And it STILL mystifies me that more retailers are not grabbing the torches and pitchforks over this. I mean, I have lost count of the number of times I have seen retailers complain that they have "lost money" when a book doesn't sell as well as they thought it would. Yet where are the complaints about the money lost when they are promised 12 issues and 9 are delivered?

Something that gets me is when an artist can't seem to produce 12 issues a year, but we do get an issue from them eventually, we the fans, should be over the moon we are getting anything at all.

Surely it's quite simple: You can't do the job you were hired to do, there's the door.

That's the way it goes in my work and a lot of other places.

QUOTE: Too many comic artists these days seem to have forgotten that an important part of that "personal best" is hitting the deadlines. The deadlines are part of the whole package, part of what the artist has signed on to produce

Exactly.  Certain artists are focused on onlyy one aspect of the job.  The professionals of the industry were/are adept at all aspects.

Too many comic artists these days seem to have forgotten that an important part of that "personal best" is hitting the deadlines.

Great point. Some pencillers seem to forget (or choose to ignore) the fact that they're part of a team, a chain of folk working together to get the issue done on time.

I wonder if this 'superstar' attitude that seems to be plaguing the industry a relatively new phenomenon, or has it always been a factor?

These guys do the job they're paid to do, and they expect a parade!"

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I often feel this way about pro football players when they make a touchdown. Isn't that what they're supposed to do? I certainly never spike my TPS reports when I get them from the printer.

I miss the old days when I was dumb enough I didn't know when a book was coming out so until late December I didn't know if I had bought twelve issues that year.

I will admit I am enabling the rose-growing, and I keep buying the books. Four color heroin I guess.

QUOTE: I certainly never spike my TPS reports when I get them from the printer.

I spiked my TPS reports once.

Then I was introduced to Terry Tate.

No more spiking.

QUOTE: I often feel this way about pro football players when they make a touchdown. Isn't that what they're supposed to do? I certainly never spike my TPS reports when I get them from the printer.

Amusing, if faulty analogy.

George Perez also did 24 issues of Wonder Woman and 12 issues of Crisis On Infinite Earths

Thought I don't have all those Wonder Woman issues, I did buy those Crisis issues!  Duh!  I should have thought of that.

On another note, I remember Paul Ryan saying he used to work a 40 hour a week job doing graphic arts, and hated it.  Then he got a job drawing comic books, working 60 hours a week.  But he loved it!