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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2023 14:01:26 GMT -5
Astro City barely published any issues for several years, but that was due to illness of writer Kurt Busiek, which - if I recall correctly - was misdiagnosed at least once and possibly twice. "Misdiagnosed" may not be the right word. I think it was more like he had something exceedingly rare, and it took them two or three tries to figure out what it really was. If my memory is right, he said it eventually turned out to be mercury poisoning, but went undiagnosed correctly for a long time.
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Post by badwolf on Oct 30, 2023 18:02:02 GMT -5
I can see losing interest after years, but a bimonthly schedule wouldn't put me off at all.
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Post by commond on Oct 30, 2023 18:18:28 GMT -5
There are a number of manga that are infamous for going on hiatus. Hunter X Hunter is so notorious for its hiatuses that fans call it Hiatus X Hiatus. Sometimes a manga goes on hiatus and never returns. The hiatuses are mainly due to health reasons, as creating manga in Japan is extraordinarily demanding.
If the work is finished and finally collected, then people tend not to worry themselves with the publication delays (see Watchmen), but in real time it hurts the books a lot in terms of sales and publicity. I'm a fan of a number of self-published titles that have struggled to get books out. That makes Dave Sim's Cerebus all the more impressive to me even if I never made it to the end.
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Post by majestic on Oct 30, 2023 19:07:58 GMT -5
It’s probably no coincidence that the death knell for some magazines is when they go bi-monthly. Just my personal opinion - I would rather see a title come out every other month like clockwork instead of sporadically trying to keep a monthly schedule and failing. Especially with something that has really detailed art.
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Post by driver1980 on Oct 31, 2023 7:23:25 GMT -5
Me neither. I’d rather have six issues of a magazine a year than not have any.
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