue signal to a group of people that don't like or even buy comics. They brought in talentless hacks with zero experience, who wrote wooden, unlikable characters and painfully woke crap that long time fans didn't ask for, and whose target audience didn't buy because they were never going to spend money on comics in the first place. Marvel cut it's own throat by letting in borderline sociopathic people like Heather Antos who spend more time lecturing fans on Twitter than she does trying to write stories fans would want to read.
I can’t speak to any of that since I stopped reading in disgust after Ultimates 3. Every time I browse in a comic shop I give up. Marvel needs real talent, real stories and great editors. MCU is great, the comics suck.
Borderline?
Love him or hate him, whatever concerns you may have about his role in the comics, can we all just please acknowledge that THIS IS THE WAY A GROWNUP RESIGNS FROM A JOB. It's scary that we need to recognize this, but there are way too many people "going public" with every petty little issue that they didn't like about their employer. Newsflash, future employers don't appreciate that kind of behavior.
He was responsible for One More Day and changing JMS' plot for Sins Past. He also drove John Byrne from Marvel.
This partly explains why Marvel's content strategy has been *almost* as rudderless as DC's over the last year or so.
Yes, it seems to explain plenty of current and ongoing things.
I can’t say I’m sorry to see him go. His letter is gracious but I do not have good feelings about him especially because of Spiderman.
That means Peter Parker can get on with his life 😃
I am a fan of Joe's art. If this brings more comics from him that would be great. Not sure I care about any movie he might make. When I look back at his early days as EIC I love a lot of the comics he was a part off. Marvel knights, the ultimate line. So many of those early 2000 comic runs are great reads. Bendis, Ennis, Millar, Brubaker, Smith and many other creators did amazing work under his leadership.
I feel like they drifted towards a focus on continuity and line-wide events starting with Civil War than taking creative chances. Constant editorial interference makes for less creativity. As a result, I feel there has been less definitive runs or versions of their characters. There has been a few, like Fraction and Aja’s Hawkeye, and maybe King and Walta’s Vision, Wilson and Alphona’s Ms. Marvel and the recent Immortal Hulk but it’s not as frequent as it used to be.
I'm honestly relieved that he's gone, he's done bad work with marvel, atleast he's a good artist.
@@justinarzola5782 He's a mediocre artist at best the only thing he was known for in the 90's was ash and to this day I don't know anyone who actually owns that comic.
I was both surprised and happy reading this news.
If this means we can finally get Peter Parker and Mary Jane's marriage back, hopefully never taking it back again, or doing anything like it, then that's brilliant.
The only thing I will ever fervently dislike him for.
Deep down they know it would be great for sales, they just hate the idea that it would bring so many back. Validating that is why people left. And it representing a positive idea of marriage between a man and a woman.
@@johnnywolfblood3486 Why would bringing many customers back ever be a bad thing?
@@MegaSpideyman I believe they actually hate the former audience that bought comics. Bringing sales back is a good thing. The current staff just doesn’t care.
It is obvious they have an agenda, and most likely not held to a standard of selling units.
In all likelihood the big two, as comic companies, are merely a tax write off due too loses for their parent companies.
I believe the current staff loves the idea of destroying characters and concepts that we the OG comic patrons bought and enjoyed in comics.
@@johnnywolfblood3486 That's mad, if so.
No good reason to be working there if they hate their audience or the characters.
@@tomcruisenukedmyaccount5388 no
I'm done until someone at Marvel is capable of acting like an adult.
Facts. I literally yawned when I watched this.
Joe Q took things too far by applying his personal life to Marvel Comics with One More Day. He was going through a divorce, and then decided to vent by making Peter Parker's life into s***. I hope that Disney brings Peter Parker and Mary Jane back together, but Zeb Wells--who's currently writing The Amazing Spider-Man--has no intention of doing this.
I didn't know Quesada had a divorce and that influenced one more day. Reminds me of the drastic change to Jerry and Beth's relationship and the series in general in Rick and Morty because of co-creator Dan Harmon's divorce. I stopped watching after season 2.
@@MRF1983 Yep Quesada had a divorce. He also made an OC in the Spiderman comics based off his own daughter so Peter could date her. It was bizarre.
There were 2 big creative mistakes Marvel made in the 2000s that seem to have been largely Quesada's doing. The first was M-Day, depowering the world's mutants and turning them into an endangered species for many years. Then there was One More Day. Both were disastrous for their respective franchises, and these are things Quesada will always be remembered for, even though for the most part he was a huge improvement over Bob Harris. The objective part of my brain says he was 100% right in ordering 'dead means dead' and it's a shame that didn't last, but at the same time I wouldn't be reading comics at all now if Magik wasn't brought back in the late 2000s.
but now we have the X-men dying every issue and being resurrected in the last page.
@@daniel79tj Everything about Krakoa is a response to the 15 years of non-stop 'mutants are about to go extinct' stories that followed M-Day.
@@garywillig5143 Wow, great comics then.
The quesada era was when I really got into marvel comics as a kid in the 2000s,his creative decisions were dumb but we got good stuff from bendis and brubaker.
@@tomcruisenukedmyaccount5388 i actually can see why you did M day, At some point mutants would outnumber regular people in the comic and they will lose any touch of being close to real world, Of course they may be running into that issue with too many superpower heroes particular omega level. So in a way i can see where he was coming from but his mistake was destroying so many establish mutants particular fan favorite. No more muntants could simply had been no more muntants being born. So instead of reducing the amount of mutant (which make no mistake. No more mean they shouldn't be any) it just mean no new mutants.
As for spiderman. The man is into his 30's and you want to revert him to a go lucky, talkative teen? they were better way to remove the couple then simple having the devil do it. I don't mind fridge her but they are ways.
Coming soon...the answer to the question "what could be worse for Marvel than Joe Quesada?"
Quesada saved Marvel when it was bankrupt, man. He's been nothing than good for it.
@@jal051 One more day
I think we go through this every time there's a leadership change. People get their hopes up that the company will suddenly pivot into something "better" but they usually just stay the course. I'm guessing that these decisions come from higher up the chain.
Amen to that.
Some of them do while others they're just happy to see.
I doubt anyone except the most diehard thinks Marvel will magically turn around because of Quesada's departure.
We've already been through this rodeo many times in the past (Axel Alonso to CB Cebulski, Kathleen Kennedy Star Wars, J.J. Star Trek, Battlefield w/Cyborg Chick, TLOU2, many recent Marvel movies & TV shows, DCEU, Dr. Who, etc., etc.) with nothing changing or things getting worse.
Whatever. Who cares?
What we're really waiting for is a Netflix moment, where the company tells all the activist employees to go suck dirt, or a Twitter (upcoming) moment where Musk will take over and start a Night of the Long Knives.
I'd be more optimistic about this, if we didn't see something similar happen with Didio at DC. Although you keep hoping things will get better, that's rarely the case. Things can always get worse. I hope I'm wrong.
My thoughts on Quesada's legacy
- He did alot of good with the Ultimate Universe with Jemas, The Max imprint & Marvel knights with jimmy Palmaotti. Also, he did brought a new wave of talent in the early 00s.
Now for the negative. About OMD, people can complain about that all they want. But for me, it's a part of a larger negative trend started with Guardian Devil with the death of Karen Page. Which says, heroes cannot be allowed to be happy, cannot be in stable relationships. this also resulted in the 2nd death of Jean & temporary death of Janet Van Dyne.
Also, starting with Disassembled, he brought an endless wave of events that eventually created a sense of instability & interrupted stories in other titles. Also, most of these events were either heroes vs other heroes or heroes being hunted down which resulted in a unnecessary grim tone for the MU.
All in all, I do wish him best but his legacy is very mixed in my eyes.
don't forget he made Gwen cheat with Norman 🤣
@@ahmadarsenal1996 the reason why Quesada changed the reveal of Sins Past is that he didn't want Peter to come across as a bad role model by saying he had premarital sex in his college years.
I didn't realize he was still there.
He should've left long ago.
@@justinarzola5782 I'm not sure it would have made a difference unless he left before One More Day. Almost everything else he did has been undone.
Joe Quesada should have left two decades ago. For Peter's fans, unfortunately, as long as Nick Lowe is around, nothing will change.
Why's that?
What did Nick lowe do?
From Zeb Wells' first issue of The Amazing Spider-Man, he's going to make One More Day look like a walk in the park. There's foreshadowing that something really, really bad is going to happen to Aunt May--again. After cyborg Moira MacTaggert is done with Mary Jane, Mary Jane is never going to be the same again. (Note: Moira MacTaggert's latest life is an evil cyborg. To sneak into X-Men Gala 2022, cyborg Moira is going to steal Mary Jane's appearance. I've heard that cyborg Moira steals identities by wearing their skin. If that's the case, cyborg Moira is going to skin Mary Jane alive...leaving Mary Jane horribly disfigured.)
@@Kooster69 That sounds horrifying.
@@Kooster69 It seems appropriate for Hellfire Gala 2:
Red Carpet interviewer: "What are you wearing?"
Moira: "Mary Jane!"
So happy to hear you confirm One More Day and all the woke stuff will be thrown out and Marvel will return to 80s/early 90s glory!
Oh, that would be absolutely beautiful.
Same there marriage will be restored
As someone who grew up on comics in the late 90s and early 00s, I want to back up what you said about how highly regarded Joe Q was at the time. He was the face of a beloved renaissance that was Marvel Knights and the Ultimate line. He was bold, creative, talented... and loved the characters. Some of today’s comics community - both the creators and “reporters” - seem to think comics have only been around for 5 years. There is a long history here with Joe. One that started out with a LOT of good choices and a lot of great comics.
I had the tremendous opportunity to intern at Marvel under Joe. He found a high school kid who was extremely passionate about comics and gave me a shot to be a part of things on the inside. I got to see his passion, leadership, and creativity firsthand in the Marvel offices. I don’t want to go down this rabbit hole too far, but I was there in the middle of the JMS years on Spider-Man, amongst many other things. While I agree with the majority of fans that breaking up Peter and MJ was absolutely the wrong move, if you do a little digging, he really believed it was the right call from a story perspective. More importantly, and so frustratingly, no one got to see what JMS was like to work with behind the scenes. As much as I still hate the choice to break up Peter and MJ, I honestly hate the heat that Joe Q takes for HOW it went down more. Joe made the choice, but if you do some digging, and think it through a bit in terms of the timeline, and know the personalities involved, it was absolutely JMS that blew the execution. It was Joe who stood up and took the bullet for JMS’s botched job. And to his credit, while he lightly and clearly defended himself here and there, Joe NEVER threw JMS under the bus. Even when JMS made a huge public display, threw a tantrum about a mess HE created, and himself threw Joe under the bus.
I don’t know if anyone will read this far, but I want it out there on the interwebs that Joe did a LOT of good for a generation of comics fans. And while there may be One Day that we all wish we could OMIT, let’s not forget all the innovation, creativity, and love that the man brought, especially in the early years, that changed the Marvel of his day. For those of us who were there, we thank you.
What you say is true, from a certain point of view 😉
Knowing him personally gives you appreciation for him and adds more context to a situation like one more day.
Virtually all I know the man for is one more day. At the very least I can say for him that I hate the decision to go ahead with one more day and remain committed to it all this time, but I don't know the man personally and therefore don't hate the man himself.
Thank you for sharing this. I really appreciate your perspective!
The first thing I thought of was finally Peter and Mary Jane will be able to get back together again.
Don’t mind me, I’m just here for progression of Mumbles’ character arc.
I'm here for the reverse
He was like George Constanza... They boarded up the door to his office, but he just went and crawled in through the vents. Or like Milton in Office Space, someone fixed the glitch that kept him receiving a paycheck. In any case, he hasn't done much of note in my mind for over a decade. That said, I don't have high expectations for his replacement.
I'll always remember him on a History Channel special about comics where he lamented the greed and gimmicks of the 90s withall of the variant covers and holographic covers and the like.
While the damage he did to Spider-Man's trajectory can't be dismissed, I have mostly fond thanks to Quesada for his part in Marvel Knights, which was a large part of why my absolute favorite years as a reader were so strong.
When Jim Lee inevitably leaves DC we can then officially say good bye to an era. Quesada saved Marvel alongside Jimmy Palmiotti with Marvel Knights. I personally hope Joe teams up with Palmiotti for any creator owned work.
This has seriously been a long time coming. Joe basically presided over the total decline of Marvel Comics since he took charge and he didn't earn a parachute of any kind. He should have just been dropped out of the plane and left to fall a long way screaming in total disgrace. Think that's harsh? I like to subscribe to an old school Democrat's slogan (somebody who'd look so toxic and conservative in Current Year) when he said, The buck stops here.
Just look at the overwhelming evidence. Characters changed, retconned and outright destroyed in many ways since "Secret Wars But Don't Call This Crisis on Infinite Earths!" (How many characters have been changed completely and replaced by new versions? I'm looking at Cap, Black Widow, Tony Stark...it's not a short list.) The "All-New All-Different" and "Marvel NOW!" 'diverse and inclusive' initiatives, including elevating talent-less people like Sana and Vita to make silly characters and worthless stories nobody wants to read...need I go on???
One can only hope that they'll replace Joe with someone who honestly has a true love, appreciation and respect not only for the heroes of Marvel, but for the fans who keep Marvel running. If they can't, then as positive as this firing is, this won't solve anything.
Thanks for the invitation to share what I would like to see in comics.
A refocus on fabulous story writing like from decades ago, retro art but with a modern flair. No implicit messages advancing any social or political agenda. Sure news headlines and current events can influence the stories, but this can be done in a natural, unforced way like how it was done in ASM in the 70s.
It is hard to perceive any influence within the comics by Joe within the last 10 years. He seemed like he was just along for the ride. Am I missing something?
During his tenure he greenlit some weird stuff, but the really weird stuff like Chuck Austen's weekly B&W newsprint Mature Readers US WARMACHINE comic, Startling Stories: Banner, and Milligan/Allred X-Force/X-Statix are the ones that really stand out and still hold up. House of M, One More Day, Civil War and all the events that tried chasing that high don't hold up, and did way more harm than good when it comes to a cohesive reading experience.
It feels like Quesada should’ve been gone like maybe ten years ago. It was cool when he first got in with Marvel Knights. There was a period of time after he took over where a lot of talent came in and things were really fresh for the first time in a long time again. But at some point it just felt like he got fat and lazy, and like Marvel has been coasting off the cool shit they had done.
Even though I hated his decisions on marvel comics I will give him credit where's its do with his time at marvel comics for doing good stuff for marvel especially in the early 2000's unfortnately his legacy will only be fond of Peter parker and mary jane marriage getting destroyed for garbage and of course House of M didn't help the X-Men line like at all but despite that setback I will give him credit where its do with the avengers but despite that setback I do wish him luck for the future and hope his indie stuff goes out on top but we shall see. Now with him gone hopefully this means we can finally have Peter parker and Mary jane have there marriage alive and kicking in the main marvel universe and have there daughter mayday parker spider-girl alive and kicking in the main universe.
Didn't Joe Q also begin the censorship of smoking in Marvel books?
One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen was them having Constantine not smoking in the TV show, John without his cig is like Thor without his hammer, or Cap without his shield.
Joe was a great artist. He took the reigns and steadied the ship at a tough time. And his run as EIC was mostly solid (One More Day aside). He should have done more to stop Marvel and it's despicable and unjustified fan bashing in this Disney era though. Sadly that's going to be the lasting legacy for a lot of these influential people who empowered the Twitter mobs against actual comic fans. Hoping he takes Jordan D White with him on his way out.
One thing is about quesada is he never really listened to what fans wanted which can be good or bad depending how you see it.
@@justinarzola5782 it’s funny how I keep finding you in these videos along with some idiot who thinks OMD is good and Mary Jane is a “male fantasy”
Terran Marine armors up, stares at the camera chopping on his cigar, "Heyll! It's about time!" Visor closes.
Feige is straight up ruthless. All the old stuff has to go.
I don't think it's so much that Joe personally drifted away from where the fans were over the last decade, but more that basically the entire corporate world moved away from where most of the general public was over that time and anyone who wanted to stay in any kind of executive position had no choice but to follow and act like they wanted to do so. I can see how it would get tiring to play that game for so long.
It's John Cena finally getting beaten by the Undertaker.
It was too little too late. and It should have happened Sooner than it did.
No tears here
Hopefully we'll never see this headline: perch leaves RUclips, mumbles celebrates her victory
I think Joe did a lot of good things, especially in the 2000s. He brought a great amount of super talents to Marvel back then and for me it's one of the greatest era of Marvel comics. Sadly one huge mistake (OMD) ruined his legacy.
Every time I see his last name I think of the Mexican food Quesadillas and my mouth waters.
Does it change seeing his blob in a Disney tee?
I was a pretty big fan of Joey Q during Marvel Knights and his early Iron Man story and him being a great artist. I thought him taking over at Marvel was a great thing. But looking back, I think he's the most to blame for Marvel going down in flames.
I'm in the camp of those who will never forgive Quesada for "ONE MORE DAY" and all the antics connected to it. Not just that, but I feel his whole take on Spider-Man, in general, was somewhat off from the start. I was never fond of the 'mystical, totemistic' take on Spider-Man as a character. The Spidey crossover event "THE OTHER" went way the hell off the rails also, IMO.
welcome back john byrne 🥳🥳🎉🎉
Sadly, I have to agree with your assessment of the company's future course. Disney will tighten the reigns and more staff will be exiting stage left as the Mouse continues to homgenizie the books and characters for mass consumption. Like him or hate him I think we can all agree that Quesada was a buffer to a degree given his history with the characters.
I think that a lot of people are too harsh on Quesada lmao
Sure, he made one more day, but the guy was a genious compared to Didio. Also, there wasnt a single year since 2001 that dc outsold marvel
“JULY 2022 MARVEL STOPS PRINTING COMICS!”
- EVS (probably)
Cannot wait for Vita to step up and take his role.
I remember the first years of his tenure. After a long stale time under Harras and with the ghost of bankruptcy looming over Marvel, he made everything feel fresh again. What I loved most was that he brought back a feeling like the old boolpen gang was back. Not everything he did was golden or even good but he gave you the feeling he cared. I’m not happy with Marvel being further Disney-fied.
Hmmm? I wonder what he sees coming? After 2 1/2 decades with at least of it nobody knowing what Quesada actually did, he’s bailing from the worlds greatest high pay low effort job to seek new adventures? Yeah, I’m not buying it. He senses Disney is about to follow Discovery’s lead and take a chainsaw to the less than thriving divisions.
It's interesting how Bob Harras basically lost his job because he didn't capitalize on movies to sell more comic books-- something which nobody else anywhere has been able to do
Ultimate Marvel imprint in it's early years remains among my favorite comics and the jumping on point of my comic book collecting and reading.
I have a question who's ideas to Retcon Darkhawk's backstory to the Faternity of the Raptors was it C.B Cebulski or Dan Abnett? I already know both Darkhawk's past from the 90's comic and Fraternity of Raptor merged into one canon thank you Darkhawk Heart of the Hawk. But it curious to know. I always thought it was C.B Cebulski did that retcon as editor.
Whoever did it made a mistake. If Bosch's project (was that the intergalactic crime boss's name?) was to replicate the Raptors that could have worked, and then the explosion of the ship caused Chris's armor to change into something closer to the actual Raptors. Instead it's "screw what the creator and longtime original writer wanted, we have a 'better' idea".
I just sent my original first six HULK comics (1960's) over to a dealer in the USA to trade for some original 1960's comic art - at my age now I am over most new comics - so whatever Marvel Do now, it had better be really good to get me interested and back
Good.
Joe Quesada says a rags to richest story. That Marvel was like the Titanic when he took over. Wasn't Marvel Comics' sales BETTER in 2000 when Quesada became editor-in-chief than they are now? How can he say a "rags to riches" story when they are selling quite a bit FEWER comics today than the supposed-'Titanic' yesterday of the late 1990s?
Well, maybe with Disney taking more creative control, we might actually see more synergy with the movies.
If they old comics don’t get remade again like with omnibuses or collections cause if Disney I’m going to be pissed so many years of comics I have not even touched yet
When’s Heather moving here stuff into Joe’s office I wonder 🤣🤣🤣
Does this mean SGM can FINALLY draw X-men?
Sean Murphy’s Uncanny X-men & Wolverine has a nice ring to it.
Knowing this, I think it begs the question... OMD undone when? xD xD
I know he was responsible for many positive things that Marvel did since he became EiC.
But One More Day still burns heavily in my mind and he was the one that pushed for it.
I honestly don't believe things will get better at Marvel without him.
Marvel painted spidy into a corner. The character either was going to have to become totally subservient to the system, to stay out of prison for the rest of his life, or a hunted fugitive.
Dollars to donuts they replace him with a minority lesbian.
Awwww no we've lost so much he did so Manny great things like end marriages and homogeneous the art to look like a worse version of his art.
Is this one of the changes Perch was hinting at awhile ago?
Edit: On whether or not this is a good thing or not depends on who he is replaced with. Antos is eagerly waiting by the phone.
Glad that Joe gets to leave on his terms, I will look forward to seeing what he does in the future. I know the Spider-Man silliness tend to cloud people's opinion of him (which, yeah, I get it), but he did do a lot for the company.
On a more general note--and this is honestly *not* Schadenfreude just morbid fascination--I am anticipating watching Marvel over the next year, just to see the exodus slowly morph into a purge.
If only this happened 15 years ago.
Knowing about the long-term effects of M-Day, Civil War, AvX, etc., I find his claim of loving the characters and their universe as disingenuous.
Oh yeah I heard that Joe Quesada was... was... yawn... leaving. I can't say I care what happens at Marvel anymore. It would take a big shake-up which isn't happening any time soon.
I’ve had problems with Joe since he wrote NYX.
It'll be cool to see Joe do more artwork if he's gonna. I've missed it.
I'm not happy where Disney is taking Marvel, but I'm also happy to see the guy that trashed Spider-Man and X-Men to absolutely unreadable garbage filly leaving. And I'll deny whatever the fuck I want.
One More Day will go down as the saddest Spider-Man story.
Meh... much like DC with AT&T, the die was cast when Disney bought Marvel - it was only a matter of which corporation wrings out the I.P. faster. What is very clear is that the "traditional direct market" is dead. Now the final scramble of the local comic shop begins. 😢
If you are right and this means Disney will have even more influence over the comics, then I think this marks the death knell for Marvel comics. I find that very sad, because I've been a fan since I was a kid, but I just don't trust Disney to do anything right at this point. Hate what they've done to "Star Wars" and have not liked the trajectory for the MCU films since "Craptain Marvel" came out.
For all I know he might well be a lovely human being, but he'll forever be "He Who Ruined Spider-Man for Me".
He has a lot avenues to he could go down for his future. The film and television possibilities, start his own publishing comic company, could take over one of the other smaller comic companies. It will be interesting where he goes.
He should've stayed indie, his better works are his non marvel work.
The uncertainty of Disney’s future maneuvering of Marvel Publishing is a bit frightening.
Wonder if we'll see more Marvel/DC crossovers. Rumors were he was the one holding that back.
If true, now there’s just 1,000 lawyers standing in that way.
As the writer of "One More Day" I say Good Riddance.
Say what you will about One More Day and some of the other creative decisions he made as CEO. The man was a huge part of the Marvel Renaissance in the mid 2000s, and he really bought Marvel back to greatness. At least up until Disney bought them out.
Other than Brubaker's Captain America, what was good during that era?
@@CoriolanusQuince Maybe i'm viewing it through nostalgia goggles, but it was the era of marvel comics I grew up with. He played a key part in saving Marvel from bankruptcy.
Just looking for recommendations. That was the only Marvel book I read during the mid 2000s. And the bankruptcy was in the mid 90s. Avi Arad, Ike Perlmutter and Toy Biz were the one that saved Marvel from it, not Quesada. Joe was self-publishing his superhero firefighter comic 'Ash' back then.
You young bushy tail whippersnappers. I hope we get the relationship back from Spider-man that really shook the book.J. Johan Jameson and his Cigar.
I got into Marvel in his run and left around 12. I think it's easy to blame Joe but he's human and I think he left Marvel better than he found it. Good work.
I would like to see more genres and better opportunities but with the Mouse. Probably be more water down corporate stuff.
Honestly, didn't know he was still there. He seems to have been promoted into oblivion.
So do they just license to IDW?
MJbros is this our time?
You did more damage than doing good for marvel. No tears from me. Just look how crappy woke xbooks are still as you are leaving joeQ. I just don't give a that's behind. Be safe. Mabuhay!
GOOD. Spiderman can now finally get married again and grow up.
Wait, when did Joe Quesada implement this "dead characters stay dead" policy? Is he the reason they didn't bring back Magik for so long? No exaggeration, this is the reason I quit collecting comics, so I want to know who to blame.
Yes he did.
@@justinarzola5782
Good to know. I wish I could tell him that he's the reason I don't buy comics anymore. I collected New Mutants 1 through 100, but when they created a comic mini-series for the entire purpose of chastising me for wanting Magik back, I canceled all my pull lists and haven't looked back since.
His BIGGEST mistake was not capitalising on the movies before Disney bought em when their income couldve been funneled to the comic company to get The BEST talent ridiculous levels of money could buy. Once Disney got em marvel just became an IP farm for em that led to where we are now.
I won't miss him as its the tail end of his tenure that drove me off a 3 decade long habit. Even Bob Harris didn't do THAT.
Here's hoping somewhere in the Marvel universe the thing, nick fury and wolverine are in a bar lighting up a stoogie 😂
So Jim Shooter has a chance to return?
Nothing will change.
Disney has money and does not need the comics to make them any more of it. They will use it to promote Disney's IDEAS and RELIGION and keep it on line with their other forms of PROPAGANDA.
Have they announced that Vita is being given the EIC job yet?
Will this really make a difference? It’s hard to have hope that marvel will get better.
I seriously wonder how much autonomy he has had for a long while.....
Can't say I was a fan.
I wish I could smash the like button a couple of times. Once for your report and twice because “He’s Gone!”
About time.
Best of Luck to Joe Quesada on his new endeavors!