Hot off the heels of the announcement that Moon Knight is ending at #12, it looks like Generation Hope is the latest in a growing list of casualties to low sales. While writer James Asmus does note in a CBR interview that he got to tell the full story he was brought on to tell, the book will be brought right up to the beginning of Avengers vs X-Men, which will feature Hope as a central character.
As Asmus notes in the interview,
I can’t thank you all enough for the support and enthusiasm for the first few issues! And if you’ve read “Generation Hope” from the first arc to my issues, there’s a lot for you in the last two issues. (Including a little parallel structure in issue #17 that mirrors a bit of what Kieron did in #1.)
If there is one notable thing about Generation Hope and, to a smaller extent, Moon Knight being cancelled (let alone all those books announced as cancelled in December, including Ghost Rider, X-23 and Daken), it’s this: often times, you’ll notice that fans clamor for new characters to helm new titles and push their way past the second or third tier and become as prominent or iconic as characters in the big leagues. Yet, despite these digital message board clamorings, when we are in fact offered a title starring a group of brand new characters fighting for their home, fans just don’t seem to respond as well to their story when it counts, choosing still instead to buy the “big” books, or the ones that “matter,” which in turn results in poor sales and subsequent cancellations.
It’s kind of disheartening, to a degree, as I personally was rather looking forward to seeing James Asmus really go to town with the characters after Gillen left the book. Ah well. At least we still have Avengers Academy.
