Hitman in New 52????????????

[Darrell D.]

Ennis seems to be concentrating on his own creations, and if he comes back to work at one of the big two, I doubt it would be the current DC.

[FanboyStranger]

As for Mishkin and Amethyst, he refers to it as a 'creator participation deal'.

Who knows what that means, but I took it to be of the same ilk as those that followed, as it had fundamentally the same goal, and at the time none of the creators discussed were the sensations that they are today (except, perhaps, Grant Morrison) so they didn't necessarily warrant better contracts.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=39418"God knows Gary and Ernie and I have a much better contractual relationship with DC over "Amethyst" than many of our predecessors had over their creations. Paul Levitz, with Jenette and Dave I'm sure, too, instituted a creator participation deal that was really tremendously progressive for what had gone on before. So Ernie and Gary and I will receive twenty percent of whatever DC takes in on ancillary stuff, any licensed "Amethyst" stuff. That's not a bad deal; if there's any TV or movie, we get money. What we don't get is creative control. We made that decision with our eyes wide open, but it was hard to know what that was going to feel like."

As I understand it, that's more in line with the higher royalty deals that Kahn and Levitz pushed for in the '80s. The "creator participation" deals I'm talking about are from the '90s, and do feature creative control for specific characters created for the series. It's similiar to Neil Gaiman's "handshake deal", but it's actually in writing. It was a way to get new characters in the DCU, but still insure that the creators were protected from someone coming in and changing/killing their characters.

[FanboyStranger]

Ennis seems to be concentrating on his own creations, and if he comes back to work at one of the big two, I doubt it would be the current DC.

He does have his Fury Max series going at Marvel at the moment. I believe it's supposed to be two seven issue minis. It's really, really good.