In Drawing Crazy Patterns, I spotlight at least five scenes/moments from within comic book stories that fit under a specific theme (basically, stuff that happens frequently in comics). Note that these lists are inherently not exhaustive. They are a list of five examples (occasionally I'll be nice and toss in a sixth). So no instance is "missing" if it is not listed. It's just not one of the five examples that I chose.

Recently, Mark Russell was given permission from DC to shop around Russell's planned Vertigo series, Second Coming, to other publishers after it was canceled at DC. He ultimately got a deal with AHOY Comics to publish it.

That reminded me of some other examples of this sort of thing happening (well, only one was EXTREMELY similar, the other ones were books that were just taken from DC).

THE BOYS

Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's controversial series about a team designed to take down out of control superheroes was just way too violent and envelope-pushing for DC, who published it through their Wildstorm imprint. As soon as the first arc was finished, they allowed Ennis and Robertson to continue the series at Dynamite...

It ran for years and is about to debut on Amazon Prime as a TV series.

LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN

Alan Moore's America's Best Comics line was done through Wildstorm right as they were being purchased by DC, so it was already part of DC before the first issues came out, but while DC/Wildstorm owned most of the characters, Moore and Kevin O'Neill owned League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. They actually stuck it out at DC for a while before Moore got irked at them and took the project to Top Shelf, where they have been publishing League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics ever since...

FALLEN ANGEL

After his Supergirl run ended, Peter David took a lot of the ideas he had for that project and adapted them for a creator-owned series at DC with David Lopez. The series was acclaimed, but the sales weren't good enough to keep it going at DC.

However, DC then let David take the series to IDW, where it continued with David and artist JK Woodward...

BLOODHOUND

Bloodhound, about a framed cop who is released from prison to work for the FBI due to his ability to track down metahumans, was an acclaimed series by Dan Jolley, Leonard Kirk and Robin Riggs. However, it came out right when DC was in the middle of their lead-up to Infinite Crisis and so a title that had nothing to do with any of that stuff was a hard sell at the time and so it ended.

Nine years later, Jolley cut a deal with Dark Horse Comics to not only collect the series but to continue the stories there, with the same original creative team!

PETER CANNON, THUNDERBOLT

This one is tricky. You see, when DC launched Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt in 1992, I am pretty sure they believed that they owned the rights to the character. However, it was then made clear that Pete Morisi, who created the character for Charlton, owned the rights instead. So DC quietly moved on from the character.

Dynamite then cut a deal with Morisi's estate to release a Peter Cannon series in 2012...

Kieron Gillen is currently writing an awesome take on the character right now for Dynamite...

If anyone else has an idea for a future Drawing Crazy Patterns, drop me a line at brianc@cbr.com!