CBR: THE LATE LIST 2: More Comics No Shows

[CBR News]

From worst to first, we dig through the calendar and discover delayed titles from all corners of comics, shining the spotlight on the regular suspects as well as some you might not even remember.


Full article here.

[Matthew E]

How about the Captain Blood series from SLG that started a couple of years ago? The first two issues were great, but #3 is long, long overdue.

[Fluffy6079]

When my roommate first got into comics, this was his favorite stuff out there. He collected the Newuniversal stuff Ellis did before Shockfront and loved it. The first two issues of Shockfront were amazing.... Stinks that it'll never get resolved.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

I feel so much fucking sadness over Baron Von Shock being dead. I really wish we could see how the story ends in #5.

[StSean]

too bad gutsville has been canceled; it was an excellent book with an amazing concept. i guess the price of fame is that personal endeavors fall to the wayside.

[Paul Nolan]

too bad gutsville has been canceled; it was an excellent book with an amazing concept. i guess the price of fame is that personal endeavors fall to the wayside.

When Image are saying the book is 'cancelled' i'm sure they mean cancelled in previews.

I'll put money on Gutsville (and Gemini) being resolicited when its done.

[Brother Justin Crowe]

Doktor Sleepless!

[Charles RB]

McFarlane talked with us at length in a recent CBR TV video promising 15 Issues of "Spawn" in 2011

So, he's going to do an issue a week starting from next week? Or did they mean 2012?

[Jon Goff]

Fun read. Lotta books lots to the wicked ether of the eternal deadline.

Quick update, however...

SPAWN 210 is actually hitting shelves next Wednesday, so you can update its entry to read...

STATUS: On sale NEXT WEDNESDAY, August 10, 2011

Technically, 210 was re-solicited for an August release in May of this year, so as of that scheduled release it's on time. Sure, when calculating from its originally intended release time frame, the article is dead-on. And, while "late is late" in the grand scheme of things, at least the effort was made to get the book back on track for readers and retailers with a consistent monthly release schedule beginning with the re-solicitation of SPAWN 203 last October.

In fact, since January, eleven issues of SPAWN have been released (counting 210), so the book has been hitting its scheduled releases for a while. On top of which, we're still a number of issues ahead in terms of production vs. what's on-shelf, so SPAWN will be out monthly for the foreseeable future with big plans gearing up for next year's 20th Anniversary.

If you want to check out a preview of SPAWN 210, below is a link to an album on Todd's Facebook Fan Page, which contains the updated cover (by Michael Golden) and three pages of lettered/colored interior art, along with black-and-white, art-only versions of those same pages...

SPAWN 210 PREVIEW

To be clear, this wasn't meant as a knock against the "Late List" article, I honestly enjoyed it quite a bit. Just wanted to pop in with the updated info related to the SPAWN 210 entry to ensure the details provided where accurate.

-Jon

[CSPDX]

Orc Stain? Where for art thou, One-Eye?

[Jon Goff]

So, he's going to do an issue a week starting from next week? Or did they mean 2012?

Not quite -- though that would be something.

The point is that there will be 15 issues of SPAWN released in 2011. Issue 210 hits next Wednesday (8/10), which will be the eleventh issue since January, with four more issues coming monthly from September through December.

For the first few months of the year SPAWN was bi-weekly as the book caught up to the newly re-solicited issues and to maintain a certain pacing within the story, which was more deliberate than what was presented in the book previously.

Does that clear up any confusion?

-Jon

[Charles RB]

Ahh. My mistake, I thought the article meant no Spawns had come out this year.

[Nicholas]

Chandler: Red Tide is the one I very much looking forward to in 3 weeks.
Though, I have the original which was printed back in the 70's, in half the comic book standard size but inside content remained classically timeless.

[blackpariah]

Someone already mentioned Blue Monday in the other Late List thread, but what about Pirates of Coney Island? The delays were supposedly caused by the artist's health issues. Becky Cloonan could fill in for Vasilis Lolos and I'd have no problem with that. I'm glad to see updates on a lot of my long awaited books here (War Heroes, Anna Mercury, and Newuniversal to name a few) even if a bunch of them have been canceled. Runaways in 2012!

[Steve Broome]

Is there precedent for a series being relaunched after 5 issues?