Apparently, the Voltron comic has ended unceremoniously with issue #11. The website at devilsdue.net has a picture of #12 but my comic store has never seen it. And that website is never updated. How do you stop producing a comic in the middle of a story??!!??
Micronauts apparently ended with issue #3.
Those were the only two Devil's Due comics I was reading, as I am not much of a G.I. Joe fan and I really can't afford, both for monetary and time restrictions, a new universe (their Aftermath universe). And they stop two comics without a word. Not a single word.
This is the reason that independents don't get the circulation that some of them deserve. We consumers do not want to invest in a new series and then not have it ever finish! Call it a mini-series then with a finite number of issues! Although that sometimes doesn't work either--remember Frank Miller's and Geof Darrow's Hard Boiled? That three-issue comic had about a year inbetween #3 and #4.
So I will not be buying any more Devil's Due comics, no matter how tempting. To cancel a series is one thing, but to stop producing without so much as a by-your-leave and right in the middle of a storyline is inexcusable.
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