He must have a date he will start his new job and therefore not be available anymore to write or edit scripts and dialogues, and if he wants the story completed he needs to it before that time; dialogues are added after the story starts to be drawn and there are always changes to account for; Marvel may like to crowd shelves, but in this case they are running more than one storyline that would have normally occurred on the ongoing at the same time, and it feels more like a way to solve several unfinished storylines faster than it was planned.
https://twitter.com/DanSlott/status/1406619723530485766
If someone is afraid that Slott will return, you can relax now.
This all works backwards from the premise that Nick Spencer is the boss. He is not. His future plans for employment do not dictate Marvel's publishing schedule. Marvel is not rushing out Spider-Man comics to meet Nick Spencer's timetable. If anything, Nick Spencer is rushing out scripts to meet Marvel's timetable. (The fact that Ed Brisson has jumped on as co-scripter for a few issues suggests that Spencer is falling behind.) There are so many Spider-Man comics coming out over the rest of the summer because Marvel wants to publish that many Spider-Man comics this summer. If Nick Spencer didn't want to write them, they would either find someone who would, or would hire another creative team and publish them as .1 issues. Beyond all that, these comics have been solicited for months in advance. Editors needed to go through the approval process of scripts, hire artists and colorists to produce the art, all while working within a budget and a schedule set from higher up the publishing chain. You guys have the power structure completely backwards. In fact, it's much more likely that Marvel's decision to accelerate the publishing schedule led to Spencer taking the gig elsewhere than it is that Nick Spencer taking a gig elsewhere led to Marvel accelerating the publishing schedule.
(Also, while not knowing the specifics of how Spencer is writing Spider-Man, the majority of comics now are written full script. The old "Marvel method" of doing the dialogue after the artwork is completed is hardly ever used now. The 616 episode focusing on the production of the Iron Man 2020 series made great pains to establish that Dan Slott is one of the few, if not only, writers at Marvel who still write comics that way. Most writers will do a dialogue pass after the art is completed and make tiny edits, but the majority of their work is done before the artist starts drawing.)
Nick Spencer does in fact write full script.
The plot-first method (which is what is should be called since "marvel method" can easily be confused with Stan Lee's shenanigans with Ditko and Kirby) in fact leads to more delays than full-script. It puts more work on the artist to come up with the panels and images to tell the story and that delays the process more than if the writer gave it to them to work with.The old "Marvel method" of doing the dialogue after the artwork is completed is hardly ever used now. The 616 episode focusing on the production of the Iron Man 2020 series made great pains to establish that Dan Slott is one of the few, if not only, writers at Marvel who still write comics that way. Most writers will do a dialogue pass after the art is completed and make tiny edits, but the majority of their work is done before the artist starts drawing.)
At the end of the day, until Spencer sits down for an interview a year or two down the line and goes off-the-cuff, we won't really know the stuff leading to the end of his run. Maybe Spencer wanted a short run but he was asked to expand and pad stuff out longer than he expected due to high sales.
Who knows?
Gotta be honest here - this is not remotely a concern for Disney . The most it’s a concern for Marvel is getting some sales on the comic, which are so fractional compared to the money the MCU makes that neither company is going to carry this as a primary concern of importance. =)
"Mutationem Aeternum"
Krakoan and Proud
"Mutationem Aeternum"
Krakoan and Proud
I totally agree. I love Slott’s run. I think Superior Spider-Man was a fun story. Everyone knew Peter would eventually come back, but the journey was entertaining. I’m just sad that there was no way to keep both Otto AND Peter as Spider-Men (and the series that revived him, I felt, was horrible compared to Slott’s).