Comments on: Immortal Iron Fist #13

By: Kip

Kip — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:33:48 +0000

Thanks for the review! It has certainly got me–an admitted DC fan–interested in reading IIF or for that matter, anything else with Fraction’s name on it ( anyone else notice his Eisner nomination? ).

I have a friend that colors under exclusive contract for Marvel and asked him about how assignments are handled, does he pick what he wants to work on or what. Well, Joe Q ain’t the MAIN culprit here: the writers and artists can be very fickle and prone to creative burnout (need I say fill-in issue?) and often ask for new jobs in order to spark their juices. THESE ARE SENSITIVE AND MISUNDERSTOOD CREATIVE ARTISTS! hehe

But seriously, editors and other administrators frequently ask or recommend certain talent for particular jobs because in their opinion it would sell well.

By: Josh P.

Josh P. — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:49:28 +0000

Entertaining like a car wreck.

By: Matthew Peterson

Matthew Peterson — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:44:14 +0000

Cory…

Please stop with the character assassination. You don’t know any more than the rest of us about the inner workings of Joe Quesada’s brain.

Wow. That last post is more entertaining than the review.

Well, that wounds me more than you can ever know. :)

By: Josh P.

Josh P. — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:35:02 +0000

It’s funny, but I think the only reason that Quesada would replace Fraction and Brubaker on Iron Fist is because they wanted to leave for whatever reason. It would then make sense that Aja would leave at the same time.

If it has been reported elsewhere that Quesada replaced them to piss people off, please correct me.

As for newUniversal, isn’t that just another case of Warren Ellis over extending himself and letting his Big Two workload slide?

Seriously, I don’t always like Quesada’s editorially driven decisions, but the only times he’s replaced creative teams against their will is….I really can’t remember.

He seems to get a lot of flak for not replacing creative teams when they’re running months behind though.

By: doubledumbassonyou

doubledumbassonyou — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:52:49 +0000

I’m one of the regulars who has a fangasm each time Immortal Iron Fist is mentioned here on Major Spoilers, or anywhere for that matter. The final panel in which Danny Rand backed by his fellow Immortal Weapons & an army of ninjas is indeed pure awesome.

By: Baal

Baal — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:23:20 +0000

Wow. That last post is more entertaining than the review.

By: Cory

Cory — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:28:30 +0000

I really love this series. I was apoplectic when it was announced that Matt Fraction and Ed Brubaker would be leaving. Here was yet another title that Quesada seeks to ruin. If Quesada is so scatter-brained that he compulsively has to shift the creative teams off new and promising titles then how the hell can he expect people to become interested in any new series he’s trying to promote? Iron Fist was probably the ONLY new title by Marvel Comics that I have been consistently buying in 18 years!!!

I strongly dislike the X-titles, I detest anything by Bendis, and the recent team on Iron Man is trying its best to copy Brubaker’s Captain America yet failing miserably. Yet when promising new series are introduced they’re cut-down faster than a sci-fi series on FOX. Newuniversal was supposed to be an ongoing series but Quesada made sure to fuck that one up. Immortal Iron Fist is universally recognized as Marvel’s best new series in decades, but then Quesada decides to remove the creative team that put it there.

[Yes, I know Newuniversal returns for a 6 issue stint. It's still not the same. Newuniversal was promoted as an ongoing series. This was yet another of Joe Quesada's frequent LIES. So when eveyone is reading the hype coming out of COMICON this Summer, they'll know to take everything Quesada says with a planet of salt.]

I believe it’s time for Marvel Comics to FIRE Joe Quesada and Dan Buckley and whomever else is running Marvel Comics into the ground.

By: Sanlear

Sanlear — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:38:00 +0000

“I only hope that the new creative team, recently announced, can keep up the quality.”

I’m still in denial that the current team is leaving. I can only hope the same thing.