When I say Marvel is acting like a shambolic, amateur production company, this is why.
The editor in chief isn't asked story details or any 'spoiler' information, but asked, quite frankly, on the current progress of a four-month late title.
He doesn't know.
He doesn't know.
Can you imagine someone asking the Head of New Line, "Excuse me, when is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King coming out? You said Christmas 2003, but it's Christmas 2004 and we've not seen a trailer." and the head of New Line responding, "I'm sorry, I don't know. You should probably ask Peter Jackson about it."
The reason I point out that the EIC wasn't being asked any 'spoiler' information, is because he has no reason to be coy with his answers. If someone said, "Will Cap die in #13?", his response could/should be a coy, "Stay tuned". But this is not such a question, and we can only assume that the EIC is honestly saying he doesn't know the status of one of the best-selling titles his company produces that is already four-months late.
He could ask Laura Martin. Hell, even I know how many pages she has had sent to her so far! (No, I'm not going to tell you so don't ask.) He could ask Bryan Hitch! What the hell is this? "I don't know, maybe you should ask the artist?"
It's one thing to say, "due to artistic integrity we won't be operating a conveyer belt where we mass produce comics, we will spend the time on each comic we need to make that comic perfect" and another thing to say, "I don't know where we are on the production of our books, you should probably ask someone who knows yourself."
Nonsense.
