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Creative Summit 4/25 Part 3
2007-04-25 13:33:53

We're blogging live from the creative summit! Check out our official index of Creative Summit posts. Each entry will be updated, so keep coming back.

Wednesday 4/25, 1:00-2:30

1:20

We're back from lunch and talkin' Avengers.

New Avengers #31. Don't DARE miss it. Seriously.

1:30
Bendis just laid out the next forever for the Avengers. Awesome!!!

Lots of scheduling questions have risen. That's the tricky bit.

1:40
Mysteries and questions!

Bendis has an agenda point and it's a doozy.

Make sure you go to Wizard World Philadelphia and hit up our panels. Big stuff.

1:50
Do you like events in their own series or within ongoing books? A question around the room.

Bendis: "I love my sexy guys."

Tom Brevoort's talking and brandishing a fork. Danger, you have returned.

Bendis just sold out C.B. Cebulski. In a good way, though. I think. It was funny and hopefully C.B.'s killer LONERS book gets some play out of it.

2:00
What's being discussed right now is that it's so cool and so huge, but it may be too big. Too big? Possibly. Discussions are still raging.

2:10
Picking characters. For something. It's a heated issue!

Here comes the breakdown. Configuring acts, placing things chronologically and hammering things home. The summit at its tightest.

2:20
Bendis: "I've been beating it out for a year." And no, that's not a dirty statement! It means Bendis has been working on a story for a while and, yeah, this puppy's gonna ROCK.

Also, Jim Nausedas likes to provoke.

Jeph Loeb and Joe Quesada are conspiring to torture Bendis by giving a project a fake name. Threats and jabs are being tossed--with smiles on everyone's faces.

Jump to the next blog entry for more.

I hope someone answered that question by saying that hosting all the big events in their own miniseries undermines the relevance of the ongoing series. Why would a reader bother reading a book that doesn't appear to chart any of the major events in its characters' lives? Look at how the two secondary Spider-Man titles have stagnantly performed while all the major events in Spidey's life are being covered in full by Civil War and Amazing Spider-Man - and for that matter imagine how much better ASM would be selling in the long-term if the unmasking had taken place there (as opposed to Civil War, where it didn't even get as much as a SINGLE PANEL of play after the reveal!!!). The World War Hulk thing seems completely bizarre to me, with the ongoing series carrying on beside it, but I expect there will be good cohesion with them having the same writer.

Posted by Fetsur on 2007-04-25 17:14:55

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