Monday, January 7, 2008
Buy Spider-Girl #16
Rich Johnson writes in this week’s Lying In The Gutters column about the recent Marvel Comics “One More Day” debacle and has some sage advice for anyone wanting to send a message to the one time “House of Ideas”.
But before LITG readers leave all their Marvel books in droves… consider “Spider-Girl.” A monthly title published by Marvel featuring Peter Parker and Mary Jane, married, and even their little May Parker swinging around. If you really want a “screw you Joe” message, then sending this book up the ratings, written by a previous Editor-In-Chief to boot, would really do the trick. I understand some retailers have seen a small upswing for that book.
Joe Quesada uses the “Spider-Girl” example in his CBR interview, in a fairly dismissive and sarcastic fashion. But it’ll need a drop in Spider-Man sales and a bigger upswing in “Spider-Girl” before anyone will take any notice.
I remember reading Quesada’s mention of “Spider-Girl” and thinking that it was strange for the Editor-In-Chef of Marvel Comics to kind of dump on a Marvel comic. Then again, Quesada will be Quesada.
The next available issue of “Spider-Girl” (issue 16) comes out January 16. It’s a one-shot written by Tom DeFalco with pencils by Ron Frenz.
Why not pick up a copy or two?
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I was trying to think of a way of making “Quesada will be Quesada” into some kind of “Que sera sera” joke, but that turned out to be tougher than it sounds.
Here’s one:
(to the tune of Que Sera Sera)
“Que-sada, -sada,
Mar-vel will suck, always
Its future’s not bright, you see,
’cause of Que-sada, -sada.”
I need more time make that better. But until Weird Al gets around to it, it’ll have to do.