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"Image Comics&amp;#039; Butcher Baker, The Righteous Maker has apparently concluded over a creative conflict. Writer Joe Casey has criticised Mike Huddleston&amp;#039;s time management, with the artist hitting back regarding the project&amp;#039;s success. &amp;quot;My TV workload is bats**t crazy and I&amp;#039;ll completely cop to that, but it actually has nothing to do with the interminable wait between Butcher Baker #7 and #8,&amp;quot; Casey told Comic Book Resources. &amp;quot;The fact is, [Mike] Huddleston found himself in a tough spot, having over-committed himself beyond the point of rational thought. He fell way behind and there was nothing I could do about it. It&amp;#039;s frustrating as hell and, in my opinion, supremely embarrassing.&amp;quot; Casey continued: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not helping the cause of creator-owned comic books when creators can&amp;#039;t keep their s**t together. Going into this, I thought it would be a fun, breezy ride that I could kick back and get my rocks off doing every month. Turns out, I&amp;#039;ve had to learn some harsh lessons from the experience.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Not to take a personal conflict public (although Joe wasn&amp;#039;t shy about giving his opinion via interview), but for the record: &amp;#039;overcommitment&amp;#039; was not the issue with Butcher&amp;#039;s schedule,&amp;quot; Huddleston wrote in response on Facebook. &amp;quot;As much as I love Butcher Baker, it was a project that just didn&amp;#039;t make enough money for me to live on. I had to take other work to keep the lights on and work on Butcher when I could. I&amp;#039;ve apologized to fans and to Joe for the delay.&amp;quot; Bleeding Cool reports the artist as continuing to say: &amp;quot;This is the end.&amp;quot; There was a ten-month gap between the 7th and 8th issues of Butcher Baker. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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