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On Time And Changing History In The Process

September 21st, 2011
Author Graeme McMillan

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?

8 Responses to “On Time And Changing History In The Process”
  1. mbsprime Says:

    Yes. Flashpoint was all on time.

  2. Mike Says:

    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.

  3. Foley Says:

    When he mentioned his tenure I took him to mean it’s the first an event book he was involved with was on time.

  4. Jim Says:

    Yeah, I got the impression the were just talking about Marvel events.

  5. Steven R. Stahl Says:

    Yes, Brevoort seemed to be referring to his own products only. Revealing quotes from the Newsarama interview:

    Nrama: And I think a lot of people who questioned Spider-Man’s decision at the end of #5 were probably relieved by the scene between him and Aunt May this issue.

    Brevoort: “Oh my god! We had a plan! Look at that! Holy smokes, it was actually going somewhere!”

    Fraction: We decided against randomly writing the first things that came into our minds. This time, we really thought about it.

    Brevoort: This is really no surprise to us, and yet, honestly, on some level, the fact that readers get as wound up about this stuff as they do, really, if nothing else, it shows just how invested they are in the characters and the choices they make and what they’re doing.

    Fraction: Tom, I remember you sort of taking me aside after the first issue and expressing that you were a little disappointed that nobody seemed angry yet. Like that’s how you know you’ve really made it, when people are angry. We didn’t seem to have too many people angry after the first issue and that sort of bummed you out on some level. Hopefully we’re making up for it in the clutch.

    Contempt for readers generally doesn’t get people very far.

    SRS

  6. K-Box Says:

    “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.

  7. Sallyp Says:

    If they purposefully write stuff simply to enrage the readers…then mission accomplished.

  8. marvel sucks Says:

    2005-2011 see above

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