CrossGen: All Infinite Things Must Come To An End
Bill Rosemann,
recently
promoted from Director of Marketing & Communications to Senior
Vice President of Publishing, addressed (among other topics) the
cancellation of most of CrossGen's "Sigilverse" titles, which includes
all of the titles from the company's initial lauch (
Meridian,
Mystic,
Scion,
Sigil, and the previously-cancelled
The First).
I found these two bits from the interview amusing:
BILL ROSEMANN: First, since the launch of CrossGen, Mark
Alessi and the
creators repeatedly talked about how each of the series, while they
would last longer than a four-to-six-issue miniseries, were, in fact,
finite stories.
ROSEMANN: The intention for each of these titles to last indefinitely
was sincere -- just as it is with any publisher who launches an ongoing
title.
While I realize the two statements aren't outright contradictions, they
still struck me as incongruous: "We'd sincerely hoped we could
milk these series indefinitely, even if the stories we actually had to
tell were limited."
