Spider-girl Returns

[roach]

Rejoice...

http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76665

 

[arachnid-guy]

Hahahah

THOSE guys....

YEAH! YAHOO...

This is the best news since...well, Spider-Man...erm yeah..

 

[The_Vision]

Thats good news

 

[roach]

As readers of Spider-Girl #100 are learning today, the last issue of the hereoine’s series is just that – only the last issue of that particular series.

As has become the familiar refrain - Spider-Girl lives again - and this time, it’s a little more stable than before.

In October, Marvel will launch The Amazing Spider-Girl #1 by Tom DeFalco, Ron Frenz and Sal Buscema. And – for fans of the character who’ve felt Marvel may have dropped the ball along the line, or never really worked to promote the series, the publisher is rolling out the marketing wagon. Case(s) in point:

- The Spider-Girl Saga #0 which catches readers old and new – up on the character and her world, will come out two weeks before the new #1 issue.

- Ed McGuiness will provide a variant cover for #1.

- Posters featuring the cover to #1 are being readied for promotion.

- The Amazing Spider-Girl postcards are being prepared.

We caught up with Spider-Girl writer Tom DeFalco to get his take on this new lease on life for May Parker.

“This is truly the little comic that could,” DeFalco said. “I’ve told the same story time and again, mainly because I can’t believe it myself – this was supposed to be a one-shot character, one issue of What If?. When Ron Frenz and I did that issue years ago, we realized the character was fun, and thought we might do a sequel down the road. By the time the issue with May in it came out, we had already moved to other projects, and then, when Marvel asked us to do a comic series with her, I didn’t think it would work. I figured we’d get twelve issues, and we did that, and then we got the call to do six more…and basically, we did six more all the way up to #100.”

Though the cynics may believe the whole “end with #100 only to restart with a new #1” was a plan calculated and implemented by Marvel marketing, DeFalco joked that he certainly would’ve enjoyed if the cynics had come by his house to provide some comfort when Marvel informed the Spider-Girl team the series was cancelled.

“We were told it was going to be cancelled,” DeFalco said. “We were told it may come back, but we weren’t told that Marvel would be canceling it, only to start it up again. To me, though – I’ve been in this business for so long – it’s never official until they give you the actual assignment. Before that, it’s all talk. I’m not sure I fully believe that the book is even coming back this time [laughs].

“But going back a couple of months ago, they told us that, bottom line, these books are selling terrific in the mass market. We’re reaching an audience that everybody thought and still tend to think that comic books cannot reach anymore. But we’re doing it, and we’re doing it with numbers that are quite significant. That’s why Marvel continues to move ahead with Spider-Girl. Today, when people look at numbers, they tend to look at the Direct Market numbers, and judge form there, but that’s not the whole market anymore – lucky for us.

“When they had newsstands sales, Ron and I were routinely at the top of those sales, and we could be there again if we had a book that was actually gong on the newsstand, which, I think with the relaunch, this book will be on the newsstand again.”

As for some changes and tweaks when the series starts, Defalco noted that May Parker will have longer hair when things pick up in October, and that Frenz has adjusted the costume somewhat to make it a touch sleeker. “He’s been tweaking it all along to make it work better on a visual level,” DeFalco said. “And he’s used the time off to really go to town. He did some really wild designs, and then came back to something that most readers won’t even notice the change, but artists will.”

According to the writer, as he sees it, there will be about a two-month gap, storywise, between the end of Spider-Girl and Last Planet Standing and Amazing Spider-Girl #1, “although we’re not going to play that up.

“There will be a few love interests for May,” DeFalco added. “She’s actually going to spend some time being a teenage girl, with all the attendant heartaches that brings. One of the things we’re doing though, is that we’re approaching the first issue of Amazing Spider-Girl as if there had never been a Spider-Girl series – we’re hoping to bring in as many readers as we can with this. If you’re one of the ones who’s told us that you’ve heard great things about the series but never picked it up – here’s your chance. You may just discover that you like it. We approach comics in a very different way than a lot of comic creators, and feel that the readers’ time is very precious to us, so we don’t want to waste it. We don’t believe in decompression.”

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Frenz must really hate costumes where something's touching the character's armpit. He "streamlined" Thor's costume to have much wider arm-holes a long time ago, just like he's done to Spider-Girl's costume now. Weird.

Good to know SG will be back, though. I like the addition of "The Amazing," too. Hopefully DeFalco can pull out all the stops and provide even better stories than he's been doing.

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Damn straight. No decompression. Old school style.

You CAN'T call yerself a Spidey fan and NOT read this.

 

[hippy fascist]

oing on my pull list first thing tomorrow ( I shop at forbidden planet, adding the amazing will prob confuse them!), anyone got any idea of when it starts up again? Got into this book quite late so want to hit gound running on the new one

 

[Darthphere]

Cool.

 

[Varient]

Rejoice...

http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76665

I'm happy for you.

 

[Doc Destruction]

I'm so freaking happy. Not only was #100 GREAT, with some seriously good action in pure Spidey style (webbing Hobgoblin's finger blaster, causing it to blow up on him), but the full page ad for ASG in the back.

Truly a great comic book day for me.

 

[hippy fascist]

Why do I have to live in crappy old england!?!?! We get our comic books a day after you guys....but then again I guess that's the trade off you make for not being able to buy a wide variety of guns with your groceries, guess life's not THAT bad for me

 

[Citizen_Kaine]

Why do I have to live in crappy old england!?!?! We get our comic books a day after you guys....but then again I guess that's the trade off you make for not being able to buy a wide variety of guns with your groceries, guess life's not THAT bad for me

Move to Canada, best of both worlds. (Plus you get extremely shoddy free health care )

Although I do miss the good old days when I could grab a Magnum while picking up the eggs

 

[3dman27]

Damn straight. No decompression. Old school style.

You CAN'T call yerself a Spidey fan and NOT read this.

no decompression? old school style THANK GOD FOR THAT

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

Move to Canada, best of both worlds. (Plus you get extremely shoddy free health care )

Although I do miss the good old days when I could grab a Magnum while picking up the eggs

And have to deal with French Canadians? Hardly.


But I AM glad to hear about the return of Spider-Girl.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

It's good to see Mayday will be back afterall. The writing is great, reminds me of the old school '80s stories during the time when Spidey was dealing with the Hobgoblin.

 

[Bullseye]

I was expecting they would anew Spider-Girl in another title.

 

[Cyclops]

An Ed McGuinness Spider-Girl?

So how thick will her biceps be? Three feet wide?

 

[SpideyInATree]

Sweet! The Amazing Spider-Girl!

Gotta admit, there were a couple posters over in the Spider-Girl thread who pretty much called it on the new name of the title. Kudos to those guys. And kudos to Tom Defalco for hanging in there with this title.

I haven't read # 100 yet but saw the big page with the rebooted cover!

I'll get a couple months off of Spider-Girl, which will be tough, but I'm definitely looking forward to what is to come. And I hope that Mr. Defalco kicks it up a notch for the new series.

And, man, # 100 is FREAKIN' HUGE! Now THAT'S how you make a comic book worth 3.99 fellas! This thing is packed with crap, man! Gotta give props to Marvel, for once, for this little treat.

 

[Artistsean]

I just got into Spider-Girl, just today.
Can anyone suggest any good issues to get?
Any ones with especially good art? Or maybe some very important storylines that will help me get to know the characters?

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Dude, get them all. It gets a little weak in two points but that's 'cause Tom hadda whip up stories after essentially endin' th' series. And th' art is consistent throughout; was only two artists.

 

[Marcdachamp]

Spider-Girl? Relaunched? With a marketing campaign? It's like Joey Q actually listened to me...

Could this day be any better? Oh wait... let's check out the letter's page...hey! That's me!

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Ya got printed? Shway.

 

[Roughneck]

Bull ****.


This is Bogus how Fans keep this alive but Thing get's cancelled.

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Well, SG fans had about 10 issues of notice fer th' cancellation. Thing fans had what, 2 or 3? Not nearly enough time to launch th' kinda campaign SG got. At least they're givin' Slott another series. Hopefully they put some weight behind it.

 

[Doc Destruction]

Bull ****.


This is Bogus how Fans keep this alive but Thing get's cancelled.

Hey, at least we saved one of them.