All Larsen, all the time: Erik Larsen seems to be making the rounds this week. Now he's talking to Silver Bullet Comic Books and Digital Webbing about -- you guessed it -- the departure of Powers and Kabuki, the future of Image Comics, and the benefits of creator ownership:

"I think it's pretty obvious what benefits there are to owning your own characters. Not only can you decide what you want to do in your book but for those inclined to do so there are other avenues to explore as well. From t-shirts to toys and motion pictures to video games. Sure, it's fun to work on Batman or Spider-Man but when a Batman or Spider-Man movie is made, the people working on those titles don't benefit from that. It's nice to work for a company that takes no ancillary rights of any sort and lets creators own their creations fully. Even small independent companies that you'd think wouldn't take such things are cutting themselves in for a huge piece of the action. We don't do that."