The Four Color Media Monitor

Given the lack of faith the Quesada-dominated editorial at Marvel is still held hostage by has in the characters under their control, this doesn't surprise me at all (Via Great Curve). So much for wanting to put together a whole list of the issues as time goes by on that Ben Grimm fansite I built.

Writer Dan Slott told people at Newsarama:

THE THING launched during the beginning of INFINITE CRISES, the end of HOUSE OF M, and when a large portion of Marvel's promotional dollars were being spent to push SPIDER-MAN: THE OTHER. It was a horrible time to launch ANY book-- let alone a 5th ongoing FANTASTIC FOUR title (FANTASTIC FOUR, MK4, ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR, and MARVEL ADVENTURES FANTASTIC FOUR) that was also coinciding with a couple of FANTASTIC FOUR mini-series and one-shots.

Of course it was a horrible time to launch a book like this one, but then again, why would Marvel's resident domineers really even care?

Still, with what Slott has to say about his success in developing a fanbase despite these problems, that's exactly why, as JK Parkin says, there should be a campaign to put Slott on Spider-Man. But not just Spider-Man, it's THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN he should be on! It's thanks to the current management's keeping non-entities like Michael Straczynski on ASM that I haven't been able to buy great characters like Spidey for an epoch. (Update: and now, here's why I am so disgusted, I take back my kind words for Slott.)

Oh, like I said before, if The Thing is going down, are we to expect Ms. Marvel to sadly take the plunge soon too, even if Brian Bendis is the one writing? (Considering how questionable his devotion to the MCU is, something tells me it wouldn't matter to him, if he's getting paid well.) I don't know, but in any case, Carol Danvers deserves much better than Bendis as a writer.

Labels: Fantastic Four, marvel comics