The current state of disarray at Marvel

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Diabolical wrote:Well, so much for Legacy.
Marvel announced another relaunch coming soon, like Marvel Now a few years ago.
All the Avengers titles will be condensed in one title with Avengers #1.
Wait, so is Avengers not even gonna hit a milestone issue before it relaunches? It’s on 681 right now.
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That's still 19 issues (or 2 relaunches) away.
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It's weekly right now, running through until 686 or 687. I would suggest they'll #1 again after that then revert again for 700. We've seen this shit before.
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Don't get used to Waid on Cap because its getting relaunched on July 4th by the guy that writes Black Panther.
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I wonder if he'll continue "TRUTH". The guy is a major current events writer from the perspective of black folks outside his comic writing.
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I will leave this here. I find it more & more interesting the more I look at it.

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Wow, I started reading it and realized how long it was. I’ll have to come back and finish it.

I think it’s amusing that they “finish” the definitive run (Englehart and Pollard) exactly where I started buying FF, with Simonson’s run.
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I have read WAY more after that point than before. I'm amassing collections of the Lee Kirby stuff but I'm not at the point yet where I can go through it in proper order. I have all the Byrne issue here as well, but again they sit there waiting to be read. Getting closer to the top of the list though.
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I’ve read a bunch of the Byrne stuff but all out of order.

When I first started collecting, I was buying a lot of stuff one issue at a time in both directions. So with FF I was getting Simonson’s stuff, but also buying Englehart’s stuff backwards towards 300 and reading it backwards one issue at a time.
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It's interesting to me, the more I read ABOUT Marvel, the more I hear that Englehart's runs on many books were among the best. I've never sought out his runs based on name alone, but I think that might be in the works for FF & CAP anyhow.
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Speaking of the Fantastic Four...

Dan Slott and Sara Pichelli are relaunching the series this summer.

Also, Thor, Uncanny X-Men and Amazing Spidey are getting relaunched.
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Re fucking re relaunched. Black Panther also gets a new #1, and I'm sure there are others.
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Some good news...
The changes for all Issue #1’s include a brand new trade dress highlighting an issue’s creative team, a smaller UPC box, and dual numbering for the higher Legacy numbering and the lower, relaunched number.
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Well. That only took them like 12 years to figure out.
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They announced a new West Coast Avengers series starting both Hawkeyes, Gwenpool, Quentin Quire, and America Chavez.
The hook is they are not a well funded team, so they’ll be making money to run the team by being on a reality show.

So the problem there is does no one remember what happened the last time there was a reality show about superheroes? The New Warriors all died, 600 people in Stamford CT exploded, and Civil War started.
So A. Why would any superhero think it would be a good idea to be on a reality show, and more importantly B. Why would any network, studio and/or producer sign off on a reality show, knowing the stigma attached to the previous one?
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