From yesterday’s front page chat with Tom Brevoort and Matt Fraction:
Fraction: Does that make Fear Itself the first event that shipped entirely on time?
Brevoort: If #7 comes out when it’s supposed to. We’re right on target, everything’s there; all the epilogue stuff is done. There’s still act of god, but it’d be the first one at least in my tenure to have all come out on time.
Didn’t Flashpoint ship entirely on time?
I’m not being snarky, I’m genuinely curious; I thought it did, but maybe I’m forgetting a week’s slippage somewhere or something… I know it definitely ended on time – double-shipping in its final month, too – and all of the tie-ins shipped on time. But did DC’s summer event steal the dubious crown from right under Fear Itself‘s nose?
September 21st, 2011 at 7:44 am
Yes. Flashpoint was all on time.
September 21st, 2011 at 9:03 am
I think Blackest Night was also all on time. There was a planned skip-month, but I remember being impressed with the coordination between “Blackest Night” proper and Green Lantern. There was no way either of those could be late without throwing off the other.
September 21st, 2011 at 9:14 am
When he mentioned his tenure I took him to mean it’s the first an event book he was involved with was on time.
September 21st, 2011 at 9:44 am
Yeah, I got the impression the were just talking about Marvel events.
September 21st, 2011 at 10:14 am
Yes, Brevoort seemed to be referring to his own products only. Revealing quotes from the Newsarama interview:
Contempt for readers generally doesn’t get people very far.
SRS
September 21st, 2011 at 10:48 am
“Oh my god! We had a plan! Look at that! Holy smokes, it was actually going somewhere!”
Would have been nice if that had been true of any number of OTHER Marvel events during the past DECADE.
Brevoort SHOULD be worried by the fact that Marvel has dropped the ball so CONSISTENTLY in these sorts of stories that most people now EXPECT it.
At this point, it’s the height of entitlement for Marvel to believe that they DESERVE the benefit of the doubt from their own audience.
As much as I STILL disagree with the DCnU reboot, even *I* will give DC credit for not taking their audience’s support for granted to this degree.
September 21st, 2011 at 2:31 pm
If they purposefully write stuff simply to enrage the readers…then mission accomplished.
September 21st, 2011 at 7:24 pm
2005-2011 see above