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Exactly. It's one thing to reject a project at the synopsis stage - fair enough, it happens - but it does seem absurd to allow a third of it out like say a third of a movie, ( and it's roughly as irritating, ) and then " assess the situation " based on sales, especially when you've gone to the trouble of scoring an, er, big industry name like George with an exclusive contract, on the basis, as I understand it, that a) he can do what he wants, b) you've signed him on the strength of the ideas he's already submitted, and c) he can't do much else until the contract's run out in any case. If nothing else, artists on Vertigo always seemed to have been allowed to bring their work to a natural, if rushed, conclusion of some sort, however badly it sold, so for Vertigo, of all people, who wouldn't even exist without George, Alan, Neil and Peter to pull this shit seems thimply unconscionable, my dears.
So what I'm suggesting is a moratorium on all Vertigo products, apart from The Human Target ( and that's including the Sandman dollies and statues, though god knows it'll hurt me,) until they start behaving themselves.
Realistically, they just want George back on JLA, don't they ?
It's disturbingly easy to imagine the discussion:
MONEY GUY 1: " Hey, I'm a money guy - I'm just here to make the figures add up ( scratches beard, scratches arse, eats a couple of doughnuts, calls out for more, ) And this guy's... ok, he's got some ideas, but... Ah, fuck it, get him a contract, he'll see sense soon enough. We'll have that asshole writing Superman before Thanksgiving, godamnit... "
MONEY GUY 2: " Dude, you ROCK ! "
MONEY GUY 1: " Can I get some fuckin' MAYO on this sandwich ? "
Etc.
And let's face it, not reading anything on Vertigo these days ( apart from The Human Target, ) isn't exactly going to be a major sacrifice, is it ?
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