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This is a weird argument.Which is cool…whatever. 

 You’re saying that I shouldn’t critique companies with awful histories of creator rights because they sell more comics than other publishers? I don’t see a market share somehow would free them from critique. 

Marvel was also instrumental in fucking up the larger diversity of distributors in the direct market during the 90′s (which is fine, whatever),

I don’t think I’ve ever called them “soulless money-grubbers “ but I do think they are bad places to keep propping up as ideal places for anyone to make self expression with full control of what you do- without having to worry about other people changing your work. (which is not fine,), They’re bad places to do your best work, because you won’t be able to control or own what you do. Plus I think the medium of comics is sooo much bigger than the nerd culture that you get from that end of comics.So as someone who wants to make good comics and read good comics corporate comics are not my friend. 

And this is all generalising. There are good people working at those places and great work has also come out of them… sometimes– 

My goal with being critical of those places is to point out that creators don’t have to settle for being mistreated or aim for a corner at the mistreatment inc table.–and that comics is bigger than mutant power fantasy comics. It’s  fine, whatever that you want to defend these soulless money-grubbing (there I said it) companies– but do you really think I have any say on their control of the market? Disney owned Marvel and Time Warner owned DC will be around loooong after I’m dead & I don’t think I’ll hurt their feelings in the meantime.  

Even retailers will tell you that the way that those companies run things is often shitty, predatory and short sighted.– you don’t buy someone’s loyalty because they are tied to your business. 

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