I remember seeing similar advertising in 90's comic books.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
It's worth another shot at a Ms. Marvel title, as the last series didn't really have to be cancelled at the sales it had, it just fit into the whole Heroic Age restart. And it was a solidly b-list creative team throughout as well.
02/09 Ms Marvel #36 - 25,864 ( -3.6%)
03/09 Ms Marvel #37 - 25,053 ( -3.1%)
04/09 Ms Marvel #38 - 27,535 (+10.0%)
05/09 Ms Marvel #39 - 24,757 (-10.1%)
06/09 Ms Marvel #40 - 25,216 ( +1.9%)
07/09 Ms Marvel #41 - 27,187 ( +7.8%)
07/09 Ms Marvel #42 - 25,103 ( -7.7%)
08/09 Ms Marvel #43 - 28,261 (+12.6%)
08/09 Ms Marvel #44 - 25,550 ( -9.6%)
09/09 Ms Marvel #45 - 30,528 (+19.5%)
10/09 Ms Marvel #46 - 25,717 (-15.8%)
11/09 Ms Marvel #47 - 22,937 (-10.8%)
12/09 Ms Marvel #48 - 22,527 ( -1.8%)
01/10 Ms Marvel #49 - 21,177 ( -6.0%)
02/10 Ms Marvel #50 - 25,309 (+19.5%)
The last few issues seemed to have taken a dip only because it was announced as being cancelled so everyone jumped ship.
If Marvel is banking on Captain Marvel being a more important name, I don't think it's the case, and anyone walking the store thinking it's Billy Batson will realize their error right away when they see a chick on the cover. I think of Ms. Marvel being much more an important name than Captain Marvel at the moment, as she has been ever since Heroes Return. She was the product of Captain Marvel's series, spun off into her own stuff for a bit with Binary, and became a sustainable character on her own. If you imagine the heroes in terms of skyscrapers, and the Captain Americas and Iron Mans are 100-story buildings, Ms. Marvel is probably around a 50-story building right now, but can keep growing up with a stronger focus on that name and building off the success of the past few years. Now, they're going to stop building up on that building and jump over to some 30-story building that is old and out of code and should have just been marked off as a historical landmark.
The BC piece makes a key point: There are no solo female books from Marvel. They can try Black Widow until Hell freezes over, and maybe the movie will spark interest this time, but from a business standpoint the second Ms. Marvel series was the most successful in recent time, so it's a safe choice to go with her.
Also, Carol was Captain Marvel in the House of M universe.
After Ms. Marvel's last solo series petered out, I kind of wish they'd give Monica Rambeau (or some other underutilized female character) a shot instead.
Changing Danvers' codename isn't going to make her any more interesting.
After Ms. Marvel's last solo series petered out, I kind of wish they'd give Monica Rambeau (or some other underutilized female character) a shot instead.
Changing Danvers' codename isn't going to make her any more interesting.
Give them both series. Carol & Monica are interesting enough for their own solo's.
Sure, she could be interesting, but I personally like to see different characters moving in and out of the spotlight instead of just rebooting the same character multiple times.
Sure, she could be interesting, but I personally like to see different characters moving in and out of the spotlight instead of just rebooting the same character multiple times.
I'd rather them go with a character who has some degree of proven marketability than another series that crashes and burns in six issues
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you know what'd be neat is if Marvel did a thing where they launched a Carol Danvers series, a She-Hulk series, and a Spider-Girl series at the same time and did some promotion about comics starring women for them
since a lot of you are excited about the digital codes in the Marvel books, you should head to the digital thread and check out my post. I don't want to be a goose and quote it in two other threads, but I'd like to point out that I bought six books with codes (all the UC issues with them so far), and only two of the codes worked properly as far as I can see. One code was even misprinted and for the wrong book.
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The last few issues seemed to have taken a dip only because it was announced as being cancelled so everyone jumped ship.
The last few issues of the Ms Marvel ongoing pissed me off more than anything else ever. The art was so fucking terrible, and the last issue just mashed a bunch of artists together like someone in the office had a contest on who could draw her the worst. In her last panel of issue 50, she looked black.
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I have watched JLU and enjoyed her appearances in it
Not massively interested in checking out her previous stuff
especially as I have heard the new Huntress is rather different
Just because they retconned continuity doesn't mean the previous Huntress wasn't good. Cry For Blood is by Greg Rucka and if you're a Gail Simone fan you need to check out her BOP run.
For reference of my hatred for the art in Ms Marvel #50. The final panel:
Edit: Never mind.
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spookymuffin( ° ʖ ° )Puyallup WA Registered Userregular
Fixed. Also note that it was only the last half of the issue that looked like that. It's like they pulled Sana Takeda off of it and just pointed to a random person and told them to draw Ms Marvel, but failed to show them references and just described her to him after jamming cotton into his ears.
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Whatever knows fear burns at the Man-Thing’s touch, wrote Steve Gerber. But what lights up Man Thing?
Marvel are going one more time to their muck-monster-in-resident for a new comic series in June. And this time they are giving it a rather flammable title.
Infernal Man-Thing.
What has got him all heated up? Is there a hell aspect to this title? Maybe it’s just anoyingly omnipresent, I don’t know. I don’t even know the people working on the book.
But I guess by WonderCon we all will. Let me know how it goes.
I think I’m going to be saying that a lot today.
As much as Man-Thing is super duper cool, can't see him supporting a solo series.
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what
it is literally two simple logos and a date
how is that 90s
I remember seeing similar advertising in 90's comic books.
02/09 Ms Marvel #36 - 25,864 ( -3.6%)
03/09 Ms Marvel #37 - 25,053 ( -3.1%)
04/09 Ms Marvel #38 - 27,535 (+10.0%)
05/09 Ms Marvel #39 - 24,757 (-10.1%)
06/09 Ms Marvel #40 - 25,216 ( +1.9%)
07/09 Ms Marvel #41 - 27,187 ( +7.8%)
07/09 Ms Marvel #42 - 25,103 ( -7.7%)
08/09 Ms Marvel #43 - 28,261 (+12.6%)
08/09 Ms Marvel #44 - 25,550 ( -9.6%)
09/09 Ms Marvel #45 - 30,528 (+19.5%)
10/09 Ms Marvel #46 - 25,717 (-15.8%)
11/09 Ms Marvel #47 - 22,937 (-10.8%)
12/09 Ms Marvel #48 - 22,527 ( -1.8%)
01/10 Ms Marvel #49 - 21,177 ( -6.0%)
02/10 Ms Marvel #50 - 25,309 (+19.5%)
The last few issues seemed to have taken a dip only because it was announced as being cancelled so everyone jumped ship.
If Marvel is banking on Captain Marvel being a more important name, I don't think it's the case, and anyone walking the store thinking it's Billy Batson will realize their error right away when they see a chick on the cover. I think of Ms. Marvel being much more an important name than Captain Marvel at the moment, as she has been ever since Heroes Return. She was the product of Captain Marvel's series, spun off into her own stuff for a bit with Binary, and became a sustainable character on her own. If you imagine the heroes in terms of skyscrapers, and the Captain Americas and Iron Mans are 100-story buildings, Ms. Marvel is probably around a 50-story building right now, but can keep growing up with a stronger focus on that name and building off the success of the past few years. Now, they're going to stop building up on that building and jump over to some 30-story building that is old and out of code and should have just been marked off as a historical landmark.
Also, Carol was Captain Marvel in the House of M universe.
How dare you sir. Carol Danvers is awesome.
Also, Ming Doyle had never even seen Binary, but she killed it in this piece. However, she is going to be doing a series with Brian Wood, so ... :S
Changing Danvers' codename isn't going to make her any more interesting.
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Just like every other character.
The question is if it's worth the effort, and I think it could be.
Give them both series. Carol & Monica are interesting enough for their own solo's.
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I'd rather them go with a character who has some degree of proven marketability than another series that crashes and burns in six issues
I want too!
Shit, they gave Agents of Atlas a million chances
I'd trade them in for a Ms Marvel or She-Hulk book right now for sure
I couldn't trade Huntress for either of them, sorry
since a lot of you are excited about the digital codes in the Marvel books, you should head to the digital thread and check out my post. I don't want to be a goose and quote it in two other threads, but I'd like to point out that I bought six books with codes (all the UC issues with them so far), and only two of the codes worked properly as far as I can see. One code was even misprinted and for the wrong book.
The last few issues of the Ms Marvel ongoing pissed me off more than anything else ever. The art was so fucking terrible, and the last issue just mashed a bunch of artists together like someone in the office had a contest on who could draw her the worst. In her last panel of issue 50, she looked black.
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I didn't really know much about Huntress previous to the recent mini
Which I do like a lot, I have to say
It's just that She-Hulk and Ms Marvel are the two Marvel women that I probably want a book about most
Watch Justice League Unlimited, read Huntress: Cry For Blood & Gail Simone's Birds of Prey. She's a great character.
Not massively interested in checking out her previous stuff
especially as I have heard the new Huntress is rather different
Just because they retconned continuity doesn't mean the previous Huntress wasn't good. Cry For Blood is by Greg Rucka and if you're a Gail Simone fan you need to check out her BOP run.
I am sure we have gone over this before
As for Simone I like some of her stuff (Secret Six) but some not so much (Batgirl)
Fair enough.
Her BOP is closer to Secret Six in quality. Haven't read her Batgirl series, stopped collecting before the DCnU began.
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Edit: Never mind.
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Other than the coloring I don't see a problem?
As much as Man-Thing is super duper cool, can't see him supporting a solo series.
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