>Seven additional artists are joining with Civil War II series artist David Marquez to complete the delayed final issue. Announced as part of Marvel's weekly retailers-only newsletter, Civil War II #8 will now have 32 pages by Marquez with eight additional pages - described as a "special top secret interior sequence" - by Esad Ribic, Leinil Yu, Adam Kubert, Alan Davis, Mark Bagley, Marco Rudy, and Daniel Acuna.
>This isn't the the first time Marvel has enlisted guest artists to finish Civil War II issues; Sean Izaakse did several unnannounced pages for September's Civil War II #5, and Andrea Sorrentino did the same for November's Civil War II #7.
>The release date for Civil War II #8 remains set at December 28, an eight-week delay from the originally solicited November 2 release date.
I'm sure this sequence with the additional artist will fit in just as well as Sorrentino's OML sequence in 7. That's sarcasm.
Fuck sake. Why hasn't Marvel instituted a simple progress update system for their artists by now?
>Hey, this is the people paying you to do things for us. It's Monday and four weeks from the deadline, send up your progress.
>Hey, Marvel, three weeks. Update us.
>Hey, M. Two weeks. Fax us something pretty.
Instead it's a cluster fuck of
>Oh, yeah. That deadline was last month. I wonder what that dude's been up to?
As usual Marvel editorial is fucking useless.
Austin Morales
I fucking hate when sites like Newsarama post these fucking snippets and crops of pics and variants. For Christ's sake I've already endured seven issues of this shit, at least give me the satisfaction of seeing some pretty stuff barely related to it.
Brody Williams
I think it's because of how artist can be. Sometimes shit just takes longer than anticipated. I forget who and what it was, but I know there was a comic not too long ago that had an artist who was notorious for taking forever with his art and put him on a monthly. Shit's just dumb sometimes.
Grayson Torres
Jesus.
Bob Harras is a piece of shit as EiC, but least he gets books out on time.
Jeremiah Johnson
half of death of x was done by someone else than they announced half of IvX will be too seeing the solicits it's their new tactic
Charles Collins
Embarrassing.
Samuel Jones
This is still going on? Just cancel it already, the relaunch started over a month ago
Christian Gonzalez
Bendis has done this before with his "big" issues. Bringing in a variety of artists to help.
It was also in Secret Wars: Siege.
Robert Kelly
Reminder that IvX will start before Civil War II ends, and the rest of the MU has already passed CWII by. I feel kind of bad for this story actually. It's like that one member of the protest who's stayed through the night after everyone else left. He's all alone.
Sebastian Bailey
IT'S NOT DONE YET!?!?! Geeeze I hope none of you are buying this shit.
Gabriel Carter
Civil War II is the single worst Marvel event I've ever seen. Granted, I never read Heroes Reborn or the Crossing, but this beats out Original Sin and Fear Itself.
Zachary Harris
this is rock bottom, but I bet the conclusion will find a way to keep digging
Charles Myers
Fear Itself was probably the most reliant on tie-ins, but overall, I think it's actually "ok". I reread it recently and the only thing that's /bad/ was how Bucky's "death" was handled, before the 7.1 issue. It felt tacked on, which was a bummer.
Basically, FI had shit publishing, and I didn't like it years ago, but it was an ok comic story.
I would've liked to have seen a smaller more personal crossover like it was originally supposed to be. Fuck Brevoort, and REALLY FUCK Buckley.
Matthew Diaz
...
Thomas Campbell
Warren Ellis/Jorge Zaffino from Karnak?
Or were you thinking of Secret Wars?
Nathan Rogers
Well they're getting it out at least?
Jonathan Powell
Marvel events have been embarrassing since the original Secret Wars was a glorified toy commercial.
Carter Cooper
It's still going to have a shittone of copy/pasted panels, innit?
Dominic Taylor
Maybe Secret War.
Alexander Robinson
>Buying anything related to this after the titty-missile in #0 L M A O M A O
Henry Torres
I still don't understand why Tom Brevoort is in charge of big events. He is a good editor but he has never, ever been good at events, going back to Maximum Security with Busiek. And his events usually have the same flaws (ending fatigue, bad or pointless tie-ins) regardless of writer.
Marvel did do some good events like the Annihilation stuff. Why not give events to an editor who is good at coordinating them across the line, and leave Brevoort to do the things he's actually good at (shepherding writers through ongoing series)?
Nolan Sanchez
At least that means it won't come out next March?
Ethan Edwards
At least fear itself gave us journey into mistery.
Jaxon Jackson
This shit is still happening?
John Ortiz
But that is how it works. Shit happens, delays happen.
>>Oh, yeah. That deadline was last month. I wonder what that dude's been up to?
You're kinda baka, if you honestly believe thats how things work.
That was on purpose, the additional artists only did the 2-page spreads
Juan Barnes
Embarassing.
Oliver Wood
Wait is #7 even out yet? I don't remember.
Landon Bennett
#7 was the one where Miles and Cap actually both went to the Capitol without anything happening and Carol showed up asking Miles to agree to be kept in protective custody for a while. Miles was going to agree when Tony in War Machine armor showed up out of nowhere and started shooting and punching Carol like an idiot
