Marcdachamp said:
I'm grateful that Nightwing was spared, but not even explaining it? That's lazy, as is releasing something that you plan to change in a few months. On this board, I hear how Marvel's all about the money and DC cares more about the fans. Well, here, Marvel delays something, LOSING money, in order to make sure a good product is released, while DC just rushes it out so their precious 52 can come out on time.
I agree. I just read in WIZARD #180 about how the IC trade will have those "redrawn" scenes not only including Nightwing, but "the Batman family vs. Deathstroke", which woulda been nice to see. And then I got mad, like you. I bought IC all the way through, heck, it was because of that whole event that I've even bothered to be reading a lot of DC books over the past 2-3 years. IC #7 was already a month or so behind and it was fans like me who bought the monthly issue that helped DC actually win out over Marvel in May, the last month of IC. The industry would collapse in a heartbeat if every fan got wise and "waited for the trade". And now DC justifies this practice with their additions to the IC trade. If they wanted to make nice, they could offer the "trade" versions of the last issue or two of IC for maybe half the price. But they won't. Either you have to make due with your "rushed" climax, or shell out $30 for the trade, collecting 97% of pages you already have.
This naturally adds to the dilemma of "timely over quality", and honestly it wouldn't be a problem if DC hadn't announced what they were doing for the trade. It gives people a good reason to "double dip" on the trade, as some do, but it makes those of us who bought the last issues feel cheated. You're absolutely right, if Marvel had done this, there'd be people on the MB who'd be waging jihad and strapping metaphorical explosives to their chests. But apparently DC's sins, aside for ALL-STAR issues, can be forgiven.
TheCorpulent1,
Phaedrus45, Darthphere, Doc Destruction, and at times
BrianWilly are the only folks I've seen who will actually call DC on their crap when they do it.
Granted, Marvel and DC could avoid all of these hassles if they employed enough artists for their event books. Like 2-3 regular ones, planned for the start. That way when one gets swamped about 2 issues in, the other steps up. And all this is announced and planned in advance. It factors into the schedule. But neither company would do that. It's too intelligent and simple.
And frankly, delaying CW for Marvel won't really cost them anything because stores will overorder the issues of them when they come out anyway. At worst some of the tie-in sales may slip, but I honestly doubt they will. ULTIMATES 2 has been shipping late about every 3-5 months and issues of that sell in the Top 15, every time. The end of EVIL THAT MEN DO sold well. Although I honestly am not as irked by the delay of the CW stuff as some people are, solely because it allows me to get a break from being smothered in CW storylines, which is appreciated. The agruements on both sides and the general tone of the story had been overdone so much by the midway point I felt I was drowning in the liberal-jerking, cynically dark tale. Now I've had about a month to catch my breath and I appreciate that. You can only take so much death, destruction and character rape at a time. What DC's done with the end of IC in trade is honestly a mistake to me, and at least for once, FOR ONCE, Marvel seems to have looked at something DC did, and NOT imitated it, actually going, "Wait, this didn't work". Because lord knows they don't do that in other areas. I mean, "Electro Superman" and "Unmasked Flash" are stories that DC did, made a stink about and then eventually swept under the rug, and Marvel learned nothing and did the exact same thing to Spider-Man, which will have the exact same conclusion.
