It's weird that the American comic industry was locked into one kind of story told in one kind of way for like four decades before alternatives started popping up, off the back of Frederick Wertham arguing that comics were causing moral degeneracy in America's youth, so most everything beyond ultra sanitized superhero comics died for about 20 years.
I've loved superhero comics for over a decade, but I'm starting to realize I don't really want to stick around. It always comes back to the same characters and the same plot beats, and I'm seeing those in other mediums that aren't sold at $4 a pop. Characters I love now won't go through meaningful growth or development, and eventually they'll become as tired too, only new characters can't come in either because the audience still reading superhero comics wants the same characters in their most iconic state.
Anyway I don't really know if "artists owning their creations means we wouldn't see them later" is the greatest way to put it either, in an industry where the real creator of Batman was sold out by his co-author and died penniless and officially unacknowledged until the last decade, and the obvious counterpoint is that Frank Miller could have still written Daredevil, he'd just be writing the characters of Stan Lee and Bill Everett, not Marvel's.
