COMICS: Marvel Cancels Alpha Flight And Iron Man 2.0 As Of January 2012!

Once again Marvel flips the bird to it's fans.
Meanwhile their paying large sums of money to Bendis and the "Marvel Architects" whilst firing a bunch of behind-the-scenes staff.
Ridiculous.

SMMFH!!!

Alpha Flight always gets canceled. I've loved just about every Alpha Flight run there's been, but the book doesn't gain enough readers ever. It always gets canceled. I didn't even bother picking this up because I doubted it would even make it to issue 8 when it was regarded as a mini-series. It's frustrating to watch the same cycle everytime an Alpha Flight series is announced. Announcement->Fan buzz->First issue (or two) do well->Slow drop off through the next few issues->Canceled.

@mithiama they don't publish books "noone reads". They cancel books that don't pull in enough readers. As long as typical fanboys buy into events, they'll continue to muck up books that have a small following. It's an attempt to get more readers, but in truth it drives off some of the readers that don't want to buy into the events.

Why not continue to publish the books with lower readership digitally? I'm sure anyone that really enjoyed the book would buy the digital releases, I know I would! It would eliminate (for the most part) the risk of a loss (from a publishing standpoint at least).

Oh, wait, Desolation Jones wasn't Marvel, I forgot...

Not surprised about both getting canned. Its all about the sales, a good book can get small #'s and get canceled while some bad books can have big #'s and not be canceled at all

alpha flight should of had some different team members like wolverine & deadpool.

then it would of sold shit loads.

That sucks! I was actually enjoying Alpha Flight. Had it on my pull list :(

@ ckal

XD hahahaha i just thought canadian team why not put a couple of popular canadian heroes in it i.e wolverine & deadpool.

they would have to check their group rota's

wolverine

x-men
x-force
avengers

deadpool

x-force

I would've been happy to have Wolverine on the Alpha Flight team it if meant the title remains on the shelf.
Heck, even re-title it Wolverine & Alpha Flight if you want.

@ZombieOverEasy i get what you mean and to be honest i'm not against the events in fact i enjoyed fear itself and i enjoyed the iron man arc of fear itself i thought that first part of that arc was really dramatic but when they go overboard like involving black panther pointlessly introducing an american panther who literally came out of nowhere it got kind of irritating and i get the fact that they'd want to cancel alpha flight because it doesn't get enough readers but marvel needs to realize that they need to run a book long enough for it to actually get a certain audience i am an avid comic book reader so i read every issue of the dcnu and i read every new marvel comic at least giving them a chance but others don't. The red lanterns isn't a very popular dcnu book but dc isn't planning to cancel it because obviously if it runs long enough eventually it'll do better. The only silver lining at least according to me is even if every comic from marvel is gonna somehow be related to the avengers or x men at least its going to be good. Maybe this'll improve the quality of the new books marvel puts out.

It would've made sense to have Wolverine in Alpha Flight. He's Canadian and he would've helped sales. It makes no sense for him to be in the Avengers. His killer instinct and personality doesn't fit and the Avengers doesn't need his help in the sales department.