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

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

Iron Man 2.0 and Alpha Flight (which has only just recently been upgraded to an ongoing series much to the delight of Canadian fans) have both been cancelled, and you can read all the details here...

By JoshWilding - Oct 23, 2011 11:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics
Source: Digital Spy

Digital Spy report that two of Marvel's newer titles, Alpha Flight and Iron Man 2.0 have been cancelled. The solicitations for January 2012 point to an end for the two comics (as well as Paul Jenkins' All-Winners Squad) and while the end of the Nick Spencer penned series focusing on the adventures of War Machine may not come as that big of a surprise, no one was expecting the end of Alpha Flight after it was only just recently revealed at the FanExpo in Toronto that it had been upgraded to an ongoing series.

"Fans and friends, I'm sorry to confirm that Alpha Flight will indeed end with issue #8," co-writer Greg Pak tweeted earlier this week. "The book was originally conceived as an 8-issue mini, so we're still telling the big, fun story we intended from the start." There has not yet been any official word on why either of the books have been cancelled, although the September sales for Alpha Flight #4 were only around 23,000.


Alpha Flight #8



• THE FINAL ISSUE!
• The big showdown between Alpha Flight and the Master of the World!


Iron Man 2.0 #12



The world is in the balance as War Machine races to take down global terrorist Palmer Addley once and for all! It’s an all-or-nothing battle of wills as Rhodey presses every advantage, tests every skill, and depends on every relationship to finally outsmart, outfight and outlast his greatest enemy and become the twenty-first-century War Machine.





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goldenavenger77
goldenavenger77 - 10/23/2011, 11:38 AM
I haven't read any Iron Man 2.0 but War Machine's own comic that came after Secret Invasion which I was reading didn't last either, 12 issues I think.

Maybe, next time baby.
HannibalKing
HannibalKing - 10/23/2011, 11:41 AM
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.
MaddMonkk
MaddMonkk - 10/23/2011, 11:44 AM
zut alors! Prochaine fois bébé.
drykillogic22
drykillogic22 - 10/23/2011, 11:51 AM
SMMFH!!!
mithiama
mithiama - 10/23/2011, 11:51 AM
normally i wouldn't care but those were 2 of my favourite new books plus they cancelled herc which had a really good first arc. When marvel tried to get the entire marvel universe involved in the fear itself and spider island arcs everything got screwed up and they have marvel superheroes and marvel spiderman suck. Amazing spiderman and avenging spiderman are the only 2 good spiderman comics besides of course venom. they cancelled books with potential and continued publishing books that no one reads and they screwed the comics up by involving every comic in every event...black panther was just done with fear itself and then give us a spider island arc same thing for herc. herc had one original story arc thats it...at least we know disney is refining marvels selection process.
ZombieOverEasy
ZombieOverEasy - 10/23/2011, 12:04 PM
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).
DarthTesla
DarthTesla - 10/23/2011, 12:14 PM
Damn that sucks.

The current 'Flight run was actually enjoyable.

Iron Man 2.0 on the other hand kinda bored me, granted I only read 3 issues of it.
Miracleman15
Miracleman15 - 10/23/2011, 12:28 PM
Where the hell is the end of The Twelve and Desolation Jones?!
Miracleman15
Miracleman15 - 10/23/2011, 12:29 PM
Oh, wait, Desolation Jones wasn't Marvel, I forgot...
CaptainTall
CaptainTall - 10/23/2011, 12:41 PM
Yeah, I also heard that Marvel fired a lot of employees recently due to bad sales. Not writers, just a bunch of office employees.
prototype87
prototype87 - 10/23/2011, 12:42 PM
marvel72
marvel72 - 10/23/2011, 1:20 PM
that alpha flight cover is shit hot.
StuckInPanels
StuckInPanels - 10/23/2011, 1:22 PM
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
ROMACK
ROMACK - 10/23/2011, 1:41 PM
Alpha Flight always gets screwed.
marvel72
marvel72 - 10/23/2011, 1:44 PM
alpha flight should of had some different team members like wolverine & deadpool.

then it would of sold shit loads.
cologne
cologne - 10/23/2011, 2:02 PM
There are just way too many team books around, I doubt the new defenders book will last longer than ten issues..
at the end of the day only its only the X-titles and the avengers that sell
YeaOkYea
YeaOkYea - 10/23/2011, 2:38 PM
That sucks! I was actually enjoying Alpha Flight. Had it on my pull list :(
brewtownpsych
brewtownpsych - 10/23/2011, 4:40 PM
that's too bad b/c i heard this was one a few current marvels that is solid ... discrimination b/c northstar is a bender? :P

(they are just kind of a Canadian x-men, you have to agree ... nothing good writing can't cure but you know what i mean ...
marvel72
marvel72 - 10/23/2011, 5:20 PM
@ 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
Hannibal_King
Hannibal_King - 10/23/2011, 10:06 PM
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.
IronHood
IronHood - 10/24/2011, 12:54 AM
I'm not a fan of Rhodey's solo adventure. I'll just read about him in Secret Avengers but man why cancel a team about Canadian superheroes. I'm sure the numbers weren't good that's why the titles were cancelled. I hope it was that and they have nothing against Canada.

But man I wouldn't cancel the titles this fast. Who knows if u threw in cameos from Deadpool, Wolverine & others who knows how much books they would sell & people would get more interested. You just couldn't wait could you marvel... It's a shame because, now we'll never know.
mithiama
mithiama - 10/24/2011, 5:17 AM
@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.
dnno1
dnno1 - 10/24/2011, 5:32 AM


JackBauer
JackBauer - 10/24/2011, 5:51 AM
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.
pepe
pepe - 10/24/2011, 10:16 AM
I just could´nt buy how the whole Alpha flight came back to life... Felt wrong
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