Talk:The Big Blow-Out!/@comment-25892079-20180328214240/@comment-995426-20180908211921

Wingnut II: I don't actually get the impression Peter Laird ran out of ideas. It seems more like he ran out of motivation, in the face of many toxic fans who had nothing but bile for the ideas he did have. When Sophie Campbell first met him while she was doing the cover art for Raphael: Bad Moon Rising (when she was still "Ross"), he didn't know who she was, or anything about the comic she was working on. It seems like he was checked out on most Mirage operations, delegating it to Stephen Murphy or Dan Berger. His abrupt sale of the property to Viacom completely blindsided everyone else at Mirage, and many unreleased projects had to be cancelled even deep into production. I don't think Laird was an unhappy storyteller, but he was an unhappy manager. Since the sale, he says he hasn't read or watched any of the new material, including the IDW comic or the 2012 TV series&mdash;he has no interest in them. I think he just wanted to tell the story he wanted to tell and ended up biting off more than he could chew with his audience, and I sympathize with that.