Mr. Davis I've been a big fan of yours since I discovered Excalibur #1 as a wee lad.
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1.) I understand that you absolutely LOVE the Marvel Universe and seem perfectly content working on those characters all the time, and as a fan of your work I certainly don't mind seeing you do it. But there have been many occasions when, through the politics of working for the big corporation, you abruptly stopped work on a fan favorite series, thus plunging it into the mire. For example when you stopped working on Excalibur and ClanDestine I almost dropped dead. Your work on both of those books was absolutely BRILLIANT (and I disagree with wanting to see you collaborate with another writer... you're one of the best writers out there in your own right, definitely) and I frequently find myself wishing that you had self-published ClanDestine as well as Kylun, Feron, Necrom, etc.
Would you consider self-publishing an original, ClanDestine-like graphic novel series (like my own Monsters 101) to have printed through www.lulu.com or another Print-On-Demand service? With your super-strong fan base you could easily be financially independent through such a project, and it would free up your time to work on dream projects for your beloved Marvel as they came up to you. You would also have the freedom to work on projects like John Carter of Mars as you wished for any other company. And of course you could easily negotiate to do crossovers with your creator-owned characters and Marvel characters if you really felt that burning desire.
Please what are your thoughts on the subject? I personally know wealthy artists who reside in the Raleigh, NC area whose sole success is that they maintain a data base of fans/customers a couple thousand deep that they keep abreast of any upcoming projects they have coming out. Your list of die-hard-we'll-buy-anything-Alan-spits-out-fans is waaaay longer than a couple of thousand! PLEEEEEASE think about it if only to just give you artistic freedom, okay? please?
2.) Yes, that was only one question! What?
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I know it's impossible, but if you ever did a Dying Earth comic book adaption, trust me you'd sell a trillion copies from the Davis fans as well as the legion of Vance fans. Think about it!
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