October, 2006. Spider-Girl is getting relaunched as The Amazing Spider-Girl!
WE’VE WON !!!
After seven hard months of letter-writing, flier-posting, radio boasting, banner-making, and ad-placing, Spider-Girl has come to an end. This October, be ready for the relaunching of The Amazing Spider-Girl!
Yes, there are many other worthy books which have been canceled before its time. Spider-Girl, on numerous occasions, would have joined the ranks of the “canceled and forgotten”. When Marvels says that something is canceled, then it’s canceled. Why is Spider-Girl different?
SPIDER-GIRL LIVES BECAUSE OF HER FANS!!!
It's no hoax. If it was, Marvel would be doing it to all their books; especially Arana. But then again, people hate picking up books that they think are getting canceled. Man, don't ya just love being a part of something that totally freaks people out?
A huge thank you to everybody who participated in the campaign during these past seven months. This is old school storytelling from the days when real heroes walked the earth and inspired readers to find the hero within themselves, and make their lives extraordinary. It is not often that we can make a difference in the world because sometimes it seems the world does not listen to us. The oppression of reality can kill the human spirit. If ever we needed heroes, that time is now! Inspired by an ideal that Spider-Girl is worth fighting for and that her ties to continuity (before all the relaunches and retcons occurred) is worth preserving, we fans once again have shown the entire comics industry what it means to never give up hope, and what it means to have fans who deeply care about their favorite comic. Let NO ONE tell you otherwise. Just listen to Marvel itself!
Tom Breevort, senior editor at Marvel, has said that no other character fan-base is as vocal or – more importantly – as active as the Spider-Girl fans. An article on Newsarama has TWICE credited the fans with the relaunch in the same article.
The sales of the digest reprints to mainstream bookstores and school book fairs have been astronomical, demonstrating to all us fans and to Marvel itself that the children of the mainstream are not unreachable! There is hope for the industry when a comic book can reach out and touch so many new readers. This is something worth fighting for. This is something worth going against industry executives and editors to change their view of “marketplace realities”. These children in the mainstream are worth going against our fellow fans sometimes. The ideal of Spider-Girl’s World is worth defying common sense about! From all of us at Savespidergirl.com to all the fans here and all the fans who are learning to love comics because of Spider-Girl, we salute you!
