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More self-pimping whorebaggery.  If you don't like it please place your faith in my eternal damnation, and karmic balance shall be swiftly restored.

First: an apology.  I'd expected Gutsville Issue #3 to be out on shelves at least a month ago.  Due to a series of unforseen Real World nastinessess that have befallen my long-suffering Pencil Monkey, delays have mounted with frightening rapidity.

But Be Not Afraid.  The third installment in the official BEST COMIC STORY* EVER should be with us shortly after the birth-pains of 2008 have passed.

To whet your appetites we've prepared a mucus-spattered preview to keep you smiling.  Cherish its gastric ickiness during the long Christmas Drought.

MAKE IT PUKE!







* (set inside a giant stomach)

Link: ISSUE 3 - SNEAK PEEK

Looks great!

Golly!  Right, I'm off to re-read the first two.  I can't believe it's only up to No. 3, there's a whole world in those first two issues...

Good stuff. I was starting to think I'd missed the 3rd issue.

Am I the only person who is fed up of starting collecting comics which then end up being constantly delayed?

I picked up issue 3&4 of the unfunnies a few months back. They had a delay of about 3 years!!!

UKD --  I think I can say with some confidence that you're definitely not as fed up of it as we are.

God has a serious grudge against us finishing Gutsville, ever, and every time a page is completed it's a minor antimiracle.

All we can really do is apologise to the readers, promise we're trying as hard as we can, and work our hands raw to keep that momentum going.

Plus, y'know...  There's always the TPB.  Eventually.  Probably.  

Spur: I didn't mean to sound like I was having a go at your publication in particular (there are many, many others, which have been delayed for much, much longer), I've only just received #2- which I had to have shipped in from USA, as my regular UK store couldn't find it.

Why do publishers publish limited series before they've been completed?

Do creators get paid once completed, or whenever they turn in x number of pages?

The way some of the major publishers treat their customers is shocking, and in any other business would be totally unacceptable. Would you buy a novel one chapter at a time, if there was the chance that the book would be delayed, possibly forever? Or a ham sandwhich, before the pig had been slaughtered (extreme example, I know).

In all honestly, I can understand when readers say they prefer to wait for the enevitable TPB, at last then, when they buy a completed story, and don't feel they've spent money on something that will potentially never be finished.

I can't speak for Si or Fraze, but on the image book, creators get paid several months after the books are published. And even then, it may not be a great deal of money.

This means, in order to do an image book, you have to be doing something else to pay the bills. Which will always take priority.

Fearless had practically three issues drawn before it was solicited (which took about 8 months), but my day job, my wife being preggers (and really, really ill with it) and my having to look after a three year old means that issue four barely scraped under the deadline. And even then, that's because I'd declined paying work just to get fearless finished - something that'd I'd've found unsustainable over a longer period.

Having said that: no-body wants a book to be late. Especially the creators. It destroys any audience you may have gathered up, diminishes your own interest in your own book and makes the readers less than happy.


-pj

There's too many laughs in this thread...

PJ, so your wife is having a bad pregnancy also, let her know my household has her sympathy. From the start my wife was ill and it hasn't stopped, with just over a month to go she (and me) just cant wait for it to end. She has already said if our first was like this one he would have been an only child. At least she has been off chocolates and sweets much to my benefit as they make her sick.



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I'll keep reading it.

Hang in there, chaps.

NO offense, but what fucking momentum?

It is good stuff and there's a cover that'd make a blind man sit up and take notice! Look to tha'self youth!

Speaking personally, I'd rather see a good book come out late than a bad book every fortnight.  And Gutsville, Spurrier's pitiful whoring aside, is bloody excellent.  Gripping, original and beautiful in a sick and twisted intestinal way.   I'm happy to wait 6 months for an issue of the gorgeous Age of Bronze or City of Stones, and I'm happy to wait as long as it takes for an issue of Gutsville.  

Finally! Been waiting for this for ages. Gutsville is one of the only US titles I'm buying at the moment. Can we expect issues four to six to be released relatively soon-ish or, uh, less irregularly?

I'm still waiting for issue 3 of Big Numbers...

Best of luck with the sprog dropping sounds similar to what happened in our hoose many moons ago (with the added bonus that her Huffness was self employed so no shilly shalling before or after striaght back into the paddy field of work, poor thing)

Looking forward to Gutsville 3: Make it Puke!

Gutthuff

Speaking personally, I'd rather see a good book come out late than a bad book every fortnight.

You're right. I didn't set out to be nasty, although it does look that way. Sorry.

++ Gutsville is one of the only US titles I'm buying at the moment. ++

*ahem* a US title? ;)

Atleast it's not as irregular as the Wintermen.

I'm thinking US Publisher = US Title.

Yup, that's what I meant. Image is an American publisher ergo yadda yadda yadda and so forth.

I'll see your Wintermen (Issue 5, 6, Special, or whatever they decide), and raise you Planetary #27.