Thursday, March 11, 2004

Slow and steady wins the race: I can never remember when Rich Johnston's "Waiting For Tommy" appears. I think it's Wednesdays. In any case, I just read the Q&A with John Cassaday, in which he talks about the return of Spandex in Astonishing X-Men, his future in comics, and the (eventual) end of Planetary:

"I've got two scripts in front of me and Warren is in the middle of the next, which is #22. I plan to plug away at them as they come during my X-Men stint. Beyond that, your guess is as good as mine. Warren has made noise about extending the series past the original 25 issues in order to take his time ending it. If it needs more pages and we stretch it to maybe 27 or 28, why not? It has taken forever and at times has definitely been a monkey on my back, but I absolutely love Planetary. I know I'll miss it when it ends. However, it will be nice to close the back cover of that last one and move on ..."