The Four Color Media Monitor

The Southeast Missiourian gave some history of veteran writer/editor Roy Thomas, who came from that area, and at the end, it says:

He started professionally in the comic book industry working for DC Comics, but was hired by Lee in 1966 to work for Marvel — where he wrote characters such as Spider-Man, Conan, Daredevil, Captain America, among many others — and in 1972 he took over as editor-in-chief when Lee became publisher. Thomas moved to DC Comics in 1981 and wrote characters such as Superman, the All-Star Squadron and Wonder Woman, among many others. He has continued to work for both publishers, and man others since.

If Thomas does continue to work for the Big Two in any capacity (3 years back, he'd written a Conan prequel) seriously, must he still associate with them, with the terrible way they're going today? Work for the independents, that's surely a better path, but continuing to lend his talents, even at his advanced age, to staffs that have no respect for what Thomas worked on years before, only makes him look absurd. Which could easily describe the situation with plenty of other writers, for that matter.

Thomas would be better off retiring already, but certainly putting some distance between himself and the current Marvel/DC incarnations. Or better still, speaking out against their worst managers. A real shame he's clearly the kind of guy who's a product of his time, and likely won't speak poorly about the places he's working at, or been working for.

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