CON JOB (Covering Convention News: Wizard World L.A. Part 5: X-Rated )
It looks like Terry Dodson will quit not-drawing Wonder Woman for DC to start drawing Uncanny X-Men for Marvel. Why the move? “I get paid more,” he explained, jokingly. (God, I hope he was joking). Like a lot of “exclusives” though, this one just excludes him from working with DC, not other publishers who aren’t Marvel, which seems to be a major reason why he took it.
Apparently he’ll be doing every other arc, switching back and forth with another artists. I’ve long thought
that getting two or more artists with similar styles to take turns on arcs was a great way to deal with the potential delays. However, Marvel found an artists whose style looks absolutely nothing like Dodson’s for him to work with—Greg Land.
I think FunnyBook Babylon summed up my own reaction quite well:
http://www.funnybookbabylon.com/2008/03/15/an-impassioned-plea-to-marvel-comics/
March 17th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
The Dodsons should ONLY get paid per page.