Well, the fairly unsurprising news from the September DC solicits is that there’s now a fill-in artist on Final Crisis.
The good news is that its Carlos Pacheco, who did great work on some of the early issues of Green Lantern.
I don’t think anyone’s particularly shocked by this. The scuttlebut for a while has been that things were nowhere near as on track with Final Crisis as editorial would have you believe. Despite their best-laid plans (including a planned one-month gap in the story), most people had figured that JG Jones would fall behind schedule.
However, I’m not too dissappointed in this news. Carlos Pacheco is a great choice, and I think his style should match JG Jones’ enough to not be too jarring. I’ve not really got anything against the odd fill-in artist if it keeps the title from being delayed, although when it gets like GLC, who had about 3 or 4 artists on one issue during the Sinestro Corps at one point, then it gets distracting. But I don’t think it will be in this case, with just the two artists.
DC have taken late-running of their series very seriously over the last couple of years, and they’ve made great progress improving things. As long as this nips any late-running of Final Crisis in the bud, then I don’t have a problem with it.
Really nice cover as well. That’s a great image of the new Darkseid.
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