"We come into this world alone and we leave the same way. The time we spent in between - time spent alive, sharing, learning together... is all that makes life worth living." - Jean Grey
Wonder if that is girlfriends in the platonic or romantic sense? I guess the former is more likely. Still a bit of an odd team up or encounter given they never interacted before and their connection via the Morlocks and Feral's sister is rather thin. Unless it is out of continuity at which point she could really set their encounter up as what ever she desires.
Also with these two as foundation would said imaginary "X-Girlfriends" series be about moraly flexible mutant woman with strong temper issues getting into violent fights?
Well, we'll see in April what that story will be like.
I'm there for more Sophie Campbell comics, and especially X-Men comics. I loved her art on Glory.
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I guess deamon days is skipping a month
I know they have had quarterly series in the past, things like X-Men Unlimited and Spider-Man Unlimited.
This is still a bit different and much more a creator driven project of a creator who is much in demand and as far as I know doing her first ongoing interiors work so I would not be surprised if this sees delays even with the scheduled gaps.
Let's hope the story and it's art will be good.
This book allready faces an uphill battle to win over critics and readers, since being centered around promoting female Marvel characters and writers, it has or will likely gain the stigma of being just an attempt by Marvel to gain brownie points, rather than actualy trying to providing a good product to their target audience. So as unfair as it sounds, it needs to have good quality to not be written off.
For characters like Peggy Carter, She-Hulk, Rogue or Mystique however, it won't matter if it fails or not. They are long established A- and B- list characters with a strong stock among readers. Weak stories for them will just be thrown on a pile next to the one with the good stories.
But for C-listers like Marrow and Feral, for whom every appearance counts, it could easily be another coffin nail in their chances of gaining relevance. They are allready on thin ice for being an oddball choice in a prestige project book meant to showcase Marvel's greatest.
But given the writer is not a rookie and actualy seems to like the characters and know their history, they at least have a chance.
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Marvel's recent output has been mixed, both in it's quality and how it's recieved, reflecting in steadily declining sales numbers for a lot of titles, which isn't ideal when the modern cape comic market is also not in the best state either.
So anything which isn't playing it safe, has a metaphorical crosshair on it, to be bombarded with critiscism and getting percieved as sales killers, if it fails. Because when sales are low, people (especialy those in charge), like to blame it on the things which weren't playing it safe.
With the only exception being things which the people in charge like to push in the hope that it becomes popular if it's pushed enough. Then it's second chance, third chance, fourth chance, etc. (Just like when the WWE wants to tell it's audience who they should see as their new favorit).
So with this outlook, i'm concerned that if it fails, blame will go to the unsafe elements of it. Like the two c-list X-men characters who weirdly got a whole story in a book otherwise using A- and B-list characters.
Hence why my feeling towards the whole thing went from "Oh that's unexpected but cool that they get a moment to shine." to "Oh, what if it fails and the two get marked as sales killing elements?". Because i can't see the editorial wanting to push them (though if their story is recieved well it could raise their stock and increase the chance of being picked up by writers in the future).
I also have admited in the past that i have a cynic outlook towards the comic industry.
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... It's a simple anthology one-shot meant to showcase new writers and female characters, in the vein of previous acclaimed one-shots like Marvel's Voices and Marvel Snapshots. The future of comics isn't hanging on balance because of its release!