Marvel Comics General

So why did it get cancelled?

I don't really know myself, but I do know that the 'Marvel Hates X-Men&FF' crowd are going to have a field day with this.

According to Brevoort, it's a licensing thing.

More realistically, Marvel's merchandising division doesn't want to promote characters owned by Fox. That's not a secret. Brevoort even acknowledged it a while ago.

What needs to be remembered is that the merchandising division is separate from the publishing division. The people convinced this means Marvel won't publish Fantastic Four any more, or that they're trying to ruin the X-Men, are still idiots.

Licensing is very strange sometimes.

Actually, wait. Brevoort's post was about the Secret Wars t-shirt removing the X-Men and Fantastic Four, not the new thing.

Apparently Captain Monica was removed too?

I assume if they can't put their likeness on a t-shirt, they can't make statues out of them.

I also assume they removed Monica Rambeau Captain Marvel so that people wouldn't confuse her for Carol Danvers Captain Marvel.

Le sigh. I really hope Marvel and FOX work things out, this is not beneficial for anyone. Not the studios and definitely not the fans. I mean, the F4 reboot apparently drove Josh Trank insane.

Korvac Saga #1 preview.

Hee◊.

It is such a crime that Monica was created in the 80's. If she had been created today and given mostly the same character arc and treatment, she'd be so much more popular.

She's still around, though. What's she going by now?

Spectrum, last I checked.

She's in the Mighty Avengers. She gave Reed Richards the biz. She can blow up planets maybe?

Edit: Actually, here's the real tragedy of Monica Rambeau: She's had her codename stolen by Genis-Vell twice. He took Captain Marvel from her and when she changed to Photon, he took that too.

edited 27th May '15 10:09:24 AM by Bocaj

To be fair, having him do it the second time, by accident, was kinda funny. It's just a shame that it officially cast her into the "too many codenames for anyone to keep straight" camp.

Also, can Genis-Vell come back as a villain? I think a guy who blew up the universe over his daddy issues is pretty solid archnemesis material.

edited 27th May '15 10:14:15 AM by TheEvilDrBolty

I prefer to think of her as Monica Rambeau.

I'd like to see Genis-Vell take that from her.

"Hello again, Monica"
"Genis-Vell!"
"Please, call me by my new name... Spectrum."
"... Oh you son of a bitch"

Maybe if we all eat our vegetables Marvel gives her a Solo Series after EW written by Ewing ?

Here's hoping; Ewing seems like he might be pushing for exactly that.

So I just learned ''this'' was a thing.

Yeah, those old comics had all kinds of weird—

What do you mean, 2009?! *sigh* Goddammit, guys.

I remember reading that, wasn't that bad actually.

Unfortunately, Marvel sometimes has a misstep between their marketing/covers and the actual content. The content would seem to be good and inoffensive, while the covers...

...well, have you see the covers for the Emma Frost series? Yeah. The actual story was about her as a teenager.

edited 27th May '15 10:59:15 AM by alliterator

I'd be excited that Marvel seems to have a sorta-kinda-not-really equivalent to the Birds of Prey except Divas is a terrible name for a team.

And also they're not even a team.

Friendship is nice too though.

edited 27th May '15 11:59:47 AM by Bocaj

Actually, their equivalent of Birds of Prey was Fearless Defenders. And it was awesome, but also cancelled.

Alas

maybe A-Force will fare better.