Quote from: SM on Sep 12, 2018, 03:28:31 AM
Delayed comics doesn't generally bother me, but it's still unprofessional. Be easier to just set out a more realistic schedule from the outset.
I am not advocating lateness for its own sake. The editor should have strong enough curation abilities to make a judgment call if they have something truly amazing on their hands, and allow it more time. Heck, they could use it as a marketing feature. The publisher could say that extra time was needed to do something the right way. Almost consistently, when this happens, the results are amazing.
I suspect this is what happened with Tristan Jones and Defiance recently. The company wanted to stick to the schedule at all costs, and they drove the artist away who was putting in their heart and soul into the work. The big money making machine has to keep rolling right? I would say that this is the bigger problem. Movies, music, comics, books, these are all artistic endeavors. They don't actually need to show up on time for humanity to exist, like food, shelter, etc. The application of ideas like professionalism, timeliness are in truth arbitrary and serve the moneymaking aspect of the enterprise, but not necessarily the end product itself. The Defiance comics could have all come out late, with Tristan's work and they would have been timeless classics, but instead, they ended up as more punctual drivel.