Marvel Scraps Plan for Comic Book Princess Di
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. comic book publisher has decided to let Princess Diana rest in peace, dropping plans to reincarnate her as a mutant comic superhero this fall, the company said on Thursday.

Marvel Enterprises Inc. said in a statement that "upon reflection" it will remove Diana and all references to the royal family in its upcoming "X-Statix" monthly comics.

The about-face follows a recent announcement by Marvel Comics that it planned to introduce Diana as one of a team of super-powered mutants in a five-series storyline called "Di Another Day."

Company spokespeople were not immediately available to elaborate on the decision.

Diana was to have been a character in a satirical look at fame and pop culture, Marvel said earlier this week.

Buckingham Palace called the idea "utterly appalling" and a "cheap attempt to cash in on Diana's fame and the tragic circumstances surrounding her death."

Marvel is a bunch of pussies. Their suits need to get out of the creative ends way. If I were Pete Milligan (I believe he is the writer of the story) I'd quit posthaste and return back into the folds of DC vertigo, or anywhere else that'd let me have some creative freedom.

Marvel will stand the storm of having an gay cowboy character when there is a big controversy, but when the royals complain they back down.

Since when have we really given two damns about what the royal's think? I think we stopped really caring about that around 1776 or so.

This story was to be satire. SATIRE. I know that's something that isn't really understood in our culture anymore, where everyone goes up in arms over something like South Park or whatever Michael Moore is saying or doing.

It's not like they were going to bring her back so she could have sex with goats or something like that. I wouldnt' think. It's not like Garth Ennis was writing the book.