The Caramel Yak

stevemaser asked: Are all issues of the relaunched Howard The Duck going to be $4.99? Or just the first issue? Thanks!

drhastings:

zdarsky:

brevoortformspring:

All of the issues that include the Gwenpool story will be higher priced.

I have no control over the pricing of things at Marvel. I just got a phone call one day from Stan Lee where he said “FACE FRONT TRUE EXCELSIOR” and then made weird moaning sounds like he was enjoying a delicious sandwich. He then told me Howard was going to be $4.99. I flipped my LID and told him that I would quit in a few years if that was the case! But then he said there would be an extra ten pages of story in the issues. I paused for five minutes and did the math to figure out that it meant ten cents a page, which SEEMED okay, but it depended on what went on those pages. Would they be blank? Would they just be ten pages of Secret Wars they forgot to publish? So Stan sent me Chris Hasting’s script for the first instalment of his GWENPOOL backup and I laughed and squealed in delight because it was really good and absolutely worth ten cents a page.

I told Stan that I liked it and he said “My work’s done here! NUFF SAID!” but then stayed on the phone for another minute just breathing. It was nice actually! Really comforting.

Love,
Chip

Thanks, Chip! You’re a swell guy.