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** Upon being inexplicably hired by DC immediately thereafter (presumably dodging villagers armed with [[Torches and Pitchforks]] on the way across Manhattan), Austen gave an interview where he made ''very'' unflattering comments about Lois Lane. His opinions of her influenced the Superman books he wrote, too. This didn't win him any fans; he didn't last long, and the changes he made were ignored or retconned.
** His work in ''Avengers'' depicted Wasp having an affair with Hawkeye due to the time Hank Pym slapped his wife. This actually contradicted a few decades worth of stories involving the mental trauma causing Hank to lash out, the implication that Hank was always abusive (something other writers have been guilty of as well), the fact that Hawkeye has always been good friends with Hank and even refused to date Wasp while they were divorced, and that Hank and Wasp has reconciled in recent years and were happily remarried.
* Greg Land's recent "art", which mainly consists of tracing off porn, magazine covers, and even [[Self -Plagiarism|his own artwork]] (which was also traced off porn). Note that we're talking about his ''mainstream'' work for Marvel here, not anything advertised as porn. A typical reader response: [[Big Word Shout|"LLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNDDDDDDD!!!!!"]] The worst part of it is that some people have looked up his pre-trace art and found that it was fairly good. Land was a legitimate up-and-coming artist at [[DC Comics]] with good runs on both ''[[Birds of Prey]]'' and ''[[Nightwing]]'', but it all went to hell when he got to Marvel.
** In one of the Wizard drawing books, he explains the use of reference in drawing comics. Thing is, he showed reasonable ways to do it (using a picture of an ice skater for a drawing of a girl flying), and the comic drawings were different enough from the references for it to be considered ''his'' drawing. Now, he simply traces his reference pictures, and in later drawing books, he flat-out traces. [http://jimsmashextended.blogspot.com/2008/07/greg-land-tracing-swiping-recycling.html You can see some of this here.]