Tuesday, May 22, 2007

My Extremely Severe Alterations to the Current Direction of Wolverine

Mike, I just wanted to make sure I have everything straight. You've already solicited 56, 57's another stand alone Noirverine story, 58's a fill-in emergency issue from Lapham and 59 starts the Brubaker epic?

If the Lapham issue is for emergencies, is there an emergency I didn't hear about? Would it be okay for me to see if 58 can start the multi-parter? Cause if Lapham's is just a stand-alone fill-in, that's the sort of thing that can stay on the shelf indefinitely. Like in theory even until after Brubaker's first arc is done.

Not that there will be any reason to continue publishing this title after Brubaker's first arc is done. Cause in the last issue Wolverine gets killed by a humpback whale. But then we get the following five part limited series by Jeph Loeb and a series of fill-in artists, based on an idea by JMS:

SQUISHED SON:
THE DEATH OF WOLVERINE

PART ONE: "YOU'RE KIDDING, RIGHT?" STARRING SPIDER-MAN
PART TWO: "THAT'S DISGUSTING!" STARRING THE ASTONISHING X-MEN
PART THREE: "OH, THAT POOR WHALE!" STARRING PETA
PART FOUR: "I THOUGHT HE SMELLED BAD BEFORE!" STARRING THE NEW AVENGERS
PART FIVE: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! AWESOME!" STARRING DEADPOOL

5 comments:

Philip Schaeffer said...

Great. Now Brubaker's behind on Wolverine. So disregard that question about using Lapham's issue; I'll definitely need it.

Here are the options I see:

1) Do more fill-in issues. This will irritate everybody.
2) Seek a tonally similar replacement for Ed. This will irritate everybody.
3) See how Ed responds to the notion of a co-writer.

Thoughts?

Patrick Cook said...

I wonder if Ed is behind on his Wolverine work because he's been tied up speaking with the folks over at Big Money? Hmmmmmm

Michael Heide said...

One other option would be to delay the Wolverine issues, Civil War style.

But I think a co-writer might be the best choice.

Sean Kleefeld said...

The fill-in is not really an option. Brubaker's behind NOW and the solicitations have already gone out for what he's working on.

I'd ask him about a co-writer and if that would help his schedule. Be careful here, though; you don't want to give the indication that you're looking to replace him. What you might try is asking who he'd like to help him (if that's an option as far as he's concerned) and if he doesn't have anyone or they're unavailable, THEN go to your list. I might suggest Joe Edkin as he's very fast and generally comfortable doing pinch hitting.

BUT, that's assuming Bru is open to the idea of a co-writer. If not, I'd really hate to lose him and I'd be willing to run the book late if it comes to that. Remember that Wolverine isn't really tied too directly to anything else at the moment and shouldn't have an impact on the overall schedule.

Michael Heide said...

Which was the plan all along...

Muhahahaha...