Life & Wisdom Quote by Garth Ennis

Production is where creative romance goes to die, and Garth Ennis captures that with a line that sounds almost cheerful until you hear the grind inside it. "As the scripts come in" frames writing not as lightning-bolt inspiration but as incoming inventory. The scripts are items on a conveyor belt, immediately "sent to the artists" like work orders. That blunt pass-along is the real joke: the writer finishes, and the machine keeps moving.

The sly sting is in the forked outcome: the artists are "either very busy, or ready to start". Those are the only two states the system recognizes. No mention of "excited", "inspired", or "in sync" - just capacity. Ennis isn't insulting artists; he's acknowledging the brutal math of serialized comics, where deadlines and overlapping projects shape the art as much as the script does. His phrasing implies an industry built on triage: if your preferred collaborator is slammed, you wait or you adapt, because the schedule doesn't care about your ideal creative pairing.

There's also a quiet power shift embedded here. The writer may be the named author, but the artist's availability governs the timeline. Ennis, a veteran of deadline-heavy, publisher-driven runs, is signaling an unglamorous truth about collaboration: it's less like a duet and more like air-traffic control. The line works because it refuses drama. It's a shrug that doubles as a diagnosis of how comics actually get made.