Paul is a nice guy and a very serviceable if unremarkable writer. He definitely saw Byrne as his ticket to sit with the cool kids at their table!

He quit a couple of jobs in what some would call a "huff" & not EVERYONE is crass enough to label JB as a "quitter".

Otherwise, your little fantasy that you've built up with you as a see-it-all & know-it-all is starting to wear a bit thin. Shows quite an imagination, to be sure, but it's getting kind of creepy (in a stalker-ish kinda way).

There are at least FIVE instances of these. Once can happen to anybody. I'll even accept twice. Five...?????





Yeah. Maybe his dad sees things his way.

You mean JB's Father is the open-minded sort? Who'd a thunk it!

I quit many jobs, and most of the time either I or the employer was left in a huff. Either way, so what? It isn't like most people leaving a job in huff matters. Tell me people, how many are fired or leave acrimoniously that you care enough about to write about?

Certainly Byrne isn't alone. And hell, I know people that change jobs many times a year, because there aren't the long term fulfilling jobs that there used to be.

And I'll tell you why you all care, because Byrne stopped doing the books you like and you are angry and/or jealous. Me, I just think most work sucks the soul out of me. I can write for 80 hours a week with precious little reward, but make me bag groceries for 12 hours a week and I am declaring it the holocaust.

Any way, sorry for the rant. Carry on.

Unlike Byrne, you appear honest and self-aware enough to acknowledge this and admit it. Byrne, however, has stormed off of a number of assignments and as with other aspects of his behavior, will wonder publicly and angrily why he has a reputation for doing exactly what he does.





Given the way the man draws nowadays... and the way he writes... I'm pretty glad he's not on the books that I like.

Both rather goodly argued points.

I was under the impression that Byrne's books of late tended to get canceled (X-MEN: THE HIDDEN YEARS, DOOM PATROL, BLOOD OF THE DEMON, etc., etc.), not that he was quitting.

again, well played.

Those sure did get canceled. But the there's the All-New Atom, the Superman Returns adaptation...

I can see how you might think Byrne's old quitting was better, but he's still quite a prolific quitter in his own right.