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They've cancelled two comics with great potential, before they've even had time enough to sell three issues.
(I should probably supply some background so people understand why I'm annoyed.)
Marvel Comics, home of SpiderMan, the Hulk, Thor, the FF, etc, about a year and a half ago started a new "line" of comics, MC2. This was set 15 years in the future (a possible future) of current Marvel continuity. Well-known characters had died, retired, disappeared, or what-have-you, and the "Next Generation" of heroes was just coming into its own.
It all started with an issue of "What if?" with a future May Parker, daughter of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson, becoming the new "Spider-Girl." This issue was so popular it spawned the MC2 line practically by itself.
So, Marvel created the MC2 universe, and populated it with 3 books: Spider Girl, J2 (son of Juggernaut), and A-Next (the new Avengers).
They cancelled J2 and A-Next after 12-issue runs. A full issue of stories, and they promised to keep the characters around in the two NEW comics they were coming out with, based on fan polls for what comics the fans most wanted to see: The Fantastic Five, and Wild Thing (daughter of Electra and Wolverine [who is perhaps the coolest character ever]), as well as Spider-Girl.
But now they're kaput. After FIVE STINKIN' ISSUES, THREE of which haven't even HIT THE STORES YET!!!
This eerily echoes what happened with Marvel's LAST experimental line, Marvel 2099. Which, at the time was ALSO my favorite Marvel line, and got me buying comics again in the FIRST place. It managed to last a LITTLE longer, but dwindled from 6 to 3 to 1 to 0 titles in little over a year and a half.
GRR.
What's that, you say? He's too old to be buying comic books, you say?
BALDERDASH!
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I sympathize with you, 1st of 2. I used to collect comics and was very upset when a promising new title was given short shrift as you have described.
Curse you, Stan Lee!
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I am also disappointed about how good new comics are cancelled just after the starting gate. It is extremely annoying. I'm also upset about what happend to the transformers.
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Yup. About that Transformers thing. But for a more up to date annoyance, I'll pick...when Marvel 'removed' Peter David from the Hulk, and then reset almost everything he'd done, AND did the extrememly annoying thing of resetting the issue numbers (Hulk I believe was the comic that had managed to get to the highest number, around 475, after Thor. I think).
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Though it should be noted that Hulk is slated to be written by the very talented (and British) Paul Jenkins, starting with #12. I have high hopes.
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(which reminds me, I never have forgiven Marvel for taking away Wolvie's adamantium and giving him stupid bone claws.)
This means the only remaining Marvel comics I read are Generation X, Mutant X, and Spider-Girl. (sigh)
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Well, I didn't count Earth X because it's not really a continuing series. I DO get it, however, and it rocks.
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