GwenPool To Get An On Going Series

[Webhead2006]

Well this didnt take long to happen:
http://comicbook.com/2015/12/22/marvel-launching-gwenpool-series-in-april/

Marvel Launching Gwenpool Series In April

• Jamie Lovett
• - 12/22/2015

(Photo: Marvel Entertainment)

Marvel Comics has will launch an ongoing Gwenpool series, with writer Christopher Hastings and artist Gurihiru, this April.


Gwenpool – a.k.a. Gwendoline Pool – began life as a Spider-Gwen/Deadpool mashup character on a Chris Bachalo variant cover, which became popular among cosplayers. She was introduced into the Marvel Universe proper in the Gweenpool Christmas Special, where she partied with the likes of Hellcat, Howard the Duck, and She-Hulk, and her story continues in 10-page back up stories in issues of Howard the Duck before her own headlining book takes off.


Speaking to EW, Hastings promises that there is a real story to be told with the character, despite her unorthodox genesis.


“I think it’s just so much fun, and we are telling an interesting story here,” Hastings says. “We’re not just making up a reason to buy comics based on a popular cosplay character. There’s so much to explore with this new character and all of her weird little quirks and things like that and I really had to make some very hard decisions in what we could tell in those very short little 10-page comics. It was super fun exercise in trying to make something entertaining in a short little period of space. I’m really excited to have the space here to really let it breathe a little bit. “


Look for Gweenpool #1 in April 2016.

 

[CaptainWagner]

Yeah, nope, I can't even defend this one

 

[Webhead2006]

I still don't get this character myself. So she is an alternate dimension gwen who is deadpool. Where she from and how she get her power and what not.

 

[BoredGuy]

so f***in' stupid

 

[KevanG]

I get Spider-Gwen as a new version of existing characters that has an interesting premise. I don't get this.

 

[Hypestyle]

So, did Marvel proper invent Gwenpool? I see the interview text where she's referenced as a popular cosplay character.. If that's the case, I hope a lawsuit isn't coming--

 

[KevanG]

I think suing over a cosplay you did of two existing characters that don't belong to you would fail pretty quick. Not to mention trying to trademark it and prove it was your original design in the first place.

 

[KevanG]

After re-reading the article it looks like Marvel made it first and people started cosplaying.

 

[mightiest_mortal]

Rather than pat themselves on the back that a character who'd only been on one cover can get so much interest from the community, maybe they should ask themselves wtf has gone wrong with the rest of their comics that so many people prefer a character that's only ever been in one issue to those that have decades of stories behind them.

I've been a huge Marvel fan for as long as I can remember but they've just become a complete mess now. Total cluster****. It's just bad event after bad event, continual self-destruction of all of its lines and dumb publicity stunts to get attention. Some times I feel the comic lines are only there to help drum up publicity for the movies; it's pretty clear that telling great stories is far down on their priority list these days.

 

[BoredGuy]

Rather than pat themselves on the back that a character who'd only been on one cover can get so much interest from the community, maybe they should ask themselves wtf has gone wrong with the rest of their comics that so many people prefer a character that's only ever been in one issue to those that have decades of stories behind them.

I've been a huge Marvel fan for as long as I can remember but they've just become a complete mess now. Total cluster****. It's just bad event after bad event, continual self-destruction of all of its lines and dumb publicity stunts to get attention. Some times I feel the comic lines are only there to help drum up publicity for the movies; it's pretty clear that telling great stories is far down on their priority list these days.

agreed, hopefully the movies don't take anything from the modern comics
or the MCU will nuke the fridge as hard as the comics have

the movies at this point have far surpassed their print counterparts

 

[CaptainWagner]

Rather than pat themselves on the back that a character who'd only been on one cover can get so much interest from the community, maybe they should ask themselves wtf has gone wrong with the rest of their comics that so many people prefer a character that's only ever been in one issue to those that have decades of stories behind them.

I've been a huge Marvel fan for as long as I can remember but they've just become a complete mess now. Total cluster****. It's just bad event after bad event, continual self-destruction of all of its lines and dumb publicity stunts to get attention. Some times I feel the comic lines are only there to help drum up publicity for the movies; it's pretty clear that telling great stories is far down on their priority list these days.

See, I'm fine with people not picking up the new books because they aren't interested, or simply don't care for the story. I don't read Thor, because I've never been interested in the character. I don't read All-New X-Men, because I hate that the O5 are still stuck in the modern world for no good reason, taking away focus for the young mutants like Idie, Quenton, Broo, and others who should be starring in that book.

However, it really ticks me off when people make the jump from "I don't like this book" to "This book is crap, Marvel is crap these days, They don't know what they're doing, etc..." Because Marvel is doing great these days, with outstanding writing and artists, taking their characters in fascinating new directions. To go around throwing blanket statements about these critically lauded books and claiming they "Don't care about telling good stories" is a load of heaping humbug. So please, learn to separate your subjective and objective arguments, and then we can all get along! t:

 

[BoredGuy]

well I think he was saying he feels all of Marvel's books are crap, not just one book, thus, in his opinion, Marvel Comics as a whole is crap right now
can't say I disagree at the moment

 

[Webhead2006]

ya there is plently of characters and events i dont care for myself from the past few yrs. But to say all marvel comics suck is so not right. There is alots of good things for variety of people. If it wasnt marvel wouldnt have books selling in the top 10 and top 5 books every month. And be making more money then dc i believe at the moment.

But in the case of this gwen i do see it as something we didnt need. Gwen spider-woman has a better story and makes sense. This gwen is just not needed but hey.

 

[CaptainWagner]

well I think he was saying he feels all of Marvel's books are crap, not just one book, thus, in his opinion, Marvel Comics as a whole is crap right now
can't say I disagree at the moment

That was my point. He was saying all of Marvel comics was "crap" based not on the actual quality of writing and art, but instead based on what he personally liked or disliked story-wise. If you don't like, say, Jane Foster being Thor, that's fine , come out and say it. But when the book has consistently earned widespread critical acclaim, just accept that it's a good book you simply aren't interested in or be prepared to give objective reasons for why you disagree.

 

[BoredGuy]

if you don't like a comic "story-wise", that means you feel the writing is of poor quality

that would be my main issue with the comics right now, it's all hackish dialogue, mis-characterization, and pr driven plotting
add in cheesy 90's throwback art and try-too-hard costume designs, and the slate is not pretty right now

 

[Spider-Aziz]

When news about this version of Gwen was new, we made a few jokes on Spider-Man Crawlspace comments discussing her, and what possible future versions may be of her:
Gwens of the Galaxy
Iron Gwen
Gwenwolf by Night
Captain Gwen
The Gwen Avengers
X-Gwen
Fantastic Gwen
Gwen Knight/Moon Gwen
Gwen Fist
Power Gwen: Gwen for Hire
Gwen-Thing
Nova Gwen

 

[CaptainWagner]

if you don't like a comic "story-wise", that means you feel the writing is of poor quality

that would be my main issue with the comics right now, it's all hackish dialogue, mis-characterization, and pr driven plotting
add in cheesy 90's throwback art and try-too-hard costume designs, and the slate is not pretty right now

That's not the way I took it. To me, saying you avoid a comic because of the story means, for example, you don't like that Doc Ock took over Peter's mind, therefore you will not read Superior Spider-man.

Writing, on the other hand, is different. Which authors and/or books would you specifically point out that have bad writing?

 

[BoredGuy]

That's not the way I took it. To me, saying you avoid a comic because of the story means, for example, you don't like that Doc Ock took over Peter's mind, therefore you will not read Superior Spider-man.

Writing, on the other hand, is different. Which authors and/or books would you specifically point out that have bad writing?

Well I generally avoid reading bad writing as much as possible, but some of the Steven King books I've read were pretty bad, any Twilight or 50 Shades excerpts I've seen were laughably horrendous, and in the comic world, I'd say Daniel Way or any recent Frank Miller stuff is straight up s****y writing

but to go back to your point, let's take Bendis, I don't know if you could call him bad per se, but I hate his style, his quippy dialogue and lackluster climaxes annoy the hell outta me. So when I read he was writing an X-men book about the time-displaced original 5, I said "f*** that, not buying it" So that's an instance where it was the plot that made me question the story, but then seeing who the writer was and knowing how he usually executes pushed me into the "not buying it" camp.

I dont even know what my point was anymore
i guess basically, if someone hates all of Marvel's plots, and doesn't have faith in any of its writers to execute those bad ideas in graceful ways, it's well within their right to say 'Marvel comics suck right now', regardless of whether or not you can apply some metric of "good" writing to the stories being told.