Re: Brilliant business move, Joe
Thing is, does every series merit the high-gloss computer color treatment? Aren't some projects fine for b/w? Something perhaps subtler? In the days of Epic there wasn't a problem with that. I would take this as an opportunity to experiment, give people something different, explore other markets.
I say this as someone in indie comics, because none of us ever had a problem with it. MAUS seemed to do fine in straight b/w, didn't it? and LOVE & ROCKETS. What about just doing flat color in some books? Quesada seems to look at such things as cheaper somehow in execution. No, it's ANOTHER PRODUCTION CHOICE. It could be a remedy of the sameness you see across mainstream comics. Because the thing is? Most of that shit is ugly and too crowded-looking.
Oooh, though, flashy 3-D sparkly Photoshop dazzle! Incidentally, I do my comics partly in Photoshop, and guess what, you CAN do anything. But it doesn't mean you have to do EVERYthing on every book. For instance, I use it to get charcoal and wash effects sometimes.