5,100
edits
Troubled Production: Difference between revisions
→Comic Books
Line 37:
=== Comic Books ===
* David Herbert apparently attracts this kind of production with all his works except [http://www.livingwithinsanity.com/index/ Living With Insanity]. [http://www.tnemrot.com/ Tnemrot] was supposed to be a print comic and was written in late 2008, going through seven artists before Tatiana Lepikhina joined and is now a webcomic. [http://www.indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=3429 Gemini Storm] was also written at the same time, came out in March 2010 and the second issue is still expected to take another month or two before being released. He has also mentioned other projects that haven't gone anywhere due to artists dropping out or simply disappearing.
* [[The Clone Saga]]. To make a very long story short: a mix of artists wanting to do a bit of [[Continuity Porn]] and a bunch of very profit-oriented directives transformed what was originally to be a short special event leading for a milestone number of ''[[Spider-man]]'' into a slog that seeped for ''two years'' and tens of titles, which was unable to be finished despite the wishes of almost everyone involved because it sold well, but the reason it sold well was because the fans wanted to see how the writers could finally tie the immense tangled web of subplots they wrote themselves into for editorial mandate to keep going as long as it sells.
* [[JLA-Avengers|The popular crossover]] between the [[Justice League of America]] and [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]] languished for 20 years because [[DC Comics]] and [[Marvel Comics]] couldn't decide on ''who would win in a fight''.
* Anything that isn't part of the mainstream [[Marvel Comics]] tends to suffer from this. One of the more documented ones was [[The New Universe]]. Touted as "The World Outside Your Window", the franchise fell apart from the beginning - writers tossed in 616-type elements (aliens, powered armors, etc.), financial backers pulled out before it even started, and people were too engrossed by that slogan. Despite canceling half of the franchise and starting a massive storyline that started with the destruction of Pittsburgh, it never got off its feet and died nearly three years later.
Line 47:
** For ''Sonic Adventure 2'''s story, the big problem was that Sega was insistent on Archie creating a tie-in into the game. Archie's solution? Just do enough to whet people's appetite and go get the game. Still was enough to ruin a side-by-side storyline that had a cosmicly-powered Knuckles altering Mobius drastically.
*** Up until ''Sonic Genesis'', most other adaptation storylines would end up just being teasers with Archie Comics practically saying "Game X happened after this story.".
=== Live Action TV ===
| |||