Models, Inc. #1

[long_silence.insanejournal.com]

So Models, Inc was a miniseries originally solicited for February and has finally been rescheduled for August. Only the solicit is out at this time, no cover yet.

MODELS, INC. #1 (of 4)
Written by PAUL TOBIN
Penciled by VICENC VILLAGRASA
Cover by SCOTT CLARK
Variant Cover by PHIL JIMENEZ
Fashion Week is always a hectic time for models, and this year is no exception. Between escaped wolves, robbery attempts, and overly friendly police officers, Toni Turner, Patsy Walker, Jill Jerold, Chili Storm and Millicent (Millie the Model) Collins are testing the limits of their endurance. But when a brilliant young set designer is found murdered with three bullet holes in his back, and Millie proves to be the prime suspect, the models are forced to play detective in order to save one of their own!
* Retailers please note that this issue will contain an ad for Marvel Subscriptions.
32 PGS./Rated T+ ...$3.99

I didn't think it was worth posting at first. And then I noticed something had changed.

Here is the original solicit, see if you can spot the difference.

MODELS, INC. #1 (of 4)
Written by PAUL TOBIN
Pencils by VICENC VILLAGRASSA
Cover by SCOTT CLARK
Fashion Week is always a hectic time for models, and this year is no exception. Between escaped wolves, robbery attempts, and overly friendly police officers, Mary Jane Watson, Patsy Walker, Jill Jerold, Chili Storm and Millicent (Millie the Model)
Collins are testing the limits of their endurance. But when a brilliant young set designer is found murdered with three bullet holes in his back, and Millie proves to be the prime suspect, the models are forced to play detective in order to save one of their own!
32 PGS./ Rated A ...$3.99

Who the heck is Toni Turner and why did she replace MJ?

And for legality this is the original cover for Models, Inc #1.

Comments

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

Hmm...taking out Mary Jane. That's kinda stupid. I though originally it might be to make sure to have MJ appear in Spidey first but she's appearing that month anyway in ASSM.

[sandoz_iscariot.insanejournal.com]

Dammit, I want MJ. >:|

Ugh, and that cover just had to remind me of Jackpot.

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

And here's the cover from 2 which had MJ on it.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/images/solicits/marvelcomics/200903/MODELSINC002.jpg

[foxhack.insanejournal.com]

That's not LAND! You tricked me!

[neuhallidae.insanejournal.com]

::squint:: Did they use Taylor Swift for the cover, or am I seeing things?

[mullon.insanejournal.com]

Wasn't this some stupid show in Fox?

[seriousfic.insanejournal.com]

So, is this the millionth time the "cover of a magazine/cover of a comic" thing has been done or is it just me?

[box_in_the_box.insanejournal.com]

Marvel has a really weirdly creepy schizophrenic mentality about MJ.

On the one hand, everyone in Marvel editorial who seems to be in charge practically foams at the mouth when they mention her, because how dare that dirty whore Steal Peter's love away from his sainted Gwen (which only makes Quesada's insistence that Gwen/Norman in "Sins Past" is still canon seem all the more bizarre, since he seems to hate MJ as much as anybody), and yet, they've gone out of their way to turn MJ into Spider-Man's Lois Lane, to the point that NON-comics fans are actually the MOST likely to see her as Peter's Only Love. It's like, they WISH they could disappear her forever, but they CAN'T, and it's giving them ... well, MJ Derangement Syndrome. :)

[thanekos.insanejournal.com]

given that victor von doom's been showing up in a lot of evil plots to date (mentions of a Von Doom device in the Red Skull's... thing, plus what he's got going with Loki and Dracula), I half expect him to be involved in this too.

[rabican.insanejournal.com]

Wow, I could swear these exact same cover designs have been done before, but I can't place them. Anyone?

Also, wtf on writing out Mary Jane, but I can't say I'm surprised.

[04nbod.insanejournal.com]

Models? Divas? Cripes!

[milleniumrex.insanejournal.com]

Honestly, I think there's a non-sinister answer to this. The Marvel solicits for Spider-man this month have MJ making her return to ASM. The odds are, Marvel didn't want her appearing in two books because they wanted the Spider-man writers to have control over her editorial direction. Whatever that is. *shudder*

[ashez2ashes.insanejournal.com]

Models and Divas... ookay Marvel. The models thing could make a funny spoof under the right writer, but that's obviously not where they're going...