Please Help support the MC-2 Universe...

[CMBMOOL]

As you all may known already, Amazing Spider-girl is going to end at issue # 30 within the start of next year. If that happens, then so does the end of the MC-2 Universe and it heroes and villains.

Now, I know that alot of you don't really care about Spider-girl or the other MC-2 unvierse heroes and villians, but please just hear me out for a mintue about what the MC-2 Universe is and how it differs from other worlds....

You see, the MC-2 Universe is a world where the term Legacy is used alot. As the new heroes and villians of that world are often related to the Marvel heroes and villains of yesterday.

It gives us a classic feeling within their stories that hasn't been seen in a long time, from my opinion at least.

I know you all may think that Tom Defalco, creator of Spider-girl and the MC-2 Universe, stale and old within the plot lines and current events. However, I don't think so, becuase I felt that he has a good idea on how he sees the future of Marvel comic and it heroes.

Take for example.....Avengers-Next, despite their differences in origins and ways of fighting crime, they still get the job done.

Also, they show a good example of the term Legacy as some of them show some relations to other Marvel characters.

So I ask you...If you all want a comic book that isn't dark and conflicted, a comic book that is just old-fashion but for a new generation, a comic book that doesn't have the main character reverted back in time.

Then please Support the variety of titles within the MC-2 Universe by buying some of them and try to help save a comic book series.

[Jamie]

Then please Support the variety of titles within the MC-2 Universe and try to help save a comic book series.

You don't actually indicate any way in which you want people to do this. Buy the series?

[Jake V]

your argument is unconvincing. Besides, how would we support something that will not exist in a few months? It's not like Spider-Girl can be saved.

[Cthulhudrew]

your argument is unconvincing. Besides, how would we support something that will not exist in a few months? It's not like Spider-Girl can be saved.

You're kidding, right?

[The Sword Is Drawn]

your argument is unconvincing. Besides, how would we support something that will not exist in a few months? It's not like Spider-Girl can be saved.

You're kidding? Spider-girl is the only book I can think of where a cancellation announcement can also be a call to arms for new readers.

[matthewaos]

I think that I read in Crawlspace that DeFlaco said that if the sales increase by 1000 the book will not end.

[Umbra]

I will support, when does the next issue drop?

[BugsySig]

there is the rumor that May-day will be making a regular appearance in Spider-Man Family as a back-up...so all hope is not lost...and with Spider-Girl, you never know what will happen...this could just lead into "Spectacular Spider-Girl #1"

[CMBMOOL]

You don't actually indicate any way in which you want people to do this. Buy the series?
Just did. :biggrin:

[CMBMOOL]

I will support, when does the next issue drop?
The second week of Nov, but try to collect #25 as it's the start of the BNMayday arc takeover.

[esc0]

i like dark and conflicted and hate old-fashion comics. The need to put tons of thought balloons and other unnecessary clutter is annoying and boring.

But good luck anyways

[The Sword Is Drawn]

I hate to say it, but a lot of my problems with the MC-2 Universe is very simple - it's 90s Marvel Comics vibe seems very bland. I really want to like it, because I like the concept of a plausible progression of legacy characters, but it feel stiff and uninspiring - just as much of the MU titles did to me, before the very late 90s.

The characters, in many cases, are sound. But it's just not written and thought through in a manner which grabs attention or pushes the envelope. Which is a shame. This is the perfect place for some very dynamic storytelling, without effecting the main MU. But it's not happening.

[Guest_1001]

You're kidding? Spider-girl is the only book I can think of where a cancellation announcement can also be a call to arms for new readers.

Ah, but that could work against it; there's no point in keeping a book going if people only start buying it after a cancellation announcement.

Although I agree with many of the problems you noted with the MC-2 universe. To me, it just seems like 616-lite. Their twists and variations on regular characters -- or new ones, nieces and nephews of familiar characters -- seems very cliched. I'll admit, I am more of a fan of the "dark and conflicted" books of the mainstream universe, perhaps so much so that any traditional superhero books seem too "superhero". While I assume the MC-2 universe does a good job at emulating that style, the same thing that makes it unique could be the same thing that's holding it back.

I'm not just saying this as some outsider though, thinking I know about a universe but having never read a word; I read Amazing Spider-Girl for a while but dropped it and there were a few Avengers-Next digital comics on Marvel.com.

[The Sword Is Drawn]

I think that a lot of the MC-2 properties would be the perfect place to try out newer writers and artists. There is a fully established universe here, ripe for the picking, with the plenty chances to do some more out-there stories. Who knows, maybe we'll see some of those, some day. But until then I don't think the line has much of a future long-term.

I own large parts of the first wave of MC-2 titles, and I think that even in their more recent incarnations they just don't seem to be able to offer anything much which hasn't been done before. They're very much stuck in a rut, and need something to shake them up, but I get the feeling that we're not going to see that happening.

A great shame, in many respects.

[CMBMOOL]

Anyone else want to try to sign-up and save a postive Alternate future for once ? :frown:

[CMBMOOL]

Bump with a purpose....

I asked Deflaco over at the Spider-girl threads, if there was a chance for an X-people mini series spin-out of the recent arc of Spider-girl, here is what he responded with...

http://www.comicboards.com/app/show.php?rpy=spidergirl-2008102113420882

With the future of SPIDER-GIRL in jeopardy, I don't think Marvel will want to publish any other MC-2-related limited series.

So that's it, if ASG goes, then so does the rest of the MC-2 Universe. :frown:

I have to admit it does seem hopeless for the MC-2 Universe to gain any new fans now, that even I'm considering going back to ASM when Spider-girl is over.:frown:

It will take a miracle to save the book and the alternate universe it lives in now. :frown:

[ZeoVGM]

I understand the disappointment by the fans, but simply put, the MC-2 Universe isn't good.

The characters are bland, the writing is very poor, and people simply are not interested in it.

It's a shame that ASG just starting getting a lot better, but for 20 issues, we had to deal with May's dumb relationship, her acting like a beaten housewife to her boyfriend, the horrifically bad mutant plot, the lame Hobgoblin plot...

It was just too little, too late. It's a shame, because I love May as a character. They could have done some great stuff with her.

But the book was mediocre, and in the end, that's the sole reason it was cancelled. :\