Anonymous asked:

Hey Tom , I'm one of those nerds who enjoys reading Solicitations since it kind of lets me know what to pre order and with Uncanny Avenger and I quote "Against his masters’ orders a deranged and vengeful Sentry kills an Uncanny Avenger! No hoax, no dream and only the first casualty of many!" Which was a total lie!!!! Why Marvel allow for lies to be printed? To up the sales? This is very shameful since I went running to the store and reading the book there and all just to get frustrated!!

brevoortformspring answered:

This is a fair cop.

As you can imagine, in order to get out to you guys months ahead of time, our solicitations are written way ahead of time. And sometimes, for a variety of reasons, things change in a story. In this case, Rick had more story than he could fit into the space we’d allowed for it, and so the size of the story expanded, and the particulars changed a bit.

The stuff mentioned in that solicit is still in the cards, but it’s happening later that we’d anticipated when the solicit was written, and in a somewhat-different sequence. So it’s no longer “the first of many”. We tried to make as many people aware of that change as we could in the intervening time, but we couldn’t easily get to everyone.

But you’re absolutely right, it was a screw-up, Mea Culpa.

[deadhoneybeecandance]

So now it’s a matter of what this means, and if any of the other solicits are to be trusted. Is Janet still doing stuff and being “cursed evermore” in January?

[craftygeekgirl]

Nice use of the slippery slope fallacy. Just because a solicit was wrong, a solicit written months before the book was published mind you, doesn’t mean you can never trust the solicits again. Weather reports are wrong all the time; you still use them as a general idea of what to expect though, don’t you?

Having talked with some of the local comic creators in my area, (yay Portland) you’d be surprised the amount of change that can happen from story pitch to final draft of a script to print. I prefer to think of solicits like weather reports; just because they’re wrong sometimes I’m not going to throw them out.

[honeybeedance]

Hi. I reblogged this to speculate on how it affects a particular character. I’m not criticising, I’m objectively assessing how the unreliability of the solicits alters my expectations.