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A weak pulse, means delayed, not dead!

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Gutsville ninja?



Beautiful stuff as always- *so* looking forward to it's continued run.

Agreed.  Some things are simply worth waiting for.

No matter what John Byrne thinks.

++ No matter what John Byrne thinks. ++

Why? What's he saying?

Actually don't give me a link- life's to short to get bent out of shape over an opinionated hack's ten pennies.

*PLEASE* tell me John Byrne hates Gutsville.  And give me a link.  It'll make my century.

understandable - being disliked by John Byrne would put you up there with Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore and pretty much everyone more successful/interesting than Byrne apart from his mate Frank Miller

Sorry- that's not what I meant.  The mighty Byrne believes that there's no excuse for late books- ever.  

"How about if we just think of it this way: PEOPLE WHO MISS DEADLINES ARE LAZY, ARROGANT, UNPROFESSIONAL C*CKS*CKERS WHO ARE IN NO SMALL WAY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF THE INDUSTRY. AND THE â??FANSâ? WHO SUPPORT THEM ARE BRAINDEAD ELITIST MORONS." (John Byrne- 2004)

And yet, strangely, they are still in demand- whereas John Byrne's main income would appear to come from the many hideous commissions that he regularly fleeces his brain dead fans for.

The industry doesn't seem to have died yet, either...

Byrne's complaint is that too often a book solicited as monthly will not come out as a monthly book, but the writer/artist will say it's because they are working hard on it and the fans will know it's worth it when it arrrives.  His point is to not solicit a book as monthly unless you are going to bring it out monthly.
Something like Fraser having to look after his Mum because she was ill is not the same thing at all.

I'm not a blanket Byrne defender, but in this case you are having a go at him for something he hasn't done.
Chill guys.

Yeah, gotta agree with Byrne on some level about that point. Late books do damage the industry.

To bad book that come out like clockwork (*cough*2000AD*cough*) don't get the recognition they deserve.

I don't disagree that it would be nice to have books out on time- I disagree strongly with Byrne's assessment of anyone who fails- for whatever reason- to meet their deadline.  This includes blasting somebody (possibly Joe Quesada- I can't remember off the top of my head) for missing a deadline due to the death of his father- which, apparently, is no excuse for not getting a book out on time.

Rather than moaning about the artist making the book late, why doesn't the publisher, if he knows an artist can't manage 22 pages per month, simply wait until a few issues are in the bag before soliciting it?  Bryan Hitch is currently something like ten issues ahead on his Fantastic Four run for the simple fact that he's been given plenty of time to get it done, while the current team finish up their arc.  Simple.

My mistake- it was Quesada's mother.

Link: Earth to nincompoop...

I've never read this, but I keep meaning to get around to it. Is there a collection, or is it still too young?

Yer see, that's just the kind of sweeping statement of thorough thoughtlessness and utter spite I was expecting.

Worst than a twelve year old griefer.

I've never read this, but I keep meaning to get around to it. Is there a collection, or is it still too young?

Its only on issue #3 (of 6) it won't get collected until after issue #6. And then only if it sells well in singles I'm sure.

Please have a big fanfare when issue 3 comes out cos there aint been a lot of copies of the last 2 available up here.
If after the wait I miss this then, well, I'll be a bit pissed off, and I'll have to buy it off ebay.

Shouldn't be long now, mate.  Art's finished, lettering's underway at the mo, then as soon as Image can hustle it out it'll be with us.  

You can bet I'll be making a song and dance about it hereabouts when it's time.

I had to import #2 specially from US, as my comic shop couldn't get hold of it.

si, will it be out as a GN soon?i cannot find it anywhere!

UkD - that's weird...  It was distributed through Diamond, same as anything.  

Mogzilla - it'll be a while yet, mate.  It's a 6-part serial, so it should all be collected as a tpb at the end of the run.  But we've only just finished putting together Part 3, so we're probably looking at late spring/early summer.

That said, Fraze has just churned out a bunch of beautiful pages at his usual breakneck speed, so with a little luck we'll remain on target from now on.

(knock wood)

yeah, Si, make a big noise as my trips to the comic shop are occasional to say the least and I wouldn't want to miss it!

Huff

Whereabouts are you in the writing of it Si?
Have you scripted all the way to the end yet or are you and Fraze still adding/changing stuff as it goes?

late spring/early summer is good enough. it will help fill in those gaps between getting any work done on my nvq that i've been forced to go on!

Part 4's all written (and has been for a good 2/3 months).  Now that the art wheels are turning again I'm getting stuck back into part 5.

Boo Cook's done us some wonderful illustrations for the backup text story in Part 3, and we've twisted D'Israeli's invaluable arms into doing the same for part 4.

I think we're probably also going to ask Image to publish Part 1 online in its entirety, to regalvanise things.  Momentum's a biiiig part of this stuff, and ours has stuttered and died.

si, sorry to be a pain in the b hole but my issues 1 and 2 are getting a tad ragged.  any update on issue 3 release date. thanks

Release date = "Soon".  OFFICIAL.