Joe Quesada leaving Marvel to pursue his own projects 1 1

[F For Fake]

On 5/31/2022 at 7:07 PM, Ken Aldred said:

To be fair, there was some nice material produced during Quesada’s time; Morrison’s X-Men, Brubaker’s Captain America, and Daredevil, which has been extremely well-written and drawn for years and years under many creator teams, since the Marvel Knights phase.

If we are going to criticise anything, I’d backtrack further to the very, very destructive, indefensible Perelman era.

This is a great point, and one that I'd honestly forgotten about. When Quesada came on board, Marvel was in the toilet. Quesada aggressively recruited big talent (Morrison, Brubakber, Bendis) and big names (Kevin Smith...not a fan, but he was a huge get for comics at the time) and righted the ship. Like I said before, I haven't really kept up with Marvel in many years, and am not even sure what his position was before he left, but he should get a huge share of the credit for saving Marvel when it needed it most.

[Ken Aldred]

On 6/1/2022 at 8:11 PM, F For Fake said:

This is a great point, and one that I'd honestly forgotten about. When Quesada came on board, Marvel was in the toilet. Quesada aggressively recruited big talent (Morrison, Brubakber, Bendis) and big names (Kevin Smith...not a fan, but he was a huge get for comics at the time) and righted the ship. Like I said before, I haven't really kept up with Marvel in many years, and am not even sure what his position was before he left, but he should get a huge share of the credit for saving Marvel when it needed it most.

Exactly. After many years of the company churning out drek suitable only for use in bird cages.  Not that Marvel was alone there, of course.

Edited June 1, 2022 by Ken Aldred