Hardly. What Poor Ceci is managing to do is paint with black & white colors (as do most Detractors™).
There is certainly far more details to put forth (and by no means were reasons given as simple as Poor Ceci & most Detractors™ want to portray them) in pretty much all of the occurrences.
While a few may not necessarily be justifiable reasons for JB to decide to leave some of the titles, using these examples to try to portray JB as a "quitter" is way off base.



Then you would be wrong to jump to such a conclusion. By no means should anyone's own very obvious bias be taken at face value, but at the same time their version of events should also not be automatically dismissed (especially if you yourself have some sort of inherent negative bias towards someone based pretty much only on their online personality).

Bottom line (yeah...right), if you can't prove or disprove something, then bitching & moaning about possibilities just makes you look petty & opportunistic (which accurately describes most Detractors™).

I'd rather have someone on a book who'd like to be on it. Being a capricious whim led creative I know if I had to write 6 more issues of Dorkman and Blobbo and hated it thus far, I wouldn't produce as good of work as otherwise.

Honestly, Paul. We all know you're not really ignoring me. You can go ahead and respond directly to me instead of acting through intermediaries.



Wait... since I got all that information from Byrne's FAQ, does that make John Byrne a detractor? Oh man, did I just BLOW YOUR MIND?!?



Fair enough, Paul. Feel free to give us the details that show how I have oversimplified things.

Of course, you will not do so.



Remember earlier when you automatically dismissed anything said by someone at IMWAN? Good times, Paul. Good times.

Ceci drew his information from Byrne's own accounts. Yes. He filtered out the ten or so paragraphs where Byrne cries about how Jim Shooter/ DC double-crossed him, but would the inclusion of that self-serving fluff really take away from his point?



Since all of these stories follows the same exact pattern of...

1. Byrne, the noble creative artist, wants to act only in the interest of his fans and the beloved characters he is writing/ illustrating.

2. Petty megalomaniacal forces intervene. Usually some type of "double cross" is involved.

3. Byrne quits.

At some point, as others have pointed out, one has to look inward and consider, "Maybe it's me!"

To look at nine or ten of these incidents and say, "Aw Man. That poor Byrne sure has rotten luck" is pretty naive.

I don't think anyone is arguing that Byrne should've stayed on any job past the point he wanted to. If you are going to quit a bunch of jobs though, how can you become indignant and defensive when you get a reputation for quitting a bunch of jobs?

Maybe he prefers everyone talked nicely about him.

Then maybe he should talk nicely about others.

Well yeah. I didn't suggest otherwise.

Was more meant as a suggestion for JB.

I agree. Which makes it kinda sad when I read about projects that JB expresses affection for & we learn that politics played a part in some & idiotic decision making played a part in others.