Marvel Cancellations?

[Flightpath07]

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=40288

Interesting article. As a person who is not a finance major, I have trouble wrapping my head around everything said here, but from how well DC is doing, and with the push on now from the lesser-lights and smaller companies, I can see why Marvel has had to make a drastic change to their lineups.

http://www.previewsworld.com/Home/1/...ticleID=124267

[Le Messor]

I note (with a trace of sadness) that three issues of AvX were in the top 10.

That's why it's event after event after event...

- Le Messor
"Imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism."
~ George Bernard Shaw

[Jason Eberly]

I note (with a trace of sadness) that three issues of AvX were in the top 10.

That's why it's event after event after event...

Don't blame me...I didn't buy them!

[Flightpath07]

Don't blame me...I didn't buy them!

Thank you for standing strong, Jason!

[Phil]

sigh. is that anything like "not done done"? or anything like "all new, except for the parts that aren't"? or "reboot without rebooting"?

Sorry. I just get so tired of double-speak

But that's the thing; Marvel have never used the word cancellation; that was purely other websites and that my issue with that Midtown article.
All the stated was that the October solicited issues were the final issues in that Volume.
There was never any claim that the series' were cancelled or that there wouldn't be a new issue the following month.

As to your Bendis point... I tend to be with you on that one, but I'll wait to get the first issue before I comment.

And don't ever be sorry for ranting, even though I didn't personally consider anything you put a rant.

[Phil]

I'm actually enjoying AvX for the most part.

I haven't bought any tie-in issues, bar the Jeffries AA ones, and I've understood the storyline. I've preferred it to Fear Itself, Siege and Secret Invasion as a whole; possibly for the different writers - I've really enjoyed Fraction and Aaron's issues, and 'strangely enough' been really underwhelmed by Bendis' ones so far.

[Le Messor]

I'm actually enjoying AvX for the most part.

Nooooooooooooooo!!!!

Wait, no, that's fine. It's up to you what you enjoy.

OTOH, my issue with it is more the principle behind it than whether it's enjoyable for itself.

- LM
"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."
~ Samuel Smiles

[Flightpath07]

But that's the thing; Marvel have never used the word cancellation; that was purely other websites and that my issue with that Midtown article.
All the stated was that the October solicited issues were the final issues in that Volume.
There was never any claim that the series' were cancelled or that there wouldn't be a new issue the following month.

As to your Bendis point... I tend to be with you on that one, but I'll wait to get the first issue before I comment.

And don't ever be sorry for ranting, even though I didn't personally consider anything you put a rant.

Well, as i stated back on the first page of this thread, "I thought I read there would be 20 new titles. Unless they are re-naming a full twenty new titles (seems unlikely that more than 10 would be renamed, if that many), i would think they would have to drop some titles."

That has been what I have been waiting to figure out, and was 'somewhat' the point (for me) of this thread; what will be renamed, what will be brand new, and what will be discontinued.

There are some grey areas, to be sure. For instance, if Hulk becomes Red She Hulk, isn't that technically a discontinue of one series (Hulk) followed by the launching of a new series (Red She Hulk)? Marvel seems to see that differently than i do.

All in all, just waiting to see what titles will be chopped and lost. Hoping they aren't the few (2) that I currently enjoy from Marvel. In other news that is much the same, I muse that if they change creative teams on the titles I currently get, i may no longer get those titles; we'll see.

I wasn't so much using the midtown article as the one I linked to on page one of this thread, about four or six posts down. They never said 'cancel' either, it was just implied as the article wondered what would be unveiled. And with "20 new titles" promised, i still tend to think that at least a few titles/series have to go the way of the dodo.

And Phil, i am NEVER really sorry for ranting...I just sometimes feel so disgusted with Marvel in particular that I am starting to wonder if i need to start my own crusade against them, lol.

[Phil]

So Spurrier's book is definitely X-Men Legacy and focuses on Legion, so it looks like New Mutants has been cancelled. So far anyway.

Si's sold the book to me in that non-interview interview already!

[Flightpath07]

On Twitter, Christos Gage confirms that Marvel is cancelling Avengers Academy after issue 39.

"I'm afraid so. It's been a hell of a ride. Thank you all. @TDSpidey616 NOooooooooooooooooooooooo! Avengers Academy ending at issue #39 "

So, down to only getting two Marvel comics now, and am expecting that one of "Defenders" or "Wolverine and the X-Men" will hit the chopping block as well. At this rate, I'll be Marvel-free soon! Yay!

[Phil]

Defenders is ending at #12.

[Flightpath07]

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/0...medium=twitter

Thanx Phil, just noticed that myself!

btw, is it just me, or does Marvel's "Indestructible Hulk" sound like a rip-off of DC's "Frankenstein: Agent of S.H.A.D.E." ? As a Franken-reader, I'd say it DOES!

[Le Messor]

I don't think I'll have any Marvels to pick up after this... though I'm tempted with that 'The First X-Men' book, despite it being everything I don't want.
What's wrong with me?

(P.S. I recently wrote Christos Gage in response to my published letter in #32, and told him that the way Marvel seems to be trying to make comics I don't enjoy, his AA job was in trouble...)

- Le Messor
"In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy."
~ Ivan Illich

[Alphan East]

Its amusing how Marvel lets their writers paint themselves into a corner with stories they don't know how finish, change characters with the same amount of thought as they use to change their socks, kill off beloved characters on nothing more than a whim... and then believe they can fix everything with a mindless sweep of cancellations and reboots.
Sorry, did I say amusing... I meant frustrating as $#!t.

[Flightpath07]

Hey there now Alphan East, come on; we all know that Marvel has said that no comics are being cancelled and that this is clearly not a reboot. And clearly we all need to take Marvel at their word.