Comments on: Nick Spencer and Emma Rios on Marvel’s CLOAK & DAGGER Announced at Kapow

By: Dhaise

Dhaise — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 06:17:17 +0000

“Exclusive,but allowed to work elsewhere”, doesn’t really sound exclusive at all.
Thrilled to see more C&D , and intrigued that Spencer is the one to bring it.

By: Philip A Moore

Philip A Moore — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:49:01 +0000

I would much rather hear that Cloak and Dagger was on going or MAX rather then a miny series I still will look forward to reading this though Nick spencer has one me over big time

By: AJ

AJ — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:15:25 +0000

Wow Luke,

Nick Spencer is far from “untested,” and has received plenty of critical and fan praise for his DC and Image work. If you don’t know who the heck he is, then you should probably lay off the snark.

Willful ignorance is silly. So is expressing a strong, negative opinion when you don’t know WTF you’re talking about.

By: Acrid_Gunsmoke

Acrid_Gunsmoke — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:58:10 +0000

Spencer is Marvel exclusive, yes.

But part of his deal allows him to continue doing Morning Glories for Image and Thunder Agents for DC.

And DC is going to either cancel Thunder Agents when his arc is done or give it to someone else.

Relax, pal.

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 02:06:04 +0000

Who the heck in Nick Spencer anyway? Why are DC and Marvel so hell bent in getting him? And now that he’s Marvel’s exclusive, then the heck is he still allowed to write for DC and Image?

Is Marvel so desperate for new blood and untested talent, that they’ll scoop up any new writers? They did this with Fraction and frankly, I was incredibly underwhelmed with his Uncanny X-Men run. What exactly happened during his run? Did any of signifance happened, other than the X-Men moving to San Francisco??

Seriously, Marvel, are you folks really that desperate?

By: demoncat

demoncat — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:43:15 +0000

nice to see even if its only three issues cloak and dagger back running around the marvel universe. though cloak did hang out with wolverine in his battle with romulus and dagger did keep the x-men company when they were setting up utopia. plus thought marvel had okayed a cloak and dagger series with Valeria d orto

By: Ziyad

Ziyad — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:30:36 +0000

I have no problem with him doing multiple series because brother needs to get payed or needs the work but I don’t want him to do too much lest the quality of his other work drops. But its this and iron man 2.0 so it’s not that much.
I do agree with skulldaggerry because a 5-6 test run would be more efficient in gauging if he and cloak and dagger could support a ongoing and if they cant then 5-6 issues would be a good length to write a complete story on.

By: hmmm

hmmm — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:14:46 +0000

Speaking of ties to Spiderman, in the meh Dark Reign miniseries with Mr. Negative it was revealed the same experiment that gave C & D their powers gave Mr. Negative his. In fact he escaped with them.

By: Rich Johnston

Rich Johnston — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:06:42 +0000

And broken on Bleeding Cool shortly before the announcement,,,

By: Hypestyle

Hypestyle — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 04:18:40 +0000

I would do a Cloak mini-series or one-shot, to focus more on the Tyrone character, he has gotten the short-shrift in attention/development over the years compared to dagger.. one day, I’ll get my story in. it’ll happen..

By: Skullduggery

Skullduggery — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 03:56:30 +0000

3 issue mini-series means nothing.
That doesn’t sound like a company behind a product.
Hell, they’ve launched plenty of new series recently with no real idea of actual support (Black Widow and Hawkeye and Mockingbird being two).
Maybe that means they are finally learning and going the mini-series route to try and gauge support.
But 3 issues? That sounds like serious doubt in terms of audience.
You can’t even get a trade out of that.
If they are not going to give it at least a 5 issue test run (which would give them a small trade to recoup additional monies if the mini fails), then they might as well not even bother.

By: TouchyRogue

TouchyRogue — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 03:18:43 +0000

Since when is there a limit to how many titles a person can write? If he can get his scripts in on time and they’re good there isnt any reason he cant write as many as he can handle, let the man work.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:05:09 +0000

Well, in all honestly, most of the things he’s doing are short term. His Secret Avengers run is only a few issues, sans Morning Glories most of his creator owned is mini-series, his only real honest to god ongoings are Morning Glories, Iron Man 2.0 and Thunder Agents, which is apparently losing him soon. So I think he’s doing fine.

By: Albert Ching

Albert Ching — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:54:33 +0000

Ziyad – well, his Secret Avengers stint is ending in August when Warren Ellis takes over, so presumably this takes that slot in his schedule.

By: comic_dude

comic_dude — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:54:04 +0000

@Ziyad:

That’s because his huge ego demands it… ;-P

By: Ziyad

Ziyad — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:21:46 +0000

This dude has to stop doing so much things at once.
Prioritize man.