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All a ploy to launch All New The Eternals and build a film franchise, no doubt.

The only thing Crystal had going for her was the hairstyle you take that away and it leaves nothing. But that can be said of all but 3 or 4 of the Inhumans so that just moves her back into the crowd, i guess.

I was just thinking about how we were facing a severe shortage of both Inhumans and Charles Soule books.

I would kill to see Spider-woman on the big screen.

“exists simply because it does,”

Bullseye, Morris.

Does the artist have something against eyebrows? The Hulk has none and the A on Cap’s head is taking over his face.

I LOVE Stefano Caselli, but he’s not a monthly title artist. He’s BARELY a rotating artist on Amazing Spiderman (an issue here, an issue there) so I have a feeling it won’t be long ’til this book has lots of fill-ins.

Deconnick is one of the best writers Marvel has right now. Her Osborn series was fantastic and Captain Marvel is off to a solid start. Looking forward to this.

Is Spider-Woman beholden to Sony? She has no connection to Peter Parker and was essentially created to preemptively protect the trademark. Given that (apparently) Marvel and Fox co-own the film rights to Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, I wouldn’t be surprised if Spider-Woman was under a similar deal with Sony, if not owned outright by Marvel.

Either way, Spider-Woman and Captain Marvel could both fit in the movieverse’s cosmic direction, and it would be a shame for Marvel to miss the chance.

Fraction must be so proud.

Steve,

Alexa did a report on this too. Can you tell one critical difference between hers and yours?

http://www.ladiesmakingcomics.com/post/29362891591/more-on-kelly-sue-deconnicks-upcoming-avengers

Stefano Caselli leaves his duties as one of the rotating artists for Amazing Spider-Man in order to join the series, which doesn’t have an ongoing premise yet. Much like Astonishing X-Men, this is perhaps a title which exists because it simply does, and the purpose will get locked in at a later date.

That’s been the cause of countless problems over the years. A writer with a pitch talks to an editor about a hero, and they agree that the character can sell the series. All the writer and his artist have to do is think of something for his hero to do every issue. So they try, and succeed, and fail, and have so-so issues and good issues. Eventually, if the series isn’t canceled due to low sales, the writer runs out of ideas for stories and leaves. What will he leave behind if his only intentions have been to get stuff on the pages one issue after another? Next to nothing. He hasn’t been a storyteller.

Alexa wrote, “Brevoort compared her take to an Aaron Sorkin TV show— also appropriate given her admission to loving bantery dialogue.”

Having fun writing characters’ dialogue is probably one of the worst reasons a writer can have for wanting to do a series, because it’s based on the superficial similarities comics have to TV and movies. Yes, jokes can be fun, banter can be fun, but they’re no substitutes for plots, conflicts, and premises. There might be people who are willing to pay $3.99 a copy to read Spider-Man’s jokes and banter, but the numbers are dwarfed by the people who watch TV for the same thing.

SRS

“Much like Astonishing X-Men, this is perhaps a title which exists because it simply does, and the purpose will get locked in at a later date.”

…Or, not. ASTONISHING X-MEN has been chugging along for years and doesn’t seem the slightest bit interested in finding a purpose.

If Marvel insists on bloating their X-Men and Avengers franchises beyond capacity, they really need to ask the question of “why is this book here?”. At present, I think SECRET AVENGERS is a good example of a book that has a unique angle to it (black ops rather than conventional superheroing), and most of the characters aren’t, simultaneously, members of six other teams (Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Beast are cross-pollinating, but it doesn’t feel intrusive). Many of these other books are doing nothing more than just using a different combination of the characters that are in all the other books and having them do, pretty much, the same thing just for the sake of filling pages.

i’m actually looking forward to someone writing the avengers other than bendis, breath of fresh air and all. i am a wee bit confused about the current story being done in this book tho’. while i have read from marvel that this book takes place in current continuity of the MU, after reading the first few issues i get the vibe that this is a whole other continuity seperate from the main MU. does anyone know what’s going on?

I’d be okay with Avengers Assemble, Astonishing X-Men, Adjectiveless X-Men and similar titles not having any real purpose if they were priced at $2.99. $3.99 is too expensive a price to throw a title at the wall to just see if it sticks.

From the mind that brought you timeless classics like Venemma Multiversal