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Huh. Odd. You'd think there'd be a lot of them given they're the primary action girls of the Thor franchise.

Well, if we're asking questions about random team-ups:

Has Iron Man ever team up with any X-Men (who were actually X-Men at the time rather than joining the Avengers like Hank or Logan)?

It just randomly popped in my head and I thought why not ask?

The Avengers and the X-Men teamed up to fight Magneto.

It was around the time Magneto made Wanda sexy dance.

...

Being reminded of that makes me want to go back on my feelings that retconning the twins out of being mutants was a mistake.

Dammit Erik!

Future Foundation just got canned per Bleeding Cool at issue 5. Jeremy Whitley states he has no other Marvel projects on Twitter.

Turns out, the book didn't meet the numbers Marvel wanted.

I can hear D&C jerking off from here...

DAMMIT, I was really liking that one too. Maybe trade sales will save it, ala Unstoppable Wasp.

I looked up some of Whitley's other stuff. Apparently this isn't the first time he had a series cancelled after just five issues. Earlier this year he was writing a Rainbow Brite series that got canned after that same number.

So the actual tweet from the horse's mouth: https://twitter.com/jrome58/status/1172970529894146049

I can't believe Future Foundation got canned.

I gave that a trope page!

...It was only five issues. At least give it a year before giving it the can.

Just when they brought back Rikki after *checks Onsluaght Unleashed release date* 8 years in limbo (jesus, I'm old). I was looking forward to see a reunion with Anya, and, seeing how Whitley reblogged/retweeted my stuff about a reunion, seems that so did him :(

A shame that he won't be able to do it anywhere else at the moment and I doubt anyone will pick that up since she's so a obscure character.

Future Foundation doesn't even constitute a six issue trade paperback. That's insane. The trade paperback market is why Iceman and Unstoppable Wasp found success. Moon Girl's fanbase's major roots came from this market.

Yeah, I actually prefer the trade format to individual issues generally. and I can’t be alone.

Trade paperbacks & omnibuses are less of a hassle to collect.

I've long abandoned single issues in favor of just getting them all at once.

I only interact with comics through trade paperbacks. Its bonkers to me that they're so undervalued in the comic book industry's internal metrics.

For a market that literally bent the knee towards the trade paperback, I'm surprised it devalues it. The 21st century saw decompression become apparent when stories that could be done in two issues were stretched out to six. I'll never forgive Ultimate Power for being way too long.

Also, this month's sales are up. https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/09/15/top-100-most-ordered-comics-graphic-novels-august-2019/

Future Foundation is 40. Fantastic Four is 33.

I can't believe Slott's decompressed pile of garbage is selling better than Whitley's slow but good comic.

Fantastic Four has flagship power

I know, but I'm still seething with anger.

So, British Prime Minister and walking punchline, Boris Johnson invoked the Hulk today invoked the Hulk in the most hilarious (and also terrifying) way.

Little wonder how superheroes are seen as childish at best, outright promoting of horrible morals at worst when they have people like Johnson supposedly withing their fandom.

Sh-should we launch him into space?

You get the distraction, someone else get the spaceship.

No, you guys in the UK should just vote for Captain Britain instead.

x4 I'd say he's more of a Puny Human, anyhow.

Have the Mavel comics addressed Brexit at all?

He might take a level in badass and then come back to trash London. Best to keep him were we can keep an eye on him.

Edited by windleopard on Sep 15th 2019 at 1:01:57 AM