Anonymous asked: I hope you've all learned a lesson from all these Secret Wars delays. Never make only one artist with a history of needing a lot of time be in charge of a book your entire publishing line depends on. AvX, Infinity, Age of Ultron and Axis shipped on time thanks to multiple artists. Fear Itself and Original Sin shipped on time thanks to faster artists.
That’s a double-edged sword, though, in that one of the reasons that everybody is so interested in SECRET WARS and that it’s been such a success has been the artwork that Esad has been doing. Even the reviewers who haven’t been entirely into the story have consistently praised the art. So it’s not as easy as simply going to some other artist to get the same result–we could have used another artist, but in that instance we possibly and even probably wouldn’t have generated the same sort of interest and passion from the readers. So that’s the trade-off. Even you being this irked about the situation comes from the fact that you want to have read the book already, and that’s more than a little bit due to Esad’s contributions to it.
