Stupid and pointless hair splitting -- and exactly the kind of nonsense that these assholes use to justifyl their excesses. 12 issues of ULTIMATES will make more money than 8. Simple math.

More stupidity. This is exactly what Ayn Rand often goes on about, the "looters" -- her word -- who expect to be rewarded for not doing the job they have been hired to do. Tell me if you hired someone to build you a house you would be happy if he left off the back wall, as long as he did a good job on the rest of it.

This is why I feel your one of the greats in comic books JB. You produce great artwork, and stories, and you stand up for what is right. We could always protest the big two. Maybe that would get their attention.

 Tell me if you hired someone to build you a house you would be happy if he left off the back wall, as long as he did a good job on the rest of it.

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That's a pretty cool analogy, JB.

John McMahon wrote:  .... but if forced to chose....

This is where that word "professional" comes into play.  You shouldn't have to choose.  A professional would be able to fulfill their obligations.

That's a great challenge JB but i can't see this happening. Maybe if other proffesionals backed you up it would help. I can just imagine the whole room going silent when you issued the challenge. It reminds me of a line from the Next Men  "you could hear the sound of their asses clenching"

Good on you. 

Anyone remember the original Trigon arc of the
original New Teen Titans was finished off by Curt Swan instead of George
Perez?

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Just read that last week. Swan's pencils blended really well with Tanghal's inks to produce artwork that was virtually seamless with Perez's.

John McMahon wrote:  John Mietus wrote: The point, John, is that in the old days if either Millar or Hitch had been late, the next issue would have been written or drawn by someone else for that issue And my point is that a large cunk of the readers are buying the book to read stories by a certain creative team - they don't want some fill-in issue, we're not crack whores you know - not going to go into withdrawl if the next issue doesn't hit within 31 days.

You're missing the point, John. It's not whether or not Millar/ Hitch can produce 12 issues a year. The point of being professional rests upon how many issues they commit to in that year and how many are delivered on time. No one is saying Hitch's art is bad. We are saying he has been unprofessional in providing it.

Quesada can't fire Hitch for being late. His own Daredevil book late by three, four, five months?

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It's at least a year late, maybe more.