Fresh off of his Eisner Award win for Best Writer, James Tynion IV announced on his Substack newsletter that he is both starting a new creator-owned series on Substack and that he will be leaving DC to focus on his creator-owned work.

The writer mentioned that doing his DC work as well as his creator-owned work has basically been like two full-time jobs the last two years, with the DC work supporting his experimenting in the independent projects, but his new Subtack contract offer would allow that to become his new "day job" instead of DC, so he had to make a choice and ultimately, he decided to choose the work that he owns himself.

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After first giving an update on his recent success (as his newest book launch, The Nice House on the Lake, has been a major success, and his other creator-owned projects have all been doing really well, sales-wise, while he has been working on TV adaptations of a number of his properties, as well), he explained that he had come to a turning point in his life, "[I]n the midst of all of that, I was trying to make one of the most difficult decisions of my professional life. DC had presented me with a three-year renewal of my exclusive contract, with the intent of me working on Batman for the bulk of that time. I was grateful of the offer, but I couldn’t help but look at the success of my original, creator owned titles and wonder if it was the right choice.

And then I received another contract. The best I’ve ever been given in a decade as a professional comic book writer. A grant from Substack to create a new slate of original comic book properties directly on their platform, that my co-creators and I would own completely, with Substack taking none of the intellectual property rights, or even the publishing rights.

Given my bandwidth, I knew I could only pick one of two contracts sitting in front of me."

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He then revealed what his decision was, "Which is a lot of preamble to say that I am going to be leaving BATMAN with Issue #117 in November, and THE JOKER with Issue #14 next April, with no immediate plans to write any other superhero comics in the near future.

Instead, I’m going to dedicate my whole brain to building a bunch of really cool stuff on my own terms, without having to get permission from any publisher to make it."

Tynion goes into much greater detail on his thought process in the newsletter itself, so feel free to give it a read.

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