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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Action Lab Comics doesn't pay their writers and artists until a book has been completed and approved to print by publishers. This means that Action Lab can drag their feet on releasing fully completed issues and volumes in order to hold off paying the comic's creative team for months and years. They even pulled ''Princeless'' and ''Raven: The Pirate Princess'' issues off of Comixology specifically to avoid having to pay what they owe. Due to this, Jeremy Whitley has publicly criticized and disavowed Action Lab and the future of the series remains uncertain.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Action Lab Comics doesn't pay their writers and artists until a book has been completed and approved to print by publishers.the publisher. This means that Action Lab can drag their feet on releasing fully completed issues and volumes in order to hold off paying the comic's creative team for months and years. They even pulled ''Princeless'' and ''Raven: The Pirate Princess'' issues off of Comixology specifically to avoid having to pay what they owe. Due to this, Jeremy Whitley has publicly criticized and disavowed Action Lab and the future of the series remains uncertain.
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* AcclaimedFlop: The series is both Eisner nominated comic and a Glyph Award winner. However, sales have been on the decline, enough to prompt the publisher to switch the ongoing to a digital format to save printing costs.
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* AcclaimedFlop: The series is both Eisner nominated comic and a Glyph Award winner. However, sales have by the creators' own admission, the series has never been on the decline, enough to prompt the publisher to switch the ongoing to much of a digital format to save printing costs.cash cow.
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* CreatorBacklash: Jeremy Whitley and Emily C. Martin have both been vocal in their distaste for how Action Lab Comics mistreats creators and are currently part of a class action lawsuit against the company. In late 2022, when Action Lab Comics announced that they were releasing what would have been the first issue of Volume Ten for Free Comic Book Day 2023, the two slammed the publisher for releasing their work without having paid them or the rest of the creative team and urged fans not to pick it up.
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* ShelvedForRelease: Volume 10 of the main comic is deep into production but has no date of release due to the payment issues with Action Lab. Volume 9 of ''Raven: Pirate Princess'' has been finished and another eight issues have been fully scripted, but the release and any further production on them have been stalled for the same reason.
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* AcclaimedFlop: The series is both Eisner nominated comic and a Glyph Award winner. However, sales have been on the decline, enough to prompt the publisher to switch the ongoing to a digital format to save printing costs.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Action Lab Comics doesn't pay their writers and artists until a book has been completed and approved to print by publishers. This means that Action Lab can drag their feet on releasing fully completed issues and volumes in order to hold off paying the comic's creative team for months and years. They even pulled ''Princeless'' and ''Raven: The Pirate Princess'' issues off of Comixology specifically to avoid having to pay what they owe. Due to this, Jeremy Whitley has publicly criticized and disavowed Action Lab and the future of the series remains uncertain.
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** Volume 9 was originally going to release in late 2019 as individual issues like the volumes before they were canceled in favor of releasing the them in a single graphic novel. However, all four individual issues were properly solicited to comic stores and were released digitally on Comixology for a few weeks before being removed in preparation for the full collected volume.
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** The original plans for Volume 9 onward was originally going to release in late 2019 that it would cease as individual issues like the volumes before they were canceled in favor of releasing the them in a single monthly comic and be released as graphic novel. novels only. However, all four individual issues were properly solicited then it was decided to comic stores and were make the ongoing a bi-weekly digital series while publishing the graphic novel as a physical release. But then Action Lab decided to meddle with the planned release to avoid paying the creative team, resulting in the already released digitally on Comixology digital comics being taken down for a few weeks months before being removed in preparation put back up without any current dates for the full collected volume.a physical release.
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* BonusMaterial: Several side story isses have been released so far: ''Short Stories for Warrior Women #1, Short Stories for Warrior Women #2, Tales of the Family Ashe,'' and ''Tales of Girls who Rock''.
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* BonusMaterial: Several side story isses compilations have been released so far: ''Short Stories for Warrior Women #1, Short Stories for Warrior Women #2, Tales of the Family Ashe,'' and ''Tales of Girls who Rock''.
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** Volume 9 was originally going to release in late 2019 as individual issues like the volumes before it, with the solicitations for all four issues being advertised. This was abandoned in favor of releasing the issues in a single graphic novel.
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** Volume 9 was originally going to release in late 2019 as individual issues like the volumes before it, with the solicitations for all four issues being advertised. This was abandoned they were canceled in favor of releasing the issues them in a single graphic novel.novel. However, all four individual issues were properly solicited to comic stores and were released digitally on Comixology for a few weeks before being removed in preparation for the full collected volume.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Raven was originally supposed to be a one-shot character who would appear for only eight pages, but Jeremy Whitley thought she had potential and decided to give the character her own arc and her own spin off book.
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** Raven was originally supposed to be a one-shot character who would appear for only eight pages, but Jeremy Whitley thought she had potential and decided to give the character her own arc and her own spin offbook.book.
** Volume 9 was originally going to release in late 2019 as individual issues like the volumes before it, with the solicitations for all four issues being advertised. This was abandoned in favor of releasing the issues in a single graphic novel.
** Raven was originally supposed to be a one-shot character who would appear for only eight pages, but Jeremy Whitley thought she had potential and decided to give the character her own arc and her own spin off
** Volume 9 was originally going to release in late 2019 as individual issues like the volumes before it, with the solicitations for all four issues being advertised. This was abandoned in favor of releasing the issues in a single graphic novel.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Raven was originally supposed to be a one-shot character who would appear for only eight pages, but Jeremy Whitley thought she had potential and decided to give the character her own arc and her own spin off book.
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* BonusMaterial: Several side story isses have been released so far: ''Short Stories for Warrior Women #1, Short Stories for Warrior Women #2, Tales of the Family Ashe,'' and ''Tales of Girls who Rock''.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Jeremy Whitley himself is white and male, but Adrienne is modeled after his wife and sister-in-law. Both are black, and the latter is named Adrienne.
