What difference does that make? Here at only issue 7 he is doing a fill-in issue for Coipel! While there may be an extenuating reason for a “break” this soon it seems that it’s only because 12 issues per year is too much to deliver. If I’m not mistaken, the 6 we’ve had have been mostly late due to art considerations. The only person I’ve seen that can actually do 12 (+) issues per year is Bagley.

Unfortunately, the 12 issues a year schedule seems to be more or less a thing of the past. To play Devil’s Advocate, the art we’re seeing now is far more detailed and elaborate than most of the art in the past three decades of comics (except for masters like Kirby… that guy had super-speed drawing powers). Too often, that detail gets in the way of the story rather than enhancing it, but it does seem to be the style that a number of readers prefer. Thus you get guys like Cassaday or Hitch, whose work is undeniably beautiful but takes twice as long or three times as long to produce.

As for Djurdjevic on a monthly, I’m not sure, of course, but I’d guess that the dude is closer to the Hitch/Cassaday school than the Bagley one, in terms of time/art ratio.

But his art here did look amazing. I love his painted covers, wasn’t sure what his interior pencil art would look like, and it wound up looking great.

i’m excited to see djurdjevic’s first interiors but i’m twice as excited for coipel’s return.