Chris Arrant makes the case for ceasing ongoing monthly publication, and going to a series-of-mini-series format with comics, a la Hellboy:
For the Big Two it’s hard not to deliver comics month-in, month-out (especially when you actively employ a rotating menagerie of artists on a single book), but it creates a disjointed reading experience for those reading the single issues. Is it a deal-breaker for readers? Obviously not, but it has severely diminished the artistic continuity of books and minimized the importance of a single continuous artistic vision for comics. Instead we get three issues of Artist A, four issues of Artist B, and then a juicy one-off by Artist X. They’re all great in their own right, but imagine if the scheduling were there to allow Artist A, Artist B and Artist X their own space to deliver a larger vision.
That this comes in the wake of finding out that both Avengers and All-New X-Men have new artists within the first six issues of their Marvel NOW runs just makes this piece seem even more timely…
October 19th, 2012 at 8:52 am
But what ruins it’s timeliness is the recent announcement that BPRD & Hellboy will cease their series-of-minis publishing model for a more conventional monthly model. Which is a fact people have been glossing over lately.
Funny.
October 19th, 2012 at 9:01 am
how about hiring artists that are fast and good. and firing artists who aren’t. did anyone ever consider that?
October 19th, 2012 at 10:13 am
Hasn’t Marvel said from the beginning about the different art teams? If so then what is the issue?
October 20th, 2012 at 5:58 pm
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