[rincebrain]

It's also quite possible Hiveworks is getting bought by someone that the creators in question don't want to touch with a long, long pole.

My personal guess, though, would be that Hiveworks wanted creators to sign an updated contract that had some terms around feeding their stuff into genAI and creators who could are NOPEing out of that.

I cannot overstate how much comic creators don't want to touch managing any of this, so n=2 or more of them leaving in a short window is a really, really bad smell.