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yendiQuote from Joss Whedon on Fray:
"Oh God, I will [finish], I promise, I'm sorry," Whedon said in an interview. "I don't know the date. I think I'm just marginally ahead of the artist on pages, because he went to CrossGen [Comics], and because my life imploded. We both got really behind. I'm so embarrassed about it, but it will only take me a couple of weeks to finish the last issue and a half that I have left to write. Then it's a question of how we can schedule him to do the pages. I really want to get it out. I'm very embarrassed about that. I've known the ending since I've started it. All I have to do is write it down."
You heard that right. He hasn't fucking finished writing the series, and the art is in limbo. This is a fucking eight-issue mini-series, but they couldn't plan for it properly.
Folks, it's things like this that are driving folks away from the industry. It's things like this that are making folks decide to wait for the graphic novels, because we can't rely on companies to produce the issues in a timely manner, and we don't want to wait on a cliffhanger for eight months.
I actually blame the publisher more than I blame Joss. Joss may have time management issues, but Mike Richardson (head of Dark Whore) was the one who decided to solicit the series before it was finished. He's the one who made a judgement call on his freelancers, and decided that they could turn in something in a timely manner, and he was clearly wrong. I don't hold the creators responsible because that's a contract between them and the publisher, but I do think there's an implicit contract between the publishers and me, and too many of them break it.
Next time I hear Joe Quesada or any other pro whine about folks who just wait for the graphic novels, I'm going to whap him upside the head with a copy of The Dark Knight Strikes Again #2, shove a copy of Fray #6 where the sun don't shine, and pick any random issue of Quesada and Smith's Daredevil run to shove down his throat.
"Oh God, I will [finish], I promise, I'm sorry," Whedon said in an interview. "I don't know the date. I think I'm just marginally ahead of the artist on pages, because he went to CrossGen [Comics], and because my life imploded. We both got really behind. I'm so embarrassed about it, but it will only take me a couple of weeks to finish the last issue and a half that I have left to write. Then it's a question of how we can schedule him to do the pages. I really want to get it out. I'm very embarrassed about that. I've known the ending since I've started it. All I have to do is write it down."
You heard that right. He hasn't fucking finished writing the series, and the art is in limbo. This is a fucking eight-issue mini-series, but they couldn't plan for it properly.
Folks, it's things like this that are driving folks away from the industry. It's things like this that are making folks decide to wait for the graphic novels, because we can't rely on companies to produce the issues in a timely manner, and we don't want to wait on a cliffhanger for eight months.
I actually blame the publisher more than I blame Joss. Joss may have time management issues, but Mike Richardson (head of Dark Whore) was the one who decided to solicit the series before it was finished. He's the one who made a judgement call on his freelancers, and decided that they could turn in something in a timely manner, and he was clearly wrong. I don't hold the creators responsible because that's a contract between them and the publisher, but I do think there's an implicit contract between the publishers and me, and too many of them break it.
Next time I hear Joe Quesada or any other pro whine about folks who just wait for the graphic novels, I'm going to whap him upside the head with a copy of The Dark Knight Strikes Again #2, shove a copy of Fray #6 where the sun don't shine, and pick any random issue of Quesada and Smith's Daredevil run to shove down his throat.
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I was using League as part of my undergraduate thesis on postmodernism in comic books. I wrote the first chapter, which was due in December, on the first four issues. I figured by April, when the rest was due, I'd have the whole thing to write on. I didn't even have issue #5.
And anything by Kevin Smith... as much as I worship him, the man is a worse procrastinator than I am.
(Of course, I wait for graphic novels because they hold up better. Barry Ween Gorilla Warfare!! Wooo-hooo!! Of course all the copies at Criminal Records were banged up and I told Rick he'd have to order me a fresh one -- yes, this is how neurotic I am about my books.)
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Date: 2002-06-25 08:24 am (UTC)Aside from "League", the worst example of a late comic that I can think of is Ben Edlund's "The Tick". It's been what, six, seven years since issue #12 and the man STILL hasn't admitted that he's never coming out with a #13....it's always "Someday....". Not to mention that it was one year from #11 to #12. :)
cheers,
Phil
non sequitur
Date: 2002-06-25 08:57 am (UTC)Small world or what?
Bethy
also wants to get more into indie comics