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Sensational and Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man cancelled
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...and Amazing spider-man goes to 3 issues a month. Apparently this happens after the One More Day storyline.
Read the whole thing here: http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=10874
Didn't see this posted yet.
Over the years Marvel Comics has published a number of books starring Spider-Man, but "Amazing Spider-Man" has always been s the flagship title in the line. In a few months "Amazing" will not only be the flagship title of the linem it will be one of the only titles in the line as "Sensational Spider-Man" and "Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" come to an end (other books like "Spider-Man Family" will continue). Spidey fans don't need to worry though; they won't be seeing any less of their favorite character because "Amazing Spider-Man" will begin an almost weekly publication schedule. CBR News spoke with "Amazing Spider-Man" editor Stephen Wacker about the changes to the book.
Read the whole thing here: http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=10874
Didn't see this posted yet.
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I'm actually kinda bummed about this, if only because FNS was pretty entertaining. Oh, and also because I have a subscription. However, I'm just gonna move my remaining issues over to She-Hulk, so it's all good. I also get ASM, so this just means I'll be renewing my subscription three times a year.
Still, it's sort of a very sly, dickish move for Marvel to take three slightly connected Spidey books that you could read seperately, and replacing it with one book you have to buy three times a month if you want the whole story.
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But then I was like "nah, that'd be too "me too!" of them"
I guess this way they get to do a weekly, just without explicitly having a weekly schedule and therefore without getting panned for slipping a week or so here and there.
Anally.
Edit: Specifically to ASM. Do you get 3 a month, just 1? Hmm...
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What's the difference? You're getting the same number of comics each month. If you already subscribe to Amazing then you'll just get it more, and you won't get the other two at all... what with them not existing and all that.
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The three-a-month thing seems kind of cool though, assuming they can get some good talent on the book.
I actually liked them all... I just found some elements really jarring.
Like, the end of Civil War in particular... where Spidey is super-pissed bad-ass guy, but in his other books he's still all light hearted and what-not.
Plus I hate how they have this huge Other story, then ignore it in everything but Friendly... just seems out of place.
And I know he's had some darker moments in Friendly. He got ridiculously pissed off at a cop in this month's issue, for one.
Man, that was a pretty awesome moment. Also, the fact that he said "whatcha gonna do with all that junk, all that junk inside that trunk".
God, I'm gonna miss FNS.
I hope they keep Peter David on for one of the other ASM books. He's part of the reason I liked FNSM.
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Dan motherfucking Slott son.
Which is kinda funny if the rumours are true, he's kind of switching places with PD.
Not to mention the need for a team of quality comparable the one 52 had.
Considering the talent they've got at Marvel right now, I don't think this is impossible to achieve.
So I'm pretty sure they'll be just fine.
It's not just a question of talent, though. There's a great deal of teamwork involved in weekly title due to collaboration between writers. At least with 52 everyone was working towards the same end, but in this case there isn't a even a goal in mind, much less a shared one.
They're all doing their own stories, and it's only a matter of time before one proposal steps on the toes of another, leading to some squabble over who gets to use what rogue and whether or not it's okay to introduce a plot element that'll undoubtedly affect the next arc.
Couple that with the fact that a weekly format means stories are more quickly forgotten, leading to a smaller degree of appreciation for each writer, and it just seems like so much can go wrong.
And for what? To cop 52's style, a feat that consolidates the Spider titles and saps extra money from anyone who wasn't already buying all three books and does little for the character himself beyond tidying up continuity (something I don't care about, personally, since where a title fits into continuity stops mattering after a few months as people forget chronology of release).
And stricter deadlines won't do shit for the writing, now will it?
I thought that the way this worked was, a team draws and writes for a month, an arc, whatever (set period of time), and then another team steps in.
There's a good chance I'm wrong, but that was what I heard.
And I'm going to trust the editors to make sure the flow of the arcs stays smooth as they hand off to other writers. Mainly because that's their job.
Unless they're slapping a mandate on Spider-Man that prevents his life from changing in any significant way so long as Amazing is weekly, the writer for every given month will see his arc affected by both the work of his predecessor and the demands of his successor.
Geebs: Anyone who was content with Amazing Spider-Man alone, for budgetary reasons or because they simply didn't want to read the character so many times in a month, now has to either give up following the title in its entirety or spend as much as someone who was buying all 3 books.
It's not a big deal. It's just a hobby, after all, but it's still irritating.
And it doesn't do anything to improve the book, so there's no benefit to the consumer balanced against the benefit to Marvel.
The budget thing is kind of an issue, but 52 did fine (better than fine) with a cast of characters that wasn't exactly filled to the brim with franchise characters, not to mention that it had sixteen issues more in a year. I know it had a set end point, and that definitely helped.
And the whole "hampered by what someone else is doing" is a ridiculous point to bring up, as that is just a core issue in working in the Marvel or DC Universes, not to mention working on such a high-profile character with a massive history like Spider-Man.
This is all moot unless they get the right talent on the book, though. If the books suck, this whole argument is pointless (and it probably already is pointless). I think it probably has a higher chance of success than most things like this because it is Spider-Man.
Besides, I think the reason a lot of people aren't picking up Friendly or Sensational right now is because they don't know where there stories fit in with the current universe. So why, say, Amazing might take a drop in sales per issue, the other two issues of it a month will probably sell better than the other two Spidey books do at the moment, and that would probably be worth the experiment.
It's like I'm getting EVEN MORE Spider-man each month, when it's the exact same amount.
52 was an experiment in story-telling. This is just an experiment in repackaging. There's no reason to believe Amazing will improve as a result, beyond the book itself simply becoming faster, because the aim clearly isn't to make a better book or a more interesting book.
52 was also an all-new title featuring characters who hadn't sustained titles of their own in years, if ever. Fans of other books weren't made to turn to 52 to read solo adventures featuring their favorite character, and so anybody who chose to keep up with 52 did so because of their own interest alone rather than "strong encouragement" on the part of DC in the form of title cancellations.
While the issue is a strong factor in the production of every important title in both houses, it becomes that much more problematic with this book. Though three separate writers were granted certain amounts of leeway with their portrayals of the character due to their stories taking place in three separate books, that freedom will almost certainly be eliminated as all solo stories about Spider-Man are placed in one book. Suddenly writer B can't do a comedic battle with Batroc the Leaper because writer A's story ended with a school shooting, whereas with two different titles both stories would have been possible.
Hello, unnecessary constraints on story-telling.
Yeah, consistency was already an issue with Spider-Man. But forcing all his writers to share one title makes it more of an issue.
You really think people do this? Personally, I don't see how having no idea when a story takes place would ruin my enjoyment of it.
Like I said before, when I read a Spider-Man arc years from now, I'm not even going to remember that he was doing something completely different in New Avengers at the time of the story.
And I don't even care right now, for that matter.
It depends on your standards for success. If making Marvel money constitutes success, then yeah it's great so long as they can keep writers on it. People will buy it simply because it's the only Spider-Man book they can buy.
If your standards are set by actual quality, though, then I think there's a lot to worry about and absolutely no reason to be optimistic.
Same editor?
And you are correct, not enough in common. Though MARVEL would have never tried this if not for 52.