Missy Posted October 17, 2006 Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 From Newsarama: ELLIS ON NEXTWAVE CANCELLATION; SERIES OF MINIS TO CONTINUE Writer Warren Ellis issued a statement Tuesday to his "Bad Signal" email list commenting on the cancellation of his Marvel series Nextwave with January's issue #12. The statement follows in its entirety... Okay. I just this second got the go-ahead from Nick Lowe to talk about this. So here we go: Sales on the singles are okay, if not great. Sales on the first collection have apparently been terrific. We were on such a roll with NEXTWAVE that I was actually into the idea of doing a second year, which is highly unusual for me and work-for-hire properties. So Marvel sat down and looked at the numbers, as they wanted to do a second year too. What they found was that, at our current sales levels, they could afford for me to write it, but not for Stuart to draw it. Stuart, as a Marvel-exclusive artist, commands a fee commensurate with his astonishing talent. I'm WFH-exclusive too, but they just send me whisky and loose women and I'm fine. So, basically, I could continue to write NEXTWAVE, but we'd need to find another artist. This, to me, was just wrong. I mean, Stuart would obviously be given a far better job that had actual readers attached to it, but it still seemed a bit like the numbers were conspiring to fire him for doing his job too well. Everyone at Marvel pitched in to try and make it work, but the numbers were just against us. So NEXTWAVE #12 will be the final issue of the ongoing series. (To clear up a common misconception: NEXTWAVE was always pitched as an ongoing series. However, my original intent was to do 12 and then pass it on to someone else. This got garbled, somewhere down the chain of communication, and so the first issue or two got solicited as "part xxx of 12".) However. The numbers game changes when you posit things in terms of limited series. NEXTWAVE #12 will be the last issue of the ongoing series: but there will be more NEXTWAVE to come, presented as a sequence of limited series. This was all worked out some months ago, so I had plenty of time to work the final NEXTWAVE sequence into a conclusion of sorts. #11 even features a twelve-page spread that you'll have to buy six copies of the comic to assemble into its full splendour. Everyone wishes I'd thought of that eight or nine months ago. That was the news. Return to your duties. -- W Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragernok2002 Posted October 17, 2006 Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 This sucks, I enjoyed Nextwave as my silly but light hearted fun book. Plus Immonen's art is sweet. Someone made a good point about it going out on top not diving into the Toilet like some comics. At least I still got Antman to look forward to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted October 17, 2006 Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 Yeah, I got this in Bad Signal email this morning. Immonen is the only artist I want to see on this book so I'm happy with the cancellation rather than sub-par continuation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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