Cosmic Justice
Kevin Smith has made an interesting disclosure at his blog. During the period that Kevin Smith was working on his Spider-man/Black Cat series, he was never paid for any of the scripts by Marvel. Some missing paperwork prevented Smith from receiving his checks while working on the long-delayed series.
In Smith's own words:So there it is. While I can never be excused for the insane lateness and unprofessionalism with which I handled "Spider-Man/Black Cat", comics fans can take some small comfort in knowing that I never got paid for any of the books 'til after the entire series was done anyway. That means no royalites (yet) on those first three issues either. Nada. Not a penny for my "Black Cat" work, heretofore. Until this moment in time, I essentially did "Spider-Man/Black Cat" for free.
Justice, in some weird manner, has been served, I guess.
2 Comments:
Ha, this is funny, and I’d actually feel sympathy for him if
1) I didn’t have to have waited three years for it to have finished (so long, in fact, that I had actually forgotten that it hadn’t finished) and
2) the story actually made any sense.
However (after being forced to go back, find, and read the first issues), and then going forward and reading what is out now, The story definitely suffers from the three year gap — as if he was writing one story then, and is now writing an entirely different story.
Or am I the only one who feels this way?
Justice, indeed.
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