Nick Spencer won’t be taking over Supergirl with January’s #60 after all, according to both DC Comics and the writer himself. In a post ostensibly about Spencer’s ongoing title T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, on official DC Universe blog The Source, the following information slipped in:
On a related note, Nick Spencer will be stepping off Supergirl to concentrate on T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, with writer James Peaty co-scripting issue #60 and then taking over for him from there. (Bernard Chang will stay on as artist for the book.)
Spencer later confirmed the news on his personal Twitter account:
Okay all, breaking some bad news today– I won’t be doing SUPERGIRL after all.
But hey, nobody cry for me! All kinds of cool stuff coming up in 2011, so stay tuned and all that.
Spencer’s arc was intended to include a variety of other younger DC heroes — Batgirl, Blue Beetle, Miss Martian, Static and Robin — and it’s not yet known if Peaty will continue in that vein. Peaty has written Supergirl before, penning issue #33 back in 2008.
December 16th, 2010 at 11:01 am
Guess I can drop Supergirl now.I started reading the series when gates and Igle came onboard and was going to stay on for Spencer, Peaty, not so much.
December 16th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Awwww, Spencer’s run sounded like it would be fun, and with all those team-ups planned I would have picked this title up. Sad panda.
December 16th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Heh…Spencer and Chang were only a temp fill-in anyway, so that much doesn’t seem to have changed. Too bad for the character; looks like she’s going back to schizophrenic ‘creative teams’ again.
December 16th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Peaty’s issue #33 was a great issue. Chang’s the best artist this book has had in a long time. I hope they hold onto the title. This change is the best news for the character in a long time.
Igle and Gates had the book and their run is a lot of hype by the usual suspects. It wasn’t selling that well and only looked good in comparison to Puckett’s atrocious run.
December 16th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
The usual suspects? Almost every comic site and blog right?
December 16th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
“The usual suspects? Almost every comic site and blog right?”
The bloggers who screamed down everyone who enjoyed the book pre issue 20. Called posters “perverts,” “pedophiles,” and bashed them as “masturbaters” for liking Chuchill or Turner’s Supergirl or not liking Guedes/Igle’s Supergirl. They acted disgusting and bullied DC into getting their way on the book and they bullied away criticism from message boards (in the early days of Gates/Igle run, there was alot of controversy and saying good/bad comments were 50/50 would be generous).
Let’s face it. Under Gates/Igle, the book was stuck in constant crossovers– including the very bad New Krypton mess. They complicated her origin and they used a cheap “Kryptonite poisoning” explain all. Plenty of real critics, who didn’t follow the hype machine but actually paid attention to the issues, had legitimate beefs with their run. The comic site that runs “buy” piles and “meh” piles has had Supergirl in the “meh” pile for ages. Let’s face it, selling in the low 20,000′s isn’t what a universally loved title does.
December 16th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Its unfortunate that Gates had to wrestle with crossovers, but I have no problem calling out DC on how poorly executed the first part of the current volume was handled. Flat out, the spiralling New Krypton storyline hurt Supergirl sales, but I’ll count myself as a reader who was actually impressed with the elegant solution to the seemingly intractable problem of a nigh-sociopathic and, to me, unreadable Supergirl character. I’m not surprised to see the early part of the run has its supporters (what isn’t somebody’s favorite on the internet? Particularly in comics and sci-fi?), but I’d much rather have a Kara Zor-El with some ties as a character to the first 30-odd years of the character’s existence than the trainwreck mess of “I’m here to kill Superman, and my dad is a psycho” plotline to nowhere that just… man, that was some really bad stuff.
December 16th, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Was there ever an explanation given for the departure of Sterling Gates from Supergirl?
Stability from the Gates/Igle team was probably the only thing that kept the title from tanking completely in the pool of excrement that the title was spiraling into before they came on board. Which unfortunately seems to be the renewed fate, with the chaos that is surrounding the title and elsewhere the character appears.
December 16th, 2010 at 3:57 pm
@Heine:
hello Acedeman/Larry Gardner. How did i know it was you.
Ignore the freak, folks
December 16th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
So hiene/Larrygardner/Acedeman/whatever.. is this your plan? Go from message board to message board complaining that you’ve been bullied. Like you’ve been doing for the last two years?
December 16th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
I’m sorry. but I was stoked about sly Spenser his morning glories is good but I don’t know anything about the new guy. I personally think it’s to bad Dc couldn’t have asked G. Willow Wilson she has more experience and her Vixen miny was a great read.
December 16th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
“Peaty’s issue #33 was a great issue. Chang’s the best artist this book has had in a long time. I hope they hold onto the title. This change is the best news for the character in a long time.”
Dude, it’s a temp fill-in; that’s all Spencer and Chang were originally under contract to do, and based on this new info it appears that this scenario hasn’t changed one bit.
December 17th, 2010 at 9:07 am
“Dude, it’s a temp fill-in; that’s all Spencer and Chang were originally under contract to do, and based on this new info it appears that this scenario hasn’t changed one bit.”
Temp fill-ins occasionally get extended on a book. People projected for long term frequently leave/are forced off books. Peaty and Chang are both capable of doing great things with this character. This is the first time I’ve had a bit of hope for enjoying this book in a long time. I hope DC gives Supergirl more teams like this and she loses the blogger controlled restrictions.
December 18th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
@ Radomski
Sorry dude I don’t know what beef or drama is going on but got to say that Heine had a good point.
DC has caved in for the cheapest of all gimmicks to flag up poor sales here the much overdone ‘oh pretty new look and paint job’ hoping the sheep come flocking.
It’s like putting a band aid on a lost limb hoping to stem the bleeding.
You can paint a turd but it’s still a turd at the end of the day, just it’s got paint on it now.
I’m gonna give the new team a try and some breathing space but this book just hit my expendable list and I have bought it from day one.
Least I can still read Supergirl in JLA for the mean time.