Spider-Girl May Be Finished – Only Fans Can Save It!

Tom Defalco announces what could be the end of Spectacular Spider-Girl, for good this time!

-Outhouse poster Spidertour turned us on to this news, in an article he wrote for Spider Man Crawl Space:

According to a post from Tom DeFalco on the Spider-Girl message board, this could be the last stand for Mayday — the miniseries could be the last original Spider-Girl material. Here’s the beginning of his post, with the rest following the jump …

Hi, Guys!

Here’s the current deal with Spider-Girl…
SPECTACULAR SPIDER-GIRL is going to be a 4-issue limited series.

#1 will include a 16 page Spider-Girl story, a 5 page American Dream story and 8 additional pages (but I don’t know what they will be.)

#2 will include a 16 page Spider-Girl story, a 5 page Buzz story and 1 page L’il Benjy story.

#3 will include two 16 spage Spider-Girl stories.

#4 will also include two 16 page Spider-Girl stories.

There is also talk about an additional Spider-Girl one-shot, but I don’t really have any details on that.

While MARVEL DIGITAL will print all the above material, they have decided to stop buying any new Spider-Girl stories.

I believe that Marvel has decided to print this “last” Spider-Girl limited series to see if our girl still has enough buyers to support a regular title or if it’s finally time to stop producing her.

Her fate will be decided by how many copies her limited series sells…as it should be!

Unfortunately, the odds are stacked against her. Comic book stores rarely support limited series these days–unless they are part of some big crossover event–and usually buy just enough copies to fulfill their pull lists.

Here’s what YOU can do to help even the odds: If you plan to buy SPECTACULAR SPIDER-GIRL, please go to your local comic book store and RESERVE it now. (If you don’t reserve your copy, the odds are that you won’t get one…just like what happened with KID COLT, BLACK KNIGHT and, for a few of you, SPIDER-MAN: THE CLONE SAGA.)

You can also try to convince your local comic book store to buy a few extra copies and put them out on the racks…so that people who haven’t reserved a copy will have a chance to buy a copy.

And please you tell your friends about SPECTACULAR SPIDER-GIRL. (A lot of people don’t even know the book is coming out!)

We have had a wild and long run, gang! If we’re meant to continue, so be it! If not, thanks for being there!

Tom D.

Say it ain’t so, Marvel. We’re the only ones that can save Spider-Girl now.

Source: Spider-Man Crawl Space
Syndicated from The Outhouse – The Greatest Comic Book Website
Posted originally: 2010-04-24 12:12:47

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