MyPokerShirt said:
It's just one month late. He has a point. Surely you all have lives and can wait an extra month? Where in the bible, the constitution or the geneva convention (which i keep calling the genosha convention... in public) does it say it has to come out every month?? Movies are delayed; books are delayed; house payments are delayed; freaking international peace treaty summits are delayed and people don't kick up this much fuss! It sucks, i know, and Hitch seems to be acting like an *******, but he was clearly replying to arrogant, onna get flamed.
A little late but wanted to comment on this, and there is a big difference. A certain director may only make one movie a year, comics come out once a month, some writers/artists work on several at a time, so let's say one artist works on 4 comics a month making it roughly 1 a week. This can't be compared to a movie that comes out late because a movie has far more details and much more that goes onto it, one part doesn't work and a whole movie may need to be re-arranged. A comic on the other hand is more akin to a weekly TV series, and this overall is like every other episode of Lost being a week or two late after it premiers. The TV fans would be ticked, and most would watch it less and less causing overall ratings to fall, and if the maker or director or whatever came out and said "How about instead of waiting for the new episode you all go get laid", there'd be a backlash (and possibly cause it's cancellation in the long run).
Marvel is a buisness, when it delivers its products late often, that is bad buisness and will only hurt it. When ppl like him insult the fans who lash out, it doesn't resolve anything but to tick off and rile up the fans who lash out even more. If ppl start to know marvel by it's lateness and smart ass employess that will hurt it, even if a late comic is hardly a big thing. If I went to a local McDonalds and everytime I ordered anything it was 10 mins late and the cashier said crap to me when I asked if it was almost done, I'd start going to Burger King.
Edit- Also this is what's hurt other companies. Look at Mcfarlane's group, while I never followed anything but spawn, they were basically a lot of young talent that left other comic book companies to start their own. At the start it was great, but over time with all the uppity 'creative' artists all grouped together making their own deadlines and so on, books became later and later. I've heard a lot of ppl complain about that, and you hardly hear about them anymore, where as once they could have been the third huge company rivaling Marvel and DC. Marvel for the most part has been good about releases, but if they start letting ppl getting their work in late, then giving smart ass remarks about it it'll slowly become acceptable. Holding a great company to it's own standard isn't over reacting, when a product allows little things to happen and slip ups to occur they only hurt themselves and their product. The fans buy it, and as the customers they have the right to complain when they there's problems with the product.
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