The Crew #2: Big Trouble in Little Mogadishu, Chapter Two: Kasper

[superboyprime]

"My biggest disappointment with The Crew was with Marvel’s marketing department. I never understood any of those people. I don’t know whose cousin they were or from under which rock the suits found these guys and brought them in, but, at least back in my day, these were some of the most inept, unimaginative, stone-headed people I’d ever seen. It seemed to me that Marvel Creative would come up with these great ideas, and then the marketing department would blow it. All along the development process, we, in fact, knew they would blow it. These guys worked in advertising or for, I don’t know, Wall Street Week or whatever, but they would drop the ball and drop it hard every single time. There was a contentious spirit between creative and marketing at both DC and Marvel, with, my take on it, the marketing guys looking at the creative guys like children, and the creative guys typically upset that long days of hard work ended up for nothing because marketing would not get off its duff and actually go sell comic books." - Christopher Priest

Comments

[zachbeacon]

My reaction upon learning that the prolific creator that we're not supposed to talk about started out in Marvel's marketing department. ..

"Wait, MARVEL has a marketing department?"

Edit: I'd forgotten how much of this series was wasted on the standard Marvel "heroes in conflict over misunderstandings" plot. That really takes its toll when the series only lasts one arc.

[freezer]

The dialog says someone watched WAAAAY too much NYPD Blue.

[miramira]

I've been having trouble putting my finger on what bothers me about this character so much (apart from his attitude toward his girlfriend, that is), but I think you're right: for all that this is trying to claim a level of authenticity other superheroes and law enforcement characters don't achieve, it really doesn't feel that way.