With DC and Marvel snaffling up talent onto exclusive contracts to such an extent that even newcomers no-one's ever heard of, let alone seasoned hacks, are being signed up, it was only a matter of time before people started taking the piss. And ripping the arse out of it.
Quite right, too. What next? "Tharg to sign exclusive contract with 2000AD"? Which reminds me. Multiple covers? Not on yer nelly, yeh green jessie.