Marvel abandons FCBD for a rival event
0 Comments Published by Avi Green on Sunday, December 21, 2025 at 12:42 AM.
Popverse says Marvel, possibly trying to virtue-signal, will not be participating in this year's FCBD event, assuming it goes ahead, and instead, they're working with Penguin/Random House on a separate project:
Now, Romita's taken an assignment drawing a special that perpetuates a terrible disfavor to even his legendary dad's hard work on Spidey from 1966, when Mary Jane was first introduced visually as much as in script reference. And this is what's being offered for the sake of a new variation on FCBD? It's very sad there's bound to be plenty of people who'll fall for this, and what if they decide to shell out 5-plus dollars for more stultifying storytelling in the regular Spidey series as a result? Let's hope that won't be the case. But for now, it's regrettable how Spidey, as much as any other Marvel hero and series, has been exploited for such useless tripe when the real deal ended long ago as a result of so much artistic mismanagement.
Marvel Comics is saying "Free Comic Book Day no more!" Instead, the House of Ideas is teaming up with Penguin Random House to put on a new event, curiously scheduled for the first Saturday in May (May 2, 2026), called Comics Giveaway Day.And what are the 4 items they boast about for the occasion like? Let's check one as an example:
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1000/QUEEN IN BLACK #1 CGD 2026 - written by Joe Kelly, Al Ewing, and Phillip Kennedy Johnson, with art by John Romita Jr., Iban Coello, and Nic Klein, with a cover by Dike Ruan - The road to AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1000 takes a big turn here as fate bears down on Peter Parker! The Queen in Black has been coronated, and Mary Jane Watson as Venom is not ready for her! The Eldest has taken control of the Hulk, and what happens next will make every past Hulk battle look like a skirmish!This is just what we need, isn't it? Prolonging the shoddy premise of Mary Jane shoved into the Venom role, in a comic with leftist Ewing as a co-writer, and while Romita Jr. may have once been a talented artist, he's really brought his skills down to sad levels in the past 2 decades, wasting them on projects completely unsuited for his talents, if he still has any. His work with J. Michael Straczynski on Spider-Man, it goes without saying, was easily the worst of what he's drawn since the turn of the century, based on how it all turned out to be for the sake of a storyline emphasizing the blabberings of a figure called Ezekiel, which in the end lead nowhere but One More/Brand New Day.
Now, Romita's taken an assignment drawing a special that perpetuates a terrible disfavor to even his legendary dad's hard work on Spidey from 1966, when Mary Jane was first introduced visually as much as in script reference. And this is what's being offered for the sake of a new variation on FCBD? It's very sad there's bound to be plenty of people who'll fall for this, and what if they decide to shell out 5-plus dollars for more stultifying storytelling in the regular Spidey series as a result? Let's hope that won't be the case. But for now, it's regrettable how Spidey, as much as any other Marvel hero and series, has been exploited for such useless tripe when the real deal ended long ago as a result of so much artistic mismanagement.
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