Marvel: newuniversal?

[ratcreature]

I haven't seen any new issues of newuniversal (written by Warren Ellis, art by Salvador Larroca) in the last couple of solicitations, which led me to believe that it may have been a miniseries rather than an ongoing one as I thought, but then I actually read the first six issues-- I had read the first issue when it came out, but it seemed very much

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[ratcreature]

Ah, good to know that newuniversal hasn't been cancelled, but I find the pause annoying. Do you know when #7 comes out? Also, is there a special Marvel Wiki somewhere? The general wikipedia entry Ilooked at just mentions that the original Marvel New Universe (of which newuniversal is a relaunch) consisted of wight linked titles. Also considering that the are reprinting #1-6 as HC I'd find it odd if there were only two more issues, because that's not enough for another collection, and I suspect if it was just eight issues they'd reprint all in one volume.

And yeah, I've read some of Ellis' other stuff with mixed reactions.

I'm aware that they tend to rename after team events that lead to teams being reformed or whatever, and I actually read Avengers during that weird Scarlet Witch thing that got the series renamed. But I still think the relaunch and renumbering practice sucks. When a series does that it's completely confusing to keep track of when you come to it later.

I mean DC does it too though currently they tend to do it without the silly "new", like when the relaunched The Flash recently, and I've heard they are about to re-relaunch yet again and go back to the old numbers (well to the numbers of the second volume of Flash, it's not as if they hadn't relaunched before). My favorite example for this are the (Teen) Titans, where the series went from Teen Titans to New Teen Titans to the renumberered New Teen Titans (Vol. 2) while the other became Tales of the Teen Titans while continuing the numbers of the first volume (or something I always forget what exactly that was) to the Team Titans to the Teen Titans (Vol. 2) to The Titans and finally back to the Teen Titans (Vol. 3) again, and it's always with reasons, but first getting into that series I needed a frelling flowchart just to understand what order the series was in.