City Of Heroes: Micronauts Are Making A Comeback!

by Matt Brady, Newsarama.com

MICRONAUTS BACK AT DEVIL'S DUE

It ended, it left, and now it's back. Adding another layer to the editorial changes coming in 2004 for Devil's Due is the re-addition of Micronauts to the publisher's lineup with Dan Jolley and Pat Broderick as the new series creative team. Newsarama spoke with the majors for more.

To cut it off at the knees from the start, yeah, even Devil's Due President Josh Blaylock knew the series wasn't working as well as they had hoped during its 11 issue run. "Frankly the story moved along way too slow in the beginning, and it didn't help that it was a bimonthly series," Blaylock said. "I also think it took a little too long for the team the book is named after to form. The 'Micronauts' don't really become the Micronauts until the second story arc.

"We really needed to do something to get some attention on the book, but were preparing for the departure from Image at the same time. Since things were hectic on our end, and the book needed tweaking anyway, I suggested the best thing to do was to put it on hiatus and relaunch it when we went solo. They didn't really want to wait that long, and took some time to think about it. In the meantime, we had no choice but to put it on hold and keep quiet until a decision was made. Fortunately, it's definitely back in our hands now, and ready to get down to some action packed stories."

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