Ladies and gentlemen…mostly gentlemen, I know, but more and more females getting into comics all the time…I started Monitor Duty just so I could point you all to the big comic book news stories as they broke. The Matt Drudge of comics news, that’s me. Here’s a doozie:

NEWSARAMA – JEMAS OUT OF MARVEL BY JANUARY

That’s right, one-half of the “Quemas troll tag team” is leaving Marvel.

As more than one observer had noted, while Marvel was experiencing a tremendous surge in attention and popularity due to movies based on its franchises, the most recent headlines the comic side of the company had grabbed were due to “gay cowboys and dead princesses.”

Jemas is out. Gone. Barring his getting a job at DC or CrossGen (companies I’d like to work for someday), I don’t see a downside to this!

Oh, I guess there is one: Quesada is staying on. Even that isn’t horrible to me, since I don’t really care about Marvel Comics, but I know many of you do. It does bother me when a Marvel decision hurts the industry in general.

Perhaps Jemas’ departure will cause Quesada to reign in his own antics lest he follow in his friend’s footprints.

All I have to say about this cool news item is: AYYYYYYY!

I’m so happy, I’m going to finally use our Fonzie Fuzzball!