Why Steve Ditko Quit

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• CO

  @ComicTropes · 8 years ago · pinned

  Correction: I pulled an image of comic book artist Jack Cole (Plastic Man) that was labeled as Steve Ditko. I should have caught it, but it's in there. Oops.

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• JU

  @JunoAuerWatson · 7 years ago

  I love the irony that 3 of his creations were inspirations for several of main charaters in Watchmen, which is kind of Grey Area: the Book.

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• VA

  @VaniacV · 7 years ago

  Now everything makes sense ...for him, Stan Lee was either good or evil ...he decided evil. <br>... In order to make his characters interesting Stan made them imperfect, with flaws ... I can&apos;t imagine the constant confrontation between those 2 minds, so different.

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• MI

  @MiggySmalls714 · 7 years ago

  Ditko sounds like how I was in high school...I&apos;m really glad I changed.

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• CE

  @Cernunnnos · 7 years ago (edited)

  I&apos;d always kind of assumed Ditko was just some old hippy that Stan had found at Woodstock who he asked to draws his acid flash backs in Dr Strange.<br><br>To learn that he was a dry as boot leather objectivist (of all things) is actually fucking hilarious.

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• TU

  @TupocalypseShakur · 5 years ago

  Objectivism seems to encourage stepping over everyone around in order to satisfy yourself. It&apos;s like the justification of selfishness

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• KI

  @kidkunjer · 8 years ago (edited)

  ironic that his unwillingness to create grey-area characters created psychopathic anti-heroes...

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• LA

  @Larry · 7 years ago

  I wonder what Ditko would have done if he could have created a storyline for Judge Dredd?

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• FR

  @frankfontaine8817 · 4 years ago

  When you revealed Snyder is an objectivist it all clicked for me as to why his portrayal of Superman was so off. &nbsp;This was a fascinating study of an important figure in comics and I learned something too so a subscribe from me. &nbsp;Great work.

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• TA

  @Takeshi357 · 7 years ago

  You know, the one thing I&apos;ve always found an admirable trait in a writer is the ability to present people whose moral, religious, political, etc. values the writer might actively disagree with, and <i>still</i> present them in a fair light as real characters with real personalities, instead of just treating them as weak strawmen for the author&apos;s pet characters to debunk.<br><br><br>Ditko seems like the complete antithesis of that.

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• PA

  @paulware4701 · 6 years ago

  Ditko was my favourite artist when I discovered comics back in 1967 and remains so to this day. He&apos;s one of the best visual story tellers in the business, right up there with Kirby. But he really, really couldn&apos;t write. His characters talk like badly written text books - if you read Rand&apos;s books (especially Atlas Shrugged) you can see where he gets it from. His inability to appreciate what Stan Lee brought to his stories was a blindspot that, ultimately, did him no favours. Like too many people (especially nowadays) he couldn&apos;t understand the difference between balance and compromise; a good story must have balance, so that the reader can make up his own mind; towards the end, Ditko wasn&apos;t writing fiction, he was peddling propaganda. But, as I said at the start, he&apos;s still my favourite artist, and his Dr Strange will stand the test of time for as long as comics endure.

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• CD

  @cdubbart · 8 years ago

  I don&apos;t fully agree with Ditko or Ayn Rand&apos;s views, but I respect Ditko greatly for what he accomplished &amp; how he accomplished it.

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