DC is culling their Rebirth titles with May 2018 solicitations released today. Many cancellations, etc....

Also, Jim Lee's The Immortal Men was delayed months, and it already has a fill in scheduled for #2./... the second issue.... of a book that has been delayed for months....and the first issue isn't out yet... unreal...

If the first issue isn't out until April, and the second issue isn't out until May, and its only February.... He should be able to pencil them both even if he hadn't started until TODAY.... let alone the 6+ month delay... 

This industry is truly, truly on life support. 

Black Panther sold how many millions of tickets worldwide? Yet the comic struggles to get 23,000 issues sold (and we know that sales does not = readers).

Guardians of the Galaxy = cancelled because of poor sales

Marvel's Netflix TV shows = comics cancelled because of low sales. 

Its really starting to feel like its over. Maybe Im just extra grumpy today. 

I know that its not unexpected, but its crazy to think that titles announced in April 2017 for released on January 2018... have been delayed until April 2018... and even THEN there is a fill in artist with issue #2....

  

EDIT: Whoever was to blame for the ALL-STAR BATMAN delays, and I have no specific knowledge, there was a reason it was plagued by delays (where was the editor?). So whoever was to blame, I was not pleased.

Back when the Image boys were 'making waves', I felt that it would set a standard for the future where deadlines, continuity, characterizations, etc. would take a back seat to superstar artists (and later, writers.) and the industry would never be the same. Lots of money made, but the industry would suffer soon enough.

At this point, groundbreaking would be going back to the OLD system of producing comic books.

-C!