The response to last week's Marvel Legacy announcements has not been an overly positive one. Bleeding Cool has argued that much of this was down to the marketing of the announcements, the idea of showing all the monthly October titles, including a few new titles, as reflecting comic books of the past was a good one. But marketing it as changing the entire comics industry felt like a wrong step. The only named creator on the books is Greg Pak on Weapon X and it is likely that creator names will have more of an impact. As will story content, the mini-series, that will run around the books and the renumbering of the line to reflect all the series that have come before. The covers are fun, and some of the new titles like Spirits Of Vengeance and Marvel Two-In-One intrigue. Maybe it would have been better to have led with them? And if indeed Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing Captain America, that would have been a pretty good thing to say as well. As it stands, I think Marvel's greatest sin is around presentation.

Well, they get another chance on Thursday. I understand that members of the ComicsPro comic book retailer advocacy group have a group call scheduled with Marvel head honchos editorial, writers and artists this Friday.

UPDATE: It was arranged two weeks ago to be about the flow between Secret Empire, Generations and Marvel Legacy #1.

Though some retailers I have heard from may have other questions to ask…

Will some of these voices be represented?

All of Marvel's real characters are in the Vanishing Point. So are, apparently, their customers. — Ryan Higgins (@RyanHigginsRyan) June 26, 2017

They did it to themselves! They claimed Friday would "CHANGE EVERYTHING" and it's literally 98% the same titles and characters. https://t.co/QxCmHhmhp7 — Ryan Higgins (@RyanHigginsRyan) June 26, 2017

Marvel announces Legacy, and the only reaction is a customer who drops all his Marvel titles! https://t.co/Y8DmOx6mwv — Ryan Higgins (@RyanHigginsRyan) June 26, 2017