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Joe Mama said:
Does Madueira even do comics anymore???

Frankly, I hope he never draws another book again after he pissed on every single fan of his (myself, at the time, included). Or am I those only one who remembers the neverending wait for the next Battle Chasers before his rush-job ending of the storyline and subsequent "cancellation" of the title? Maybe I imagined the two Wizard articles that gave us, in words and pictures, the figurative "Fuck You" from Joe.

1) The tour of Mad's studio, complete with Playstation adn every other distraction an Image artist needs to not get the job done.

2) "The Joe Madueira Project", where the writer tries to "track down" the "mysteriously missing" (from the comic book scene) artist, only to find Joe at home. Joe's reason for being so late with his books was, to paraphrase: "I'm doing a lot of other things that are more important right now, like video game art and stuff. I'll get back to Battle Chasers some day. But right now, there's a lot more stuff I wanna do. Just wait, though, and I'll get back to comics at some point. Maybe."

Fuck Madueira. Fuck him right in his stupid ass.



And let's not forget the big stink he raised when he drew the Batman sequence in Jeph Loeb's Christmas issue of Superman back in 2000. In his original art, he drew Batman with the yellow halo on his suit, and he refused to redraw the emblem after DC told him the yellow halo had recently been retired [for now, anyway--it'll be back someday] for some stupid reason like "It would ruin the art if I changed it" or something like that. So DC had no choice but to correct the art in-house, which left Madureira in a snit. (I remember this hissy fit being a major topic of anger at the old DC boards, with people calling Madureira on his total lack of professionalism.

It's actually very funny. At one point, Madureira was believed to be the next big innovator in comic book art, a manga-influenced Neal Adams for the 21st century. But boy, did his success go to his head, and frankly, it amuses me to no end that he went from "innovator in the making" to "forgotten flash-in-the-pan" so quickly. I hope he stays away from comics for the rest of my natural life.

Last edited by King Krypton; 2004-05-01 5:29 AM.
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