What would happen if Alan Moore worked for DC again?

**stk** · 11-20-2012, 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by Desaad

Double shipping is largely regarded to be a horrible thing, and I think for the industry it's destructive, but for me personally I love it, assuming I love the book. More work from a writer with a vision, and artwork from capable professionals.

Double-shipping wouldn't be such a problem if the quality could be maintained, but 99 times out of 100, it isn't. Art is the first to suffer. Either you have to have constant fill-ins, which I think hurts the cohesiveness of a story, or you have one artist working really fast and the quality of the work drops off sharply.

Then the writing. If double-shipping meant getting two regular issues in a month, I could see the appeal. But more often what happens is that the story starts to feel padded to fill space, and you end up getting the same amount of story content a month, but spread over two issues. Most times, it seems like writers can't write far enough ahead, quickly enough or well enough. Things start to feel rushed and sloppy. It's one thing for a writer to be working on two books. But to write twice as far ahead on one book seems to be more difficult. So, in the desperate rush to stay caught up, they spread small ideas over larger stretches of book, and the stories get a lot less enjoyable.

**Mr. Holmes** · 11-20-2012, 08:57 PM

At least from what I notice, all of Marvel's double shipped books seem to be 3.99, except for Spider-Man, which I have no interest in. I read All-New X-Men, and it exceeded my expectations, considering i wasn't expecting much from Bendis. But I can't spend 8 dollars a month for one book. It's the same reason I'm passing on Hickman's Avengers.

**Superboy Sr** · 11-20-2012, 11:51 PM

I think people would see the Captain Marvel Family with some great stories. When Alan Moore did Supreme I was wishing it was Captain Marvel instead just picture it.

**vampiric_cannibal** · 11-21-2012, 12:07 AM

Originally Posted by stk

Double-shipping wouldn't be such a problem if the quality could be maintained, but 99 times out of 100, it isn't. Art is the first to suffer. Either you have to have constant fill-ins, which I think hurts the cohesiveness of a story, or you have one artist working really fast and the quality of the work drops off sharply.

Then the writing. If double-shipping meant getting two regular issues in a month, I could see the appeal. But more often what happens is that the story starts to feel padded to fill space, and you end up getting the same amount of story content a month, but spread over two issues. Most times, it seems like writers can't write far enough ahead, quickly enough or well enough. Things start to feel rushed and sloppy. It's one thing for a writer to be working on two books. But to write twice as far ahead on one book seems to be more difficult. So, in the desperate rush to stay caught up, they spread small ideas over larger stretches of book, and the stories get a lot less enjoyable.

Wolverine and the X-Men kept the quality of the art up, and delivered roughly 20 issues in its first 12 months. And the ones that sucked sucked because AvX killed its momentum. Now the second year has begun, the issues sucked because they sucked. It did have the advantage of having two really good artists full-time, and managed to work it so they alternated groups of issues rather than one each. Bachalo's leaving for Uncanny vol. 3, and artists are moved around ridiculously often, so keeping consistent art teams on single shipping books is hard enough. Particularly for the bigger titles with the most demanded talent that are traded frequently.
The bolded applies to Kirkman's Invincible, and that is late often enough that it cannot always be described as single-shipping. Really long runs can have this happen if the writer isn't careful. Subplots were forgotten for something like 30-50 issues.

Holmes, All New is only doubleshipping for the first 3 months. Then it goes monthly, just as Uncanny comes out I think.

**zryson** · 11-21-2012, 12:26 AM

What would happen? A number of things really. Some people would run around asking "Is it true? What have you heard?" and trying to uncover every bit of information whether imagined or real. Others would lay down on the ground asking "Why?!" while others would just laugh and enjoy the spectacle. I do not see it as a bad thing. He did very good work. But that's just my opinion.