User blog:Johnnybravo44/Canceled comics.

Title says it all really. Lately, Marvel has canceled a few series. But why..?



Iron Man 2.0 has been canceled with issue #12, Alpha Flight has been canceled with issue #8, X-23 has been canceled with issue #20. Not to mention All-Winners Squad will not see the print of issue #6 and 7, and the Victor von Doom miniseries will apparently never see the light of day.

Alpha Flight being a planned eight issue miniseries must have hurt to the die hard Alpha Flight fans, but Marvel's promise to extened the book only to now cancel it, must really kill them.

And while there aren't too many Iron Man 2.0 (written by Nick Spencer) fans, I'm sure to each his own. They've gotta be mad too. I do find it a bit weird that the Victor von Doom series (also written by Nick Spencer) is canceled when the first issue was supposed to come out...this month.



But the most buzz on the canceled comics is from X-23. I'll be honest, I knew it couldn't last long. I'd think Daken: Dark Wolverine won't be too far behind, but I'm not so sure now.. Anyways, the main reason most people seem to be the most mad at X-23's cancelation is because it is currently Marvel's only female-led on-going series.



But should they have canceled it? It is after all the only self-titled female book currently out by Marvel, but I don't think that is related. Oh wait, it totally could be the fact that a female comic reader is rare. Or that a male comic reader wishing to read a book with a female lead is rare. Unless Marvel sex-es up that book. Than more people will get it, to be brutally honest. Sure there are other books with female characters, but this is the only one with a female at the core of the story.

But she will be in Avengers Academy soon, as well as a Venom miniseries, so maybe she won't have the time for her own series? Sales reports have shown that her book seems to at least be doing better than others. Not the worst book, but of course certainly not the best. In fact, her book even did better than Avengers Academy for last month, the book she will be joining. It was the #104 best book of October, beating the likes of Daken, Alpha Flight, Ghost Rider, X-Factor and Thunderbolts for the month.



Is there a bigger reason behind it? The solicit says she will be returning to Utopia with #20, so maybe she'll stay with Cyclops and friends. Or turn with Wolverine. Or completely forget all of them, as she is joining the Avengers Academy in issue #24. I guess we'll just have to wait and see..

Counting the fifteen or so employees Marvel layed off roughly a month back, it seems they're making some cuts lately. They have been putting out considerably less miniseries lately, and I'm sure that contributes to the fact as well. What do you think about all this? Are you sad to see your comic go? Or have you shamefully not followed any of these titles, like me..?

--Johnnybravo 44 (talk) 02:15, November 18, 2011 (UTC)

P.S. - Scratch that, I picked up an issue or two of X-23 with Gambit in it. No comment on the rest though...