Post by Crimson Arrow on Jan 14, 2006 17:07:25 GMT -5
After many close calls, reprieves, and last minute stays of execution, May Parker’s luck has finally run out.
Marvel has confirmed for Newsarama that the long-running Spider-Girl series will end with issue #100, scheduled for August.
The character herself was born out of 1997’s What If? #105, which looked at the Marvel Universe’s future, and spawned its own sub-universe full of characters, called “MC2.” Due to strong fan reaction to this future version of both the Marvel heroes and their children (May Parker is the daughter of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Parker) Spider-Girl launched into her own series in 1998, along with J2 (12 issues, 1998 - a younger version/son of the current X-Men baddie/former member, Juggernaut), A-Next (12 issues, 1998 - the next generation of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes: Jubilee, Stinger, J2, Speedball, Thunderstrike, Mainframe), Fantastic Five (5 issues, The Millennium’s Greatest Comic Magazine featuring the adventures of Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, Lyja Storm, Ms. Fantastic, Ben Grimm the Thing, Franklin Richards, Psi-Lord, Reed Richards, Big Brain), Wild Thing (#0-5 in 1999, Wolverine’s daughter), The Buzz (3 issues in 2000, Jack Jameson, grandson of The Daily Bugle’s J. Jonah Jameson) and Darkdevil (3 issues, 2000). All other MC2 titles eventually fell by the wayside, but Spider-Girl continued, and is currently Marvel’s longest-running series featuring a female lead.
For virtually its entire run, the series has been written by former Marvel Editor in Chief, Tom DeFalco, with art by Pat Olliffe, Ron Frenz, and Sal Buscema.
Since shortly after it launched, the series was on the brink of cancellation, and was saved a handful of times (though one save did require a price increase) by concerted efforts by fans. Most recently, the series saw reprints in digest form begin, which, reportedly, helped saved the series from cancellation for a time again, but in the long run, Defalco told Newsarama (see above link) didn't help as much as they could have.
As news of what was thought to be the possible, impeding (though now confirmed) cancellation began to bubble, fans at the Spider-Girl Message Board have again taken the cause to save the series.
Marvel has confirmed for Newsarama that the long-running Spider-Girl series will end with issue #100, scheduled for August.
The character herself was born out of 1997’s What If? #105, which looked at the Marvel Universe’s future, and spawned its own sub-universe full of characters, called “MC2.” Due to strong fan reaction to this future version of both the Marvel heroes and their children (May Parker is the daughter of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Parker) Spider-Girl launched into her own series in 1998, along with J2 (12 issues, 1998 - a younger version/son of the current X-Men baddie/former member, Juggernaut), A-Next (12 issues, 1998 - the next generation of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes: Jubilee, Stinger, J2, Speedball, Thunderstrike, Mainframe), Fantastic Five (5 issues, The Millennium’s Greatest Comic Magazine featuring the adventures of Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, Lyja Storm, Ms. Fantastic, Ben Grimm the Thing, Franklin Richards, Psi-Lord, Reed Richards, Big Brain), Wild Thing (#0-5 in 1999, Wolverine’s daughter), The Buzz (3 issues in 2000, Jack Jameson, grandson of The Daily Bugle’s J. Jonah Jameson) and Darkdevil (3 issues, 2000). All other MC2 titles eventually fell by the wayside, but Spider-Girl continued, and is currently Marvel’s longest-running series featuring a female lead.
For virtually its entire run, the series has been written by former Marvel Editor in Chief, Tom DeFalco, with art by Pat Olliffe, Ron Frenz, and Sal Buscema.
Since shortly after it launched, the series was on the brink of cancellation, and was saved a handful of times (though one save did require a price increase) by concerted efforts by fans. Most recently, the series saw reprints in digest form begin, which, reportedly, helped saved the series from cancellation for a time again, but in the long run, Defalco told Newsarama (see above link) didn't help as much as they could have.
As news of what was thought to be the possible, impeding (though now confirmed) cancellation began to bubble, fans at the Spider-Girl Message Board have again taken the cause to save the series.
Credit Newsarama
Yup... one of the most constantly good books Marvel had put out in years is done for (again). The guys at www.comicboards.com/spidergirl/ are trying to save it (again).
It's pretty sad to see. I tried the series on a recommendation of a comic book store owner who I was pretty friendly with when he was shutting down his store... and now own the complete run including #0 and #1/2.
I'll be sad to see it go. I thought with the digests and Marvel's recent faith (Releasing LHS, green lighting a second LHS mini and giving Spider-Girl a new story in the Spider-Man family one shot) it was more safe now then it had been in years but sadly with sales at the 17,000 mark it's over.
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