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‘Do you really care about a book that’s been gone for several months?’

nope

my money is thin, i will not bother with a book that can’t stay on schedule. i used to say ‘oh, i will get it when its complete’ but to be totally honest, there’s enough going on that i rarely ever do anymore

Of course I’m getting this

Sadly, when a Marvel title is late and/or doesn’t ship in a particular month, readers generally have no idea if the title’s even coming back. For the last several years, Marvel’s policy has been not to inform readers of a cancellation, but rather to let the title die with no notice. A title misses a couple months, we don’t know it’s status. That makes it hard to get emotionally and financially invested in a title.

Good to hear it’s coming back. Hope everything is alright.

If only there were some way for editors not to release the first issue of a series until they had the first six issues completed. But it’s impossible, I assume.

1. Ugh. That page is pretty much what I hate about modern comics and their cinematic pretensions.

2. “Our creators have lives outside of comics, and sometimes those lives have difficulties that can get in the way of writing or drawing”

I don’t think there is any other area of entertainment where that would be acceptable. I’m not sure if that says something positive for how comic creators are treated or is a negative statement on how rinky-dink the whole industry is.

Mike

I recently binged the acclaimed Prez mini from DC and was mildly dismayed that a middle issue of that mini was by a different artist. Fortunately I paid nothing for it so standards are sufficiently adjusted. But philosophically I think I’d rather have a delay than an artist change.

The first issue of Karnak I did purchase with designs on the brief affair that is a Marvel Ellis project. This complicates things…and that’s exactly why I deigned to indulge in a mini, even one as rare as a Warren Ellis mini…that it wasn’t going to be complicated. It was going to be quick and rapturous and over before I realized I don’t do minis until they’re released and in my hands and being read all at once.

At least it didn’t happen in the middle before I snapped out of it. Trade it is then. I wish Zaffino well and hope everything is alright.

I think this is week three.

You’re being a bit harsh on Ant-Man. It’s not quite up to Superior Foes level of plotting and humor, but I find it a very easy and enjoyable read. I’m a big fan of Nick Spencer generally.

I loved Charles Soule on Swamp Thing and especially She-Hulk, but his work on Wolverines and Inhumans has left me absolutely cold.

I really enjoy Ant-Man, so if this is more of the same I will pick it up. To each their own!

As far as Soule’s Marvel work, I really liked Death of Wolverine and She-Hulk and have enjoyed Inhumans. Wolverines was a mess. I look forward to Daredevil.

I liked the pre-Secret Wars Spencer Ant-Man enough to follow it here. This new series has more of the Cinematic Universe feel about it–which didn’t end up being “in a good way” despite enjoying the movie. It seemed perfectly fine for what it was but I just don’t see myself buying what amounts to me as a movie tie-in book. More for everyone else.

Oh Karnak. Was there any doubt the two bankable talents Marvel still has in Aaron (signed to an exclusive) and Ellis (Stalin dictates) actually deliver? Which is yet another nice gateway drug to…

The Inhumans. Like many I couldn’t seem to get into Soule’s Inhuman. Along with Karnak and Ms. Marvel I attempted one last triangulation on the property (Inhuman enough?) with Uncanny as the observable condition and sadly I detected no improvement in my enjoyment.

I’m at 3 ongoings and 1 miniseries so far.