Posted by Public Enemy #1 on 6/22/2009, 4:33 pm, in reply to "Re: Marvel has decided to push / support She-Red Hulk (Lyra) in ways that never happened to Jen. "
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: Which time? Which canceled version might
: have survived?
The thing is, PAD, many people are unfamiliar with She-Hulk, and, say, giving you 8 pages every month in a major book to promote your work might have got some interest from some other fans... and these new folks would be there for "PAD's She-Hulk", not for Savage, Sensational etc.
: See, all the pushes in the world aren't
: going to help when a character has a fan
: base so splintered that there's no one
: component sufficiently large to sustain a
: book.
Many characters have NO fanbase, and they can maintain a book (oddly enough!). Just see Skaar, Karla Sofen as the new Ms. Marvel, and Lyra... they are good examples.
I think you can always build a fanbase from wherever you start...
: She-Hulk
: gets canceled over and over again because
: unfortunately, all too often, the only thing
: that She-Hulk fans can agree on is that they
: don't want to see what other She-Hulk fans
: like.
I agree with you here, we fans are "guilty" for the book's cancellation. But I think the book lacked the necessary support from the Company.
Never saw the book getting the push, say, Ms. Marvel did... and that is nowhere nearly as interesting a book as yours.
: You beginning to see why Marvel might be
: interested in pushing a version that doesn't
: come with decade's worth of mutually
: contradictory sets of baggage?
On the other hand, every time Marvel decides to reboot a given character, they go back to their original history... that's a bit complicated and depends on the character..
But, yeah, She-Hulk's fan base is definitely broken...
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