Joe Quesada out as Editor in Chief.

[taskmaster]

Axel Alonso will be taking over. Quesada will have a job similar to Geoff Johns job at DC, Chief Creative Officer or something like that.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=30169

[kguillou]

Good for Axel Alonso. Although, i'm surprised Brian Bendis hasnt gotten any sort of promotion, i would think he would get CCO or something.

[TheCorpulent1]

Maybe Bendis just doesn't want the job. He seems to like writing, judging by the sheer volume of material he pumps out.

Title's a bit misleading, by the way. I think you're gonna get some of the anti-Quesada folks' hopes up. He's still the boss, he's just got a new title and probably even more power within the company.

[kguillou]

Yeah Quesada's not going anywhere anytime soon, say what you will but he brought Marvel back from the brink of destruction..theyre not getting rid of him.

[Dread]

Brian Bendis has stated between the lines in many interviews that he doesn't want to be an editor because it would require more of a 9-5 office presence and he enjoys "working without my pants at home" in so many words as a writer. Thus, he isn't an editor solely because he does not desire the position, not because Marvel wouldn't offer. Thus, that is why he is something of a "mini-editor" - a writer whose every creation is sacred, every arc is gospel, and whose every storyline move is accepted as Insta-Canon (TM) line wide.

That said, I'm glad Joe Quesada is stepping down in that role, to a degree. He seems to be better off in that creative arena with media things than he is when he has a heavy hand in comics or is asked a direct question at CBR. To be fair, I'd argue Axel Alonso shovels slightly less BS on those CBR columns than Tom Brevoort has lately. Joe Q had the role for ten years and to his credit, was the guy who steered Marvel out of their red ink era and into where they are today. He has his debacles but he basically hands the title of EIC to Alonso in a better position than when Joe got it in 2000.

I wouldn't expect too many status quo changes; I wouldn't enter a betting pool on Spider-Man being remarried. On the other hand, maybe now M-Day can finally come to an end, and the X-Men can return to being a franchise with an actual purpose again? AGE OF X is a distraction as all alternate reality stories are. It may be enough for a chunk of 2011, but the same fundamental issues will remain and have since 2005.

As someone who writes comic news articles, I am somewhat annoyed that I spent hours doing them last night, and here BIG news happens a day later.

[runawayboulder]

Well, the title of the thread is a bit misleading. I though he was fired for something. He just got a promotion if anything. Yeah, I'm gonna take a wait and see attitude on this one. Alonso has been the editor behind some of my favorite books through the years, so I'm glad it's him and not Bendis. I get the feeling Bendis wants more to do with the movie/TV end of Marvel. He was a consultant on IM2 and Avengers I think.

This comes as no surprise after DC's shuffle at the top. But never the less, Thanks for f**king up Spider-Man while you were here Joe......

And I hope Axel reverses the Quesada rule about no smoking for characters like Wolverine, Gambit and Thing. It's a minor thing but it always bugged me.

[TheCorpulent1]

Axel Alonso was editing the Spider-Man comics right after the Clone Saga, I believe. I wonder if that should count as a black mark on his record. I rather liked that era, but I know it wasn't too popular.

[kguillou]

That no smoking rule made absolutely no sense, marvel comics are more violent than ever yet your telling me Wolverine cant have a cigar in his mouth as he disembowels someone???

[runawayboulder]

He wasn't there yet. He came on with ASM #27 and JMS was there at #30. So he was really mopping up the Ralph Macchio/Howard Mackie mess if anything.

[TheCorpulent1]

Oh, okay. Macchio was the editor for all that stuff, that's right.

Originally Posted by kguillou

That no smoking rule made absolutely no sense, marvel comics are more violent than ever yet your telling me Wolverine cant have a cigar in his mouth as he disembowels someone???

It's a personal thing for Quesada. It actually doesn't bother me a whole lot anyway. I automatically think of smokers as looking a bit vile, so I'm kind of glad Ben, at least, doesn't smoke anymore. Wolverine and Fury are vile in other ways, though, so I wouldn't mind seeing them start again.

[runawayboulder]

Originally Posted by kguillou

That no smoking rule made absolutely no sense, marvel comics are more violent than ever yet your telling me Wolverine cant have a cigar in his mouth as he disembowels someone???

I think Quesada's father died of lung cancer or something. That's unfortunate but he should keep his anti smoking tirade to himself. I hate how high and mighty people get about smoking. There was somebody I used to work with that would call my smoking filthy and disgusting only to find out they were a smoker for 25 yrs. I have since quit but I would never say that to someone else that's a smoker, it's none of my damn concern.

[Dread]

If running ASM during the Clone Saga was any demerit for an EIC job, Bob Harras wouldn't be EIC of DC Comics now.

[TheCorpulent1]

Originally Posted by runawayboulder

I think Quesada's father died of lung cancer or something. That's unfortunate but he should keep his anti smoking tirade to himself. I hate how high and mighty people get about smoking. There was somebody I used to work with that would call my smoking filthy and disgusting only to find out they were a smoker for 25 yrs. I have since quit but I would never say that to someone else that's a smoker, it's none of my damn concern.

I think it's gross because I have a vivid imagination and I automatically think of all that black gunk on smokers' teeth that I remember seeing in middle school health classes. I don't say anything to smokers, though. It's their teeth and lungs and all that. My only problem is if I'm stuck in close proximity to them for a long time, since I have asthma. Even then, though, so long as we're outside I just try to stand upwind of them and I'm good.

[runawayboulder]

Originally Posted by Dread

If running ASM during the Clone Saga was any demerit for an EIC job, Bob Harras wouldn't be EIC of DC Comics now.

Harras did one bad thing as EiC, a very big bad thing, with the Clone Saga. He also did some great stuff aside from Spider-Man like Avengers, Captain America, DD and Ka-Zar. That latter was pretty much the Nova of the 90's, the guy was very popular with fans and got a ongoing series from Waid and Kubert that was critically acclaimed.

[Spider-ManHero12]

Congrats to Axel Alonso.

[TheCorpulent1]

Harras wrote one of my favorite Avengers runs. All else is forgiven.

[Themanofbat]

Originally Posted by runawayboulder

Thanks for making Spider-Man a better book/character while you were here Joe......

Fixed...

[runawayboulder]

Originally Posted by Themanofbat

Fixed...

Hahahaha. Ease up off the crack buddy.

[Specter313]

Update: It looks like Tom Brevoort — Axel Alonso's fellow vice president, executive editor — is also getting a promotion, to senior vice president of publishing, as revealed by Joe Quesada on his Twitter account.

[Specter313]

Update: It looks like Tom Brevoort — Axel Alonso's fellow vice president, executive editor — is also getting a promotion, to senior vice president of publishing, as revealed by Joe Quesada on his Twitter account.

[fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by TheCorpulent1

Axel Alonso was editing the Spider-Man comics right after the Clone Saga, I believe. I wonder if that should count as a black mark on his record. I rather liked that era, but I know it wasn't too popular.

Uh, Alex Alonso was editing Spider-Man comics through the entire JMS era.

Originally Posted by TheCorpulent1

Maybe Bendis just doesn't want the job. He seems to like writing, judging by the sheer volume of material he pumps out.

Title's a bit misleading, by the way. I think you're gonna get some of the anti-Quesada folks' hopes up. He's still the boss, he's just got a new title and probably even more power within the company.

Reportedly, Alonso reports directly to the publisher.

Quesada may still have any amount of informal power / influence over the comics line but he certainly seems to be out of the formal chain of command.

[Dread]

Given Axel's promotion, it stood to reason that Brevoort would move on up, too.

[WolfCypher]

So will J-Q still have any say over how the Spidey books are handled?

[bored]

I'm not saying things will be sunshine and rainbows for Marvel fans now that Quesada isn't EIC anymore, but at least Alonso's promotion gives some chance for a better creative direction.

[WolfCypher]

So will J-Q still have any say over how the Spidey books are handled?