If I may comic sperg a bit. Imagine frank Miller after he wrote holy terror. Whatever your thoughts on that book are you gotta admit it's dripping with vitriol, anger, and edge and frank wrote it when he was 54...far cry from the 20-30 something he was when he worked on daredevil, batman, and wolverine. But a few years after that he said he "could never write another book like that again." And while his work hasn't gotten better in his old age its nowhere near the wannabe manchild writing of asbar, the legendary meme status of 300, or the iconic purple prose of sin city.
Or take garth Ennis, he used to be the king of comic edge. But compare a new boys comic he wrote to cash in on the popularity of the show. The first issue is mostly talk with some bite to it but it's a far cry from the series that back in 06 opened with A Train ripping the leads love interest litterally from his arms and didn't give a damn about it.
