(All apologies to Mr. Spurgeon)
1) Seth Fisher doesn’t go on that roof and does a Mazzucchelli into alternative comics.
2) Frank Santoro stays on as Fracesco Clemente’s assistant and becomes an acclaimed painter with a side interest in comics.
3) Shirow never gets into computers and instead figures out plot. His new serial is the biggest seller of the 2000s US manga boom.
4) ‘Denise’ allows Chester Brown to draw the more interesting version of Paying for It focused on their relationship.
5) Moebius draws a fairly straightforward autobio comic in the early 2000s that does gangbusters in the wake of Persepolis. Pantheon can afford to put most of his work into print in English.