Mark Waid writes the History of Marvel

[Digifiend]

He did Marvels 2 which is just 80's stuff, wrote a few pages for Zub Thunderbolts, did a Defenders one-shot. Meanwhile an assload of events and retcons have been dropped that Mark Waid was around for and is familiar with. It would be unreasonable to have Kurt do so much research for six issues when you already have several continuity professors on deck.

Ah yeah, issue 10, LGY #200. Doesn't change the point though. He's not familiar with modern events, Waid is.

[Rosebunse]

An editor looked at one of the Marvel wiki pages and realized that it's a mess.

[jackolover]

I don’t know how you could write Marvel History in 6 issues. It must be like Marvel Saga, a précis with scant detail, just passing reference. I don’t know how you could make it gravitas unless you made it a completely different premise to what is known now.

[comicscollector]

Kurt Busiek wrote a new Untold Tale of Spider-Man in Amazing Spider-Man Annual#37 as well.
My three choices to write a limited series about the Marvel History are :Kurt Busiek,Roger Stern and Mark Waid.So Mark Waid writing this new comic book is great,story wise.
Javier Rodriguez on the art is a interesting choice to be the artist,Rodriguez illustrations are cool.
Will be interesting to know more details about this,whether it will be similiar to Marvels or a more continuity driven story about the history of the Marvel Universe.

[Mike]

expect retcons.

That's why I'm not wasting my money on this.

[WebLurker]

So, this's a comic book story and not a reference book?

[Snoop Dogg]

So, this's a comic book story and not a reference book?

Marvels for millennials.

[ImperiusWrecked]

So, this's a comic book story and not a reference book?

From what I understood I thought it to be another version of Marvels where everything is told about what happened so far in the Marvel U. I think it is a comic book?

[WebLurker]

Marvels for millennials.

From what I understood I thought it to be another version of Marvels where everything is told about what happened so far in the Marvel U. I think it is a comic book?

I like Marvels, so I'm curious, although I'm not really sure I want something that'll be taking it's cues from OMD in regards to Spider-Man.

[Revolutionary_Jack]

I like Marvels, so I'm curious, although I'm not really sure I want something that'll be taking it's cues from OMD in regards to Spider-Man.

That's among the main problems I have with Waid writing this. Still if he's doing the whole Marvel Universe I imagine he won't touch Spider-man much and at best just scant his early adventures and so on.

[Seren]

I'm all in on this just for the fact that Rodriguez is doing the art.

Same. He's gonna draw the hell out of this. I can't wait.

[Byakko]

Marvels for millennials.

Feels a bit too late considering millenials are in the 30+ range. Heck I read Marvels a couple of years after it was published cos I just needed to get old enough to read it and understand it. It's not exactly out of the age range for millenials to read it when it was contemporary.

[WebLurker]

That's among the main problems I have with Waid writing this. Still if he's doing the whole Marvel Universe I imagine he won't touch Spider-man much and at best just scant his early adventures and so on.

Could be.

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[Snoop Dogg]

Nice depiction of Galactus.



For some reason, the Sphinx is here...



TYRANNUS!

[Frontier]

This reminds me of that encyclopedia Archie comics put out a few years ago (that was then made pointless after they rebooted their continuity).

I feel like Marv Wolfman and George Perez did something similar for DC.