I blame Blade. Movie sensation, but a comic book jinx.

First contender for Marvel Second Feature? Maybe a backup to Brubaker’s Captain America? I’d pay $3.99/mo for that.

Scotty Quick just became a Red Lantern.

unlucky, I called this when #1 came out, they had a longer run than I expected. Damn shame, this was the best cap britain comic since the original.

I can’t blame Marvel for canceling it, there just wasn’t that big an audience.

Instead, I blame all the people buying Ultimatum and Justice League of America.

Hopefully somebody will take the time to check in on these characters every once in a while, maybe have them pop up in a Mighty Avengers arc or something.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

Does this mean Dracula wins, and gets to keep England?

That sucks. Paul Cornell is a gem and everything he writes is brilliant.

Really, Gail. Have you read any of his personal checks? They’re practically illegible.

Blade? Uh, no. Blame Gordon Brown (who made a much-publicised guest appearance in #1). For he is a Jonah whose every endorsement brings doom to any football team or business enterprise…

WTF??! UGH!! Maybe if it had “Dark” added to it’s title it would have sold more? I am so sick of this - seriously! The book was so much better than so much out there from Marvel currently, and it was affordable enough as did not require reading all these mega-part, wallet-hurting crossovers. I wish we had had time to get a letter campaign going. Is it too late, d’ya think?

DAMN. That was one of my favorite books too. Right after a month of them saying it’s not cancelled… they go ahead and do it. No fair.

Wow, Marvel cancels one of their top 3 books. Stay classy, House of Ideas.

ahhh! and it was really just getting going. still, no surprise. I’m sad though, I’m really, really sad.

Guess they had to make room for another Deadpool book no one’s going to give a damn about.

Seriously, 3 Deadpool books are necessary, but we can’t have our one high quality Marvel book?

Oh come now!

If the book’s not making Marvel money how do they keep it going? Can somebody show us the monthly sales on the book just so we can get a better idea of how it was managing. I’m pretty sure it’s been on the decline since issue one. Additionally, I don’t blame the glut of books on the shelves or the $3.99 increase. Then again I thought the increase was supposed to help balance out the lower selling books. Somebody needs to ask Joe Q about that.

If people think the book is good enough to pick it up monthly they will. It’s obvious that people just loved Captain Britain a little (or a lot) less than all of the other books they purchased.

Damn. I’ve really had no interest in Captain Britain or any of his s

*sigh*

Damn. Best Captain Briatin book since the Alan Moore / Alan Davis run.

Oh well, my total Marvel list now amounts to 1 comic (Amazing Spidey). They started losing me with ‘House Of M’, and provided the ideal jumping-off point with ‘Civil War’. I guess me and marvel are no longer meant to be…

I agree with another poster - maybe if this had ‘Dark Reign’ along the top it would have sold to all the zombies..?

Oh well.

things marvel printed instead of this book:

a 3rd reboot of exiles.
a 2nd deadpool book.
a 3rd wolverine book, besides the average 8 he is in monthly.
dark young avengers.
marvel divas.
skrull kill krew (after SI has been over for months).
fantastic force.

seriously, what the hell?

U_no, here are the most recent figures available from The Beat:

108. CAPTAIN BRITAIN & MI-13
05/08 Cpt. Britain & MI-13 #1 - 43,281
06/08 Cpt. Britain & MI-13 #2 - 37,986 (-12.2%)
07/08 Cpt. Britain & MI-13 #3 - 39,100 ( +2.9%)
08/08 Cpt. Britain & MI-13 #4 - 36,826 ( -5.8%)
09/08 Cpt. Britain & MI-13 #5 - 32,999 (-10.4%)
10/08 Cpt. Britain & MI-13 #6 - 28,033 (-15.0%)
11/08 Cpt. Britain & MI-13 #7 - 22,189 (-20.8%)
12/08 Cpt. Britain & MI-13 #8 - 21,236 ( -4.3%)
01/09 Cpt. Britain & MI-13 #9 - 18,483 (-13.0%)
02/09 Cpt. Britain & MI-13 #10 - 20,627 (+11.6%)
03/09 Cpt. Britain & MI-13 #11 - 17,757 (-13.9%)
6 mnth (-46.2%)

(computer posted before I could finish)

Maybe this could be a temporary thing? Cancel it and re-launch it as “MI-13 #1.”

I almost didn’t pick up the first issue because I thought it was just another Secret Invasion tie-in (I ignored most of em), but after giving it a quick glance, I couldn’t put it down.

Maybe if they re-launched it as it’s own creature, instead of an unneeded 13th wheel to a bloated crossover.

This is the consumers’ fault for not buying it, not Marvel’s, why would they want to cancel a book if it was profitable by a writer their giving more and more work to…readership wasn’t there. Same reason we won’t see another Hellcat mini…god that one would make a great backup though.

It would be nice for once to see a headline like 3rd Wolverine book canceled. But no, every dark character and his pet gets a book but not something with substance. Keep it up Marvel and you’ll have the same 10 characters in 100 books each month.

Bummer. I really dug the first trade. So we should see a total of 3 stories from this series? I’ll be getting all the trades.

I hope this doesn’t hurt chances of seeing another Alpha Flight or a Winter Guard book any time soon.

That really sucks, I loved the series and enjoyed Cornell’s writing and Kirk’s art. I have always been a Captain Britain fan and once again Marvel just treats him like crap. Well at least Cornell will be working on the Wildcards series which is a plus.

I appreciated reading Cornell in interviews, it looks like he had great projects for this title…
To me, it was one of the best written comics regarding character’s interactions, something I don’t find anymore in the current X-books ( excepting X-Factor of course ) but I think the title deserved one or two shorter stories or self-contained ones, to show more the MI13 aspect - Alan Davis was great for that on Excalibur. And I wasn’t comfortable with so many sworded characters. I’d prefer to see Blade into New Avengers, but I’m glad mR Cornell brought back the Black Knight and Meggan…

My main concern is we’ll not see the end of the Meggan story that was being set up
I really hope we get her back before the run ends but i’m not holding out hope

Uncle Jawa, I was in the same boat. I gave the book a shot when it started, and while I liked it, there were other books I was buying I liked much more. So, I only got the first 4 issues…ended up finding issues 5 and 6 for $1 at a local store. A friend of mine still buys the book and says it’s gotten much better, I just haven’t found room in the budget to try it out again. Regardless, I’ll be looking for the remaining issues in cheap bins, I guess.

Oh, and I totally agree about Black Knight…love the character, put him in Mighty Avengers down the road!!

This book was doing so well, things were starting to really unfold. I find it quite strange that this title would end so soon. But then again with Paul being all over the place and so busy, I don’t think is was up there with his main priorities. It would be great if someone would take the wheel on this one and make a real go at the title. There are lots of young writers and artist that Im sure wouldnt mind taking over where Paul left off. Hope something transpires over the next little bit.

Why the hell does marvel even bother starting new titles anymore? Everything but the flagship titles are doomed to fail.

Told the depressing news this afternoon by my friendly nighbourhood comic shopkeeper, and I am not impressed at all. I love this book - the writing, the artwork, the characterisation of the MI13, the return of Dracula (long overdue) and the potaential return of Megan Braddock. I have been a keen follower of Paul’s work for many years, and really enjoyed the direction that M13 was going, and looked foward to reading what was to happen to the superhero community in Britain, but now we’ll never know. A terrible, terrible waste.