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Originally Posted by joy_division
Maybe he knows Peter David 
And what do you mean out of spite? did they have a falling out? |
As Peter David tells it - McFarlane was becoming a superstar - when David agreed to let him be the artist on the book he was not very well known - but his Hulk run made people give him a look. MacFarlane really wanted to draw Spidey though - not Hulk - so he asked - and Marvel offered it to him some months later - McFarlane called PD up to tell him that he was leaving the book and PD went a little ape-sh!t - he asked him to consider staying on until Hulk #350 - where he was going to have the big Hulk/Thing showdown - Todd said no thanks - PD basically said that the book was just gaining traction and that as the numbers get higher they can both demand more money from Marvel - with that Todd hung up and said he would never work with PD again. I think his reasoning was that he felt PD was using him to try to get better paid by Marvel. He was under the impression that the only reason the book was selling as well as it was was due to his art - not the stories.
Although he did do the layouts for the next issue McFarlane left before the storyline was even concluded at #346.
This is all pieced together from articles from each party. McFarlane was pretty forthcoming in an article about why he would never work with PD again - and PD has said that he was not pleased and did not understand why Todd would want to leave a book that was gaining momentum - something that no other writer/artist team were able to do with the Hulk book for some time!
PD has a history of artists leaving his books suddenly...
