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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teflon Billy" data-source="post: 330774" data-attributes="member: 264">I know what you are talking about Drew. I was on the Astro city mailing list when it was in full swing (joined up during the Confessor/Bridwell Invasion arc), but Astro City was coming out *very* sporadically and people were getting kind of snitty about it when Kurt Busiek's Avengers, Iron Man and Thunderbolts titles were coming out like clockwork, while Astro City was going 6 months between issues (well, it went 6 months once).Kurt posted to the list citing his health issues as the reason for the delays, and everyone was pretty sympathetic. He claimed it was easier for him to get Marvel titles out because they didn't require as much thought as Astro City, but rest assured Astro City was not being cancelled.When called on that on another list he denied it vehemently, claimng tht he sunk his heart and soul into every title he did, and could be expected to put the same level of care and craft into Iron Man that he put into AC.It just went on and on and on like this. Busiek's reasons for his actions changed dramatically depending on who he was talking to. The man who was apparently "too sick to get 'his baby' (Astro City) out on time kept adding Marvel titles to his workload...but not spending any less effort on each of them than on AC...but unable to get AC out becaue of the amount fo effort it took.After awhile I got tired of waiting, and got tired of the bullsh|t.If Kurt Busike just wanted to coast, and rake in the easy money writitn Marvel titles, then that's fine. The man was sick and needed to kick back a bit. Understood.The reason I was on the mailing list was to get info about the title from the horse's mouth. If you are going to slack off on a title, say so. Save me the trip to the Comic Shop.His comments, collected, could be boiled down into this: "I'm too sick to do Astro City, but not too sick to do Thunderbolts, which I assure you takes the exact same amount of effort. I'm also adding Iron Man to my docket, which will take the same amount of effort that I put into everything. Expect the Marvel titles to be out on time. Astro City? We're doing our best, but I'm sick. Aslo I'm adding the Avengers."Heh, call me a bitch I guess<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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