LES PROJETS AVORTÉS

Marko · Août 2, 2021, 5:40

Parce qu’ils avaient du mal à tenir les deadlines il me semble (un autre facteur qui a pu jouer: le long feuilleton autour de l’identité du Hobgoblin, avec les épisodes de Peter David concernant le sort de Ned Leeds, qui a percé en tant que scénariste grâce à l’aide de Owsley/Priest).

Here 's Jim Owsley on how the era ultimately ended: « I had been told (by Shooter) at least a dozen times to fire Tom. Tom was late. Tom was busy. Tom was distracted. And now, Tom was not doing his best on Spider-Man. Inker Joe Rubinstein quit, annoyed that DeFalco and Frenz were habitually erratic. I scheduled fill in after fill in, affecting sales. »

DeFalco’s take: (from Back Issue 35 ) « Owsley gave us a schedule that basically said I’d have to do a plot every three weeks to get the book on time. So Ron and I would follow that schedule and when I would turn in the third plot, Owsley would give us a new schedule that showed I was a month late. And he kept doing this to us. (…) Editors get to create their own schedules. I think what Shooter said to Owsley was ’ If the guy can’t make deadlines, get rid of him .’ So consequently, Owsley was constantly revising and remaking the deadlines. »

Back to Owsley: « I told Jim I was taking Tom off of ASM , and creating this other animal ( Sensational Spider-Man , a quarterly special - Tom and Ron could do as much Spider-Man as they wanted and were capable of doing, and we’d be off the hook for the monthly deadline) for him and Ron. Jim said, fine. »

"Tom took the news very hard. It ended our friendship, and, I am told, Tom saw Jim’s hand in this and threatened to quit. A stunned Shooter appeared at my door the next day, and I knew I was about to be fired. He asked me, and I quote ’ Why’d you do that ?’ I just stared at him as he stammered and stared at the floor (…) and I felt like I was the victim of some macabre Corleone plot. What the blessed hell was this man talking about?! I cleared this all with him before I did it. (…) I said, ’ Because you told me to .’ To which Jim replied, and I’ll never forget this, ’ Yeah, but I never thought you’d actually do it .’

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