Alguien recuerda porqué Strackzynski no continuó el escuadrón Supremo?
Yo creo que Strackzynski y dejar una historia sin acabar ya son conceptos íntimamente ligados.
He encontrado esta entrevista a JMS del 2011, en inglés:
Geek: Fans often get critical, saying that
you don’t finish series you started, like Supreme Power, The Twelve, and recently Wonder Woman and Superman. I’d love to hear your reaction to this.
JMS: This perception has kind of taken on a life of its own, and it doesn’t seem to matter what the actual facts are. It’s become like those who don’t believe in climate change, you can point to contrary evidence all you want, they won’t budge. In addition to finishing Rising Stars and Midnight Nation, I did eight or nine years on Spider-Man, did such miniseries as Bullet Points, Strange, Silver Surfer Requiem…I’ve written hundreds of published comics. And the lion’s share of it came out on time.
Where were the problems? Let’s take them on straight-up.
Supreme Power: SP got finished. It was only after it got moved out of the Max line and became Squadron Supreme that the book began to falter, and I’ll take the rap for that one. Without the freedom of the Max line I wasn’t able to do the kind of things that had made the book work, and I started to flounder around, it didn’t feel like the book anymore. I told Marvel I was having a hard time. They said keep at it. I said no, seriously, this isn’t working, you should find somebody else. They said keep at it. When I finally said I can’t do this anymore, I’m starting to suck and fall below the standard of quality I think I owe the readers, they said well, we’ll keep it open if you want to come back… and it just sort of stopped rather than being assigned to a different writer.The Twelve: this was a mutual situation. I hit a busy period on movies, then got caught up and turned in pages but now [artist] Chris [Weston] was off doing movie stuff (Book of Eli and others), then he’d get free and I would be off the grid. I couldn’t get too far ahead of the art because I would always learn something from the visuals and want to incorporate it into the next issue. We’ve been going back and forth for ages on this. I turned in a batch of pages to him over a month ago, and haven’t seen any new art since. So this one is a fifty/fifty. The good news is that it is being finished.
Thor: I loved working on the book. Loved everything about it. We made that book a consistent top-ten book…which attracted the Event Demons, and it became evident that everything I’d been built up in the book was going to be up-ended. I couldn’t go through this again, having had other books derailed by “events.” Again: I won’t let the quality of a book I’m writing drop below the level I think is right for the readers. I owe them no less than my absolute best. So I told them I had to go. Dan Buckley was very gracious in handling the situation, but the downside is that they slowed down the publishing schedule to allow time for other writers and artists to come on board, and I got gigged for the delays.
Superman and Wonder Woman you know. [That he left to work on Superman: Earth One Graphic Novels.]
My feeling is that the only way for me to really do the level of work I need to do is to concentrate on the graphic novels, and on miniseries where – as with Bullet Points and Silver Surfer Requiem – the scripts are all written and most of the art is done before we announce it. That way the books are guaranteed to come out on time, and to be finished.
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https://ifanboy.com/articles/j-michael-straczynski-talks-about-not-finishing-projects/
