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MARVEL CHECKLIST
Der ULTIMATIVE LEITFADEN durch das MARVEL UNIVERSUM
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Erstellt: 05.01.08, 23:29 Betreff: Re: MARVEL NEWS TICKER: Neue Taskmaster Mini |
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bad signal WARREN ELLIS
Thinking out loud:
I need to come up with a new Marvel project, as I'm reaching the end on a few things up there. I had come up with a book to do with Mike Wieringo, but since Mike died I can't really work up the enthusiasm to do it with anyone else, it was very much written *for* Mike.
And I'm at my wit's end, to be honest.
I now have an entire folder full of aborted ideas. See, my job at Marvel is to be the mad scientist in the basement, bringing old properties back to life. The job isn't to create new things (and I do that elsewhere, I don't have to prove my bona fides at creating new books), but to make the old properties live again. And I'm hitting the point where I can't find anything to get up on its feet.
The sf stuff at Marvel is covered. The remaining trademark books are pretty lifeless stuff -- things like NIGHTWATCH (google it) or things I wouldn't otherwise want to go near. There are some interesting items - LEGION OF NIGHT is a fine title, for instance -- but everything I come up with reads like LEAGUE OF EX GENTLEMEN Lite. And Marvel has little luck with occult books in any case.
By "trademark books," I mean books that Marvel have already published. NEXTWAVE was a name that Marvel owned for a group, but the trademark was NEXTWAVE: AGENTS OF H.A.T.E. Because someone already owned the trademark NEXTWAVE. It's always better, in these instances, to start with a trademark that Marvel controls.
Compounding the problem is my own intent, really. Right now, I don't want to do anything that looks backwards too much. Which is probably impossible. But after reading BLACK DOSSIER (thanks, Scott)...well, if I wasn't already so far ahead on IGNITION CITY, I'd be binning it, just because BLACK DOSSIER constitutes such a toxic overdose of Farmerian retro/meta.
Friends have been torturing me a bit over this, hurling Rom and the Micronauts at me like flaming turds. I thought about Shang-Chi for a second, but that book's useless to me without Fu Manchu, and Marvel don't have the Rohmer license anymore. Joe Straczynski's doing a bunch of the 1940s characters.
I will continue to crap on about this all weekend.
-- W
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