Spider-Girl Cancelled

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1. I find it funny people get so bent out of shape over change in their superheroes. I loved Mayday as much as any other fanboy but her book didn’t sell. So giving Arana the title wasn’t that big of a deal and is a good business move…though maybe not. (Also why call her Spidergirl when she has no spider powers…hell no powers at all that seems dumb). But considering the whole Spider-Woman mantle has been worn by alot of chicks it made sense that a 16 year old girl who was given said costume by a former Spider Woman would call herself that. There were problems with the book, i.e. what they did to her dad…c’mon….the lack of powers yet still a spider themed hero, her costume was a bit iffy, etc I don’t think people should crucify it over that. Then again comic fans hate change

   I mean heck I’m seeing people here complaining about the CLONE of Peter Parker using the Spider-man title, people raged over Bruce Wayne no longer being Batman, and the whole CAP HAS A GUN HE’S NOT MY CAP, there was constant internet battles over ending Dark Reign and so forth and so on. I’m not saying everything these creators do is gold and should be praised but damn people give it a chance at least. It’s gotten to the point where you can see how fast a book will get cancelled or a change will get undone simply because fanboys are too butthurt with the sudden change in direction (unless it’s Daredevil apparently people love it when Matt’s life goes to shit)

2. Loved the old Spider-Girl book and just felt it was way too soon to launch another.

   Being Latino, I was happy that there was a Hispanic Spider-Girl out there. Still having the new Spider-Girl say something along the lines of “I AM NOT SPIDER-MAN’S DAUGHTER” in the first issue of Big Time (or maybe it was in preview pages or something) quickly turned me off from even looking at her book. Just showing a tad of sensitivity to ailing Spider-Girl fans may have helped, or not, but who knows.

   Sometimes I wish current Marvel would learn just a bit more tact when it comes to situations like this.

   No offense to the Spidey crew. I actually love Amazing Spider-Man right now at the very least. What little I saw of the artwork of Spider-Girl I really liked so I hope the crew finds some more Marvel work in the future.

3. I’m glad this book is cancelled. I was a fan of the original book/concept, and I found it pretty insulting to see this attempt to wipe it all away. And I couldn’t care less about anyone from Marvels’ denials that this was precisely what this book was set out to do, for this is precisely how the fans took this. Denials won’t alter reality.

4. It’s not Marvel’s fault this got cancelled it’s the fact that not enough people bought it.

   So if people want someone to blame then blame the guys who didn’t buy the book.

5. Why did the mexican spidey get cancelled. Marvel you rascist embacils. Marvel should make a comic following an african american spidey, call it Spidey-Fro lol.bye

6. can we just bring back NOVA?

7. We all know that I’m Mayday fan, hence my website Spider-Girl’s World. In fact, I’ve defended the character of Anya Corzon since she first showed up. I actually read her series at the cafe during homework days after school. I enjoyed her series but I did agree with what Marcos and others have said up thread, killing off Anya’s father, which was bold turned off a lot of readers. In a way, people probably felt they were trying to have Anya go a “Peter Parker” approach, wich making her a complete orphan but since this is the modern age, she moves in with a close friend or gets close to Sue Richards who ends up her psedo aunt. Not a bad way to go but that important fact didn’t help her, even more that it was the Red Hulk who ended up killing him by accident. Seems to be a theme with old Thunderbolt, he gets used and ends up doing something horrible when he was just trying to uncover a secret gun running terrorist group. This didn’t help the book off from the get go.
   Second, as many others have said, myself included on my blog and other things, having Anya take the namee Spider-Girl” right after the last series was cancelled barely 2 weeks before they solicated this series, was not a great decision. She really should have had: “Arana” or something close to it. Also, her own team book, Young Allies, a great series in my opinion was just cancelled and gues what, that didn’t help her at all, especially when the book was kind of a way to help Anya’s own title launching just a few months afterwards but it hit her even harder.
   Third, Anya was established in Grim Hunt as being more of the inheritor to Mattie Franklin, the third Spider-woman after they killed the character and pretty much left Anya to fill in her role, when you had a character not touched but who had a lot of potential and mostly to fuel into Jameson’s story line with Marla being killed by Alister Smythe and now his adoptive neice was also killed by a well established Spider-man villain. Hence, insault to injury, head into Spider Island this summer. More plot contrievence than good story telling but does it work in that case? Sure. However, with all that said, this was a book that had too much going against, fan issues, submitting of character name after another title and so forth and now it’s lead to this. I hope to see Anya show up again somewhere, she’s a great character and right now would fit great with the current FF title, or Young Avengers, so there is hope.
   Now with all that said, I think it’s time to bring back May.

8. As a long time Spidey-aholic (35+ years…yeah, I hit 45 this year) I’m not at all surprised at this title being axed. Marvel has let me down in many ways in recent years, with my main complaint being …ahem… THE STUPID VARIANT COVERS!!!!! I miss the days of old, where a comic cover was amazing, and years later you could look at the cover, and recall the great or not so great story told inside. I decided a few years ago, I’ll never buy another comic book off the shelf, one reason is price $3.99 or even $2.99? too damn much. The variant cover crap on every issue for no reason is reason two…. and now the greed of digital comics. I love my iPad, I read comics on it all the time, but they’re all the comics I have on DVD from marvel, MAD, Archie…etc. I see new or old issues being sold for $1.99 or more in Marvel and Comic Apps, and I just see greed. Comics I can pick up at the comic store in 25-50 cent back issue bins… and they want $2 bucks or more for a digital download? I think not. So sorry about the rant, but some times old folks like myself need to vent. I still got my full run of Amazing Spidey updated to issue 620, thanks to a good friend on eBay that sells them in runs of 20 or 25 issues, at about 15 dollars plus shipping. Thats how I’ll continue to buy them. Marvel needs to drop prices, stop the Variant Cover nonsense and get back to telling Great Stories, and readers would come back. Want to catch the digital bandwagon, then sell new issues for .99cents like a song download, and old issues for .25 to .50 cents. Just my opinion.

   Keep On Thwipin’!!!
   Sam <– sporting his new (3rd) Spider-Man Tattoo. Got it last week, and it looks great. Will post pics sometime later.

9. Everyone, please stop bashing Wacker. It takes up space and isn’t really a useful addition to this post.

10. Okay. That was funny.

11. I swear this book gets cancelled every other month

12. I loced May and was very pissed when her ongoing was canceled (especily since it was the last place i could see a married Peter/MJ couple). But I did gave a chance to the new spider-girl (well not technicaly new since they are 2 different universes…) and man was i glad i did. I enjoyed Spider-girl much more than i did Avengers! I just hope she wont end up like the young allies, as a side story in an overpriced annual in a book i dont read…

13. I’m glad. I can’t stand Arna taking over. 🙂 May, is great all the way.

14. Two things jumped out at me reading these comments…

    1. There is some seriously displaced anger at Arana by a few posters here.

    2. Steve Wacker is breeding! There’s another generation of Wackers coming people!! 😛 Just kidding Steve. Enjoy parenthood, I know I am! 🙂

15. @wacker dude couldn’t you just make all the betahouse members shut up by telling em it was a miniseries in the first place? 😀

    well now that arana and mayday are cancelled (though arana will no doubt be a supporting character in asm) the only spidergirl who will have her own title is ultimate jessica drew!!!!

    mark my words when they kill off ultimate spidey she’ll be waiting in the wings

    there can be only one!

16. @Wacker: if “Spider-Girl” the 1st book/character ran its course, why feel the need to continue the name with a wholly different character?

17. Personally I’ve had mixed feelings about this title for a while but hearing that its getting cancelled is ashame. What really drew me towards the book was how the heck an ongoing series about a teenage girl; with no powers; going by the name “Spider-Girl” would work. Now I see where that direction has lead to but I was and still am interested in the concept. That’s just my two cents though.

    Yeah, I stole Two-Bit’s catch phrase though I do feel bad that he won’t be reviewing the title after issue 8 is out. Don’t let that get you down though! 🙂

18. Ha! That seems more like giving up comics than a publisher, but point taken. I’ve ebbed and flowed from time to time as well when nothing was striking my fancy.

    This new Punisher run is all about musical theatre, so the first year is all Frank auditioning. It builds from there though.

    SW

19. @BD – I love Rucka’s crime-related stuff. I really enjoyed the Hell out of Gotham Central. Never read any of his Wolverine stuff, or if I did I don’t recall it. But he’s an amazing crime writer and he’s fantastic at making characters three-dimensional. To me the Punisher’s always been two-dimensional and has fallen flat when people try to make him three-dimensional. But if anyone can do it and make it work while making it interesting while sticking with the character it’s Rucka.

    @SW – By your definition I am probably not a “smart seeming adult” because I’ve walked away from Marvel before – both times were Spider-related. When I was three Spider-Man was my doorway into not just Marvel, but all comics, and when in my eyes the character goes completely off the rails it actually sours me on practically everything else comics related. During the Clone Saga when they tried to push the “Peter’s the clone” moment, I walked away from all comics for two years. The taste in my mouth was that bad. After OMD/BND I went through the same thing, though I kept reading Thor and Spider-Girl. JMS left Thor and I didn’t like where the title started going afterward, so I ditched. The only other Marvel title I was reading after that was Spider-Girl and, well. I hadn’t read DC for a long time because of the unending Crisis events, so I stayed away from DC. If that makes me petulant then color me happily petulant. My wallet’s happy I am so picky. It probably wishes I would drive less and spend less on gas now, too. Heh.

    And I liked the ‘Welcome Back, Frank’ story that Ennis started off with. But then the stories became a parody of themselves and were filled with little else but shock value, and I didn’t stick around long. But I do give Ennis credit, and a lot of it, for getting people to like the Punisher again.

20. Understood. No reason to buy a book if it’s not your thing.

    Gotta be honest that I don’t buy that people…particularly smart seeming adults…really swear off publishers. Seems excessively petulant. But I’m glad you’re excited about the book for whatever reason. Greg and Marco are working hard to make sure this has a reason to be.

    I will say though that Garth sure didn’t make Punisher comics easy for anyone else!

    SW