Latour, Rodriguez to Stick with "Spider-Gwen" Following "Secret Wars"

[gwenFan]

Thats the past, and they didnt. They got axed due to bad sales.

[Teek]

The should have 1 represent the volume and the .02, .03, .04 the the within the volume. They can stay at #1 forever that way

Right now, somebody at Marvel needs a new pair of underwear, and they don't know why...

[Von]

From the article, it sounds like they'll be picking up a lot of loose ends from volume 1. It probably won't be necessary but will certainly help to know what happened in V1.

Not entirely OT, but who did the Gwen in your avatar? That's a gorgeous take on the character

[justinslot]

Is this the first hint we've had anywhere that there will be a multiverse post-Secret Wars?

Though I guess a multiverse was always more likely than no multiverse, there's no particular reason for Marvel to slap that kind of constraint on their storytellers when the intention of this event (as far as I can tell) is to clean up the continuity of the main MU. I think they'll lose the 616 numbering since editorial seems to hate it.

I missed what Latour said at first:

IGN Comics: Now that we know we’re getting another Spider-Gwen series, the big question is, will she be a part of the “main” Marvel Universe after Secret Wars, or if she’ll still be in her alternate universe on Earth-65?

Jason Latour: The answer is “yes”. No seriously, it’s a little of column A and a little of column B.

The main focus of our first arc is on Gwen Stacy’s continuing adventures within her own universe (Earth 65), it’s pretty essential to who this Gwen Stacy is to have her own supporting cast and villains and problems. But Spider-Gwen was born out of a multiversal crossover event so the opportunity to hop around has always been present and honestly is just too fun to resist. So yeah, bouncing over to the 616 now and then is something we’re eager to explore too.

So despite Brevoort et al. not liking "616" it looks like the traditional numbering will remain, unless Latour spoke out of turn.

Wonder if there's a potential for some of the multiversal Spider-slaughter to be undone post-Secret Wars. You know, if you thought (say) the Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends or the Spider-Man Unlimited casts got jobbed.

[JLS Comics]

Not entirely OT, but who did the Gwen in your avatar? That's a gorgeous take on the character

Thanks, it is J. Scott Campbell

[Darthfury78]

It sounds like Gwen would be staying in her own universe and not making the crossover like Miles did.

I hope that Miles will eventually go back to his own universe as that was where works best. I think that Bendis wanted to bring Miles to 616 to tell his Spider-Men sequel story that he didn't get to tell. To Bendis, Peter(616) visited the Ultimate Universe. Now it was time for Miles to visit 616.

[Darthfury78]

Marvels obsession with #1s is really off putting.

Blame that on the current EiC Alonzo. Renumbering causes nothing but problems in the long run. Just like Kelly Sue Decornnick's Captain Marvel series, which might have been the reason to why she lost interest because of the cancellation of her first initial CM series only be be reset.

[Darthfury78]

They already stated they are doing "seasons" so there going to be a lot of renumberings.

The problem with that is one can not compare comic books as a TV season. It just doesn't work that way. None of the other comic publishers are following in Marvel's lead because it will just confuse their readers.

[ZephyrSurf]

Blame that on the current EiC Alonzo. Renumbering causes nothing but problems in the long run. Just like Kelly Sue Decornnick's Captain Marvel series, which might have been the reason to why she lost interest because of the cancellation of her first initial CM series only be be reset.

The problem with that is one can not compare comic books as a TV season. It just doesn't work that way. None of the other comic publishers are following in Marvel's lead because it will just confuse their readers.

Who DC and Valiant? Image doesn't do it at all since they're all Creator comics and Dark Horse only does it for a few comics. And I'm pretty sure CM got cancelled cause CM doesn't exactly sell as much as the carol corps would lead you to believe it sells.

[Agent Scarlet]

Fourth title to be announced post event meant to destroy the multiverse and consolidate the MU into a single universe takes place in an alternate universe.

What was the fracking point of this clusterfrack of an event!!

[ZephyrSurf]

it was supposed to fuse 1610 and 616 not get rid of the multiverse concept.

[cyberhubbs]

Fourth title to be announced post event meant to destroy the multiverse and consolidate the MU into a single universe takes place in an alternate universe.

What was the fracking point of this clusterfrack of an event!!

It did consolidate everything into one place for the duration of the Secret Wars event. Then everyone goes back home or sticks around. Battleworld may even still exist afterwards in some form or another.

[cyberhubbs]

The problem with that is one can not compare comic books as a TV season. It just doesn't work that way. None of the other comic publishers are following in Marvel's lead because it will just confuse their readers.

A season would count as ten to twelve months, so like television you have one major plot and several sub-plots that have a beginning and an end. The creative team sticks around that many issues, more or less, and then a new crew comes in. Maybe they stick around longer.

It's really not so different from television.

[Shadowras]

Who DC and Valiant? Image doesn't do it at all since they're all Creator comics and Dark Horse only does it for a few comics. And I'm pretty sure CM got cancelled cause CM doesn't exactly sell as much as the carol corps would lead you to believe it sells.

You have to give DC credit for the status changes to Batman and Superman, yet the numbering remained the same in fact the only new #1's were titles that were not around pre Convergence. Marvel would never do that with their titles.

[Piston]

The problem with that is one can not compare comic books as a TV season. It just doesn't work that way. None of the other comic publishers are following in Marvel's lead because it will just confuse their readers.

How will it confuse readers? The season concept is fairly simple and straightforward. Even the Comic Book Man wannabes gnashing their teeth about the renumberings should be able to figure it out, you know, assuming they aren't paralyzed by the jolt to their filing systems. Darkhorse is literally using this model right now for their Buffy and Angel comics. It works great. Builds anticipation.

But people would rather moan and wail at any change rather than see the industry try to survive in the face of an ever changing marketplace. There will come a day where comic books (and most regular books) will no longer be sold in paper form. That may well be in our lifetime. Using paper wastes resources, is bad for the environment, and is unnecessarily expensive. It's an outmoded model. Change will happen. It's inevitable.