What. The. Hell?

Could Warren Ellis or Adi Granov please explain this if possible?

"SHIPPING CHANGES AS OF 01.14.05
According to Diamond, the following products had have adjustments to their shipping schedule. The first date listeds is the original in-sotre date, the second, the revised date.

Iron Man #3 01/26/05 - 04/13/05"

Didn't Granov have a six month head start on this series? Why would he need an additional three months in the middle of his run to have one issue ship?

Look, why not just have all six of Granov's issues done before solicitation? Why not? Was there a big hurry to get them out on the stands before hand? I mean, there was no type of crossover story with the relaunch, so...?

Newsarama posters "ain't having it", either:

"That's a damn shame. THREE MONTHS? How much lead time did this creative team have? The only way this would be acceptable is if the Fed Ex plane carrying the completed pages crashed in the Pacific (at least Tom Hanks would have had something to read...). Seriously, I'm a Marvel fan, and I can usually excuse a delay from any company as part of the "comic book making process" (see: Y The Last Man) but this is ridiculous!"

"And yeah, 3 months for Iron Man? That's just amazingly unprofessional. Is there any way that's a mistake?"

"It's a Warren Ellis book, so I'd go with "no" on that one."

"Most short turm dealys are caused by either printing errors or last minute changes to art. However, when it's months or userly late, it's because of the creators."

"Now that's just ridiculous. Presumably this delay is due to the slowness of the art. I like the art, but this delay is too much. Obviously issue #4, due on March 30, will be delayed too. This is a really bad sign for the series. It looks like its going to take a long time to get through what's shaping up to be a very slow-developing story in the first place. That's too bad, because Iron Man is one of my favorite characters, and once again Marvel appears to have put the wrong creative team on the book."

"I've really had enough of this crap. I don't care how long a book takes to come out as long as it comes out ON TIME, whether it be on a monthly schedule, bi-monthly, quarterly...whatever. Marvel has been dropping this ball long enough to get their shit together. The Iron Man screw up just reeks of Marvel rushing the book out(along with Cap which is ALSO LATE) to capitalize on this disasembled nonsense. For every smart editorial move(like letting Hitch get a head start) there are a dozen fuck ups. Joe Quesada deserves a slap in the head for his lateness as well. My two year old cousin who barely speaks knew Daredevil : Father would be a scheduling travesty. Vote with your wallets. Avoid late books like the plague."

"Marvel actually started to catch up on all its shoddy delays in 2002 by scheduling fill-ins left and right, and though it made many of its books artistically inconsistent (New X-Men ranged from detailed Frank Quitely to even more detailed Ethan Van Sciver to shittastic Igor Kordey), it actually got the books out on a fairly consistent basis. I don't know if it's the shortage of exclusive artists or the shortage of artists due to all the unnecessary spin-off titles they're crapping out or just idiotic editors, but somehow their reliance on fill-in artists seems to be vanishing, replaced with staggered delays for over half their books at any given point. For every Mark Bagley, there's three Trevor Hairsines."

For some good, old fashioned family Iron Man parody, check this out. Thanks, Alex.