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I always thought Spider-Girl was a premise that would work much better in cartoon form ala Batman Beyond. There must be an untapped market of young girls looking for a superheroine to get into. Will it take “Mayday” as long as Static to get the Kids WB treatment?

I remember when the book started. I was reviewing comics at the time and I probably gave it a 5 out of 10. I didn’t think it would last a year!

No way! I’ve been reading Spider-Girl on-and-off since the first issue, and have been following it monthly since about issue 54. It’s a great title with solid writing and great artwork. This is a real damn shame. I don’t get why it never found an audience, since, for the last few years, it’s been the closest to an old-school Spider-Man title Marvel’s put out. I hope it continues to show up in some form or another. Back-ups in Spider-Man family would be nice, the odd limited series better.

Cripes. This is a real kick in the head.

Have a good day.
John Cage

I hope there will be a limited series or two in the future

I like the MC2 universe

Weird. Usually once a book hits the hundred issue mark it’s pretty much safe.

This is eaxactly what I was talking about on my blog. I appreciate the work you put into this and I look forward to reading more.

Is it sad, really? We brought this thing back to life a few times. It had a longer run than Marvel wanted, and that’s enough for me.

I obviously don’t know the reason why this wasn’t more popular, but I felt that the stories weren’t as daring as they could be. It didn’t explore the future Marvel universe enough, and it didn’t stray enough from creating legacy characters. I read both runs of Spider-girl, but it should have been better. I hope that in the future, the title is resurrected, or another Spider-girl arises in the Marvel U.

Is “More Traffic” a spam bot? That comment doesn’t make any sense.

@ Anthony Cheng…
It’s not an untapped market. It is a very tiny niche market (because the publishers treat it that way). My daughter will be crushed by this news, first Minx and now Spider-Girl… her favorites are gone. The only reason she knows about these is by me managing a LCS, otherwise she would know nothing, because these books are not marketed at their target audience… where are the banners on LPS.com and other girl frequented websites?…. where are the ads in the tiny booper mags? They don’t exist and then the consumer says things like there is an untapped market. The market has been tapped, no one cares to turn on the faucet.

“Alas, poor Spider-girl, I hardly knew her Horatio …”
“She was of infinite amusement …”

To all things, an ending must come.

It’s one of the few Marvel Titles I bothered to read mostly because it WASN’T tied into the “Universe”.
No waste of time & money ultra crossovers would bother that title, and IMO, that was one of the great attributes for reading the comic.

Strange how every Spider-book is better than Amazing nowadays.

NOOOOO!!! i just added it to my pull list!

I love this series.

Quesada’s masterplan to destroy all that was good about Spider-Man is complete

At this point, I won’t believe it’s cancelled… pretty much ever. This is what, the fifth time? As far as reaching a wider market, I know the digests were being sold by Scholastic (as are a lot of Marvel’s All Ages stuff), so that’s something. Not sure if they got in to kids hands, but I’ve seen them in a couple class rooms.

“Quesada’s masterplan to destroy all that was good about Spider-Man is complete.”

I would love to see his powerpoint of that plan. I bet that’s what got him hired. A plan to destroy the goodness of his company’s biggest franchise character. In powerpoint.

I wonder if it would have sold better if Marvel slapped a “Marvel Adventures” title over it? Supposedly the Marvel Adventure line sells fairly well and I always thought they were bo

“both aimed at the same crowd.” Ack.

“DeFalco says that THEIR is talk …”? Oh, Dread Lord and Master, whatever shall we do with you?

*sigh* Love that book. Best Spider-Title out there today — and over the past several years too. IMO, of course.

What happened?
Did Mephisto get worried that people would remember his deal because of this book?

Well, that means I will be down to two Marvel books a month. And as I only buy a few DC comics, I will soon have very few superhero comic books. Oh, well, more money for my dvd collection.

i really have disliked Tom DeFalco’s writing on everything that he’s ever done. i’m happy that he’s not writing one more book, becasue i think he’s writing is that bad. i wouldn’t mind having Spider-Girl brought back without him writing.

As someone who’s never read it I’d say it’s quite an accomplishment that such a low selling book ended up lasting #130 issues in today’s marketplace.

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Yeah, but he’s a robot spammer thingy – how can any of us compete with that?

Yeah, “nice” is what I’d call continuing on only in a criminally overpriced tome of disorganized reprints mixed with half-assed fill-in material.

I’ve been buying two copies of this for three years now, one for me and one for my early-teen niece. I sure as hell won’t be paying twice as much for something Joey & Chumps view merely as part and parcel of their misguided BND empire.

I’m really torn on this.

On the one hand, I really like the character of May Parker, the whole Spider-Man Legacy, and the general themes of the book.

On the other, I just couldn’t get into DeFalco’s writing and Buscema’s art. For a book that was supposed to be young, fun, and hip, the guys behind it were pretty much the opposite of it.

I would love to see them relaunch Spider-Girl, or give it one last chance, but with a different creative team. I think a Paul Tobin, a Coleen Coover, a Terry Moore, or a Fred Van Lente would be awesome on that book, and inject it with the fun youthful energy it needs, without sacrificing the old school feel that makes it special.

But that’s just me.

I bought that series since the original What If issue. I’m really sad to see it go and hope that DeFalco and pals can fit a backup series in the Family book.

Who knows? It’s not unheard of (albeit quite difficult nowadays) that a backup series can rise and take over the main book. Hope springs eternal!

Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

Aw man, that sucks. I jumped aboard after the One More Day debacle, dropping ASM for it. I came in mid-storyline and found myself entirely engrossed in the story and characters. It quickly became one of my favorite books each month. At least there’s a bunch of back issues I haven’t read yet.

So much for voting with my wallet…

You guys do realize it was canceled because, like, zero people were buying it, right? It’s almost happened several times before BND. Joe has nothing to do with this.

Well, of course Spider-Girl has to be cancelled! Don’t you see? Having a daughter makes Peter Parker OLD! Nobody would read a series where Peter has a child! Right?

(And that has to be the snarkiest post I’ve made in a while. )

“Dalarsco
October 13, 2008 at 12:39 pm

Weird. Usually once a book hits the hundred issue mark it’s pretty much safe.”

Not necessarily. Tell that to:

Power Man & Iron Fist
Marvel Team Up, vol 1
Batman: LOTDK
Brave & the Bold vol 1
Peter Parker: Spectacular Spiderman etc

I’ve never read the book, so I couldn’t judge it, but I really LOATHE Tom deFalco’s writing in other books that I did read (such as Fantastic Four and Thor in the 1990s), and I can’t really imagine anyone getting so engrossed by deFalco’s writing.

Now, “The Brave and the Bold” didn’t get cancelled; it got turned into “Batman and the Outsiders”. THAT got cancelled. And does anybody remember “Kickers, Inc.”, that DeFalco wrote? Oh, God, the suck.

Amazing Spider-Girl was one of a handful of Marvel books I was still buying. I found it to be the last bastion of old school Marvel serial storytelling, and one of very few books that actually tried to introduce and develop supporting characters. Losing it means that there really isn’t any book being published that harkens back to the old Stan Lee model.

I’d prefer to see the book survive, but I’ll be content if the series survives in Spider-Man Family. As for relaunching with a different writer? No thanks. Although some talented possibilities were mentioned, I just can’t see another writer handling the series and retaining the features I appreciate.

I was also a lifelong DeFalco hater, considering his earliest work (especially his Marvel Two-In-One run) some of the worst comics writing of all time, but I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. As for the art, the person earlier who cited Buscema as a problem is insane. His presence is what made me greatly prefer this to the Marvel Adventures book’s group style when it comes to younger-reader-friendly Marvel output.

This book needed to be pushed heavier on the newstand and other outlets outside the comic shops, where Continuity is King and regular comic readers have been trained to read slow moving books. It needed to be in places where anyone could see it, especially little kids that convince their parents to buy them stuff (is there some unwritten law that comics can’t be sold in toy stores?).

I read Spider-Girl from issue 1 of the first series until issue 6 of Amazing (dropping the book for financial reasons) and enjoyed every issue. DeFalco made the title easily accessible to anyone picking it up for the first time, an art in and of itself that seems lost on most Marvel titles.

It is a shame that a book that was fun to read is being cancelled because it can’t support a monthly schedule. Marvel could make money off Spider-Girl if they simply started thinking “outside the box” of comic shops and monthly titles, but that were require some sort of intelligence.

In his defense, Tom DeFalco had a great run on Amazing Spider-Man in the good ‘ol days. Long time readers have a great appreciation for him. I hope he does well elsewhere at Marvel.

spider girl didn’t end at issue 30 i have issue 58, and 5