Joe Quesada: Failing By Example
Over at the ‘Rama, Marvel has announced that the Spider-Man: One More Day event is being delayed further.
The reason hasn’t been given, but the odds on favorite is that the Editor in Chief is late with his pencils, again. How can you take him seriously as an EiC when he says that he is sorry about delays and is doing everything to stop them, but decides to take this art gig when he’s fully aware that he has way too much on his plate to keep to a decent schedule? It is just irresponsible, in my opinion.
One of the big fears I have now is Joe bragging about how the Spider-Man: Brand New Day stays completely on schedule for a significant clip of time, when they now have even more lead time to prepare and makes it no big brag-worthy deal.
It’s a crying shame, I tell ya…
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:50 pm
You can just imagine the amount of flak and criticism he will get if/when New Joe’s Fridays returns. There will be everything from people saying the he lied to his customers when he was “well on top of things” to others saying he was greedy to take the project on himself in order to secure future royalties.
I’m a big Marvel guy and delays don’t bother me that much as they are only comics after all and there are ample things to fill the time, it’s more the fact that they keep deceiving us time after time by soliciting books well before they are done. I’m just glad I’m not picking up the likes of Astonishing X-Men and I wonder how many will call for his head over this fiasco. It’s like the blind leading the blind.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:57 pm
*groan* He spent all that time working on it just for this?
October 24th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
I’ve never liked delays. Why would anyone that calls themselves a professional take on an assignment they can’t complete on time? It’s not a rhetorical question, even though the rhetorical answer would be ‘the money’.
I think it takes a lot of wind out of the sails of a project. You get left on a really sweet cliffhanger, then the issue doesn’t come on time, then you get pissed, then you don’t care. It happened with Civil War. It was sweet then it just got delayed. When a new issue finally came out I found myself thinking ‘Well, this was OK but was it worth waiting 2 months for?’
Long story short I’d rather see less than stellar art and get a book once a month than see the artist that was ‘born to do the project’ bumblefuck a year for a 4 issue segment.
How in the world can John Romita Jr come out with 2 books a month, or Mark Bagley, yet these so called great artists can’t?