I hope you guys remember the wildcats animated series theme song and have it stuck in your heads for the rest of the night.
It depends on how the contract was agreed upon.
In Ultraverse's case from why I can remember Marvel was interested in the coloring system studio that Malibu was using. So they bought the company and all its assets that they could.
I am not sure the coloring system was really exclusive to Malibu because Milestone's book around 1996 started using it. In their books they mentioned it. I want to say Static #25 and the Long Hot Summer were the first to have it.
The issue with Ultraverse much like Black Lightening was COMPESATION to the creators. Somebody doesn't want to pay. Especially since Gerard Jones is one of those creators.
Ultimate Universe tossed out Miles Morales. If Wildstorm ended like that we would probably have Grifter, Midnighter or Stormwatch in a movie by now.
Well, it was a nice giant IP's acquisition by AT&T. Lee is fabulously rich now. Can only imagine he's more than fine with whatever DC does/doesn't do with WS. Besides, DC is making moves to be the House of Batman with some Superman.
WW could really use some kind of rouges gallery other than Cheetah. Surely they can flip her some from the WS IP's. Cybernary & Taboo both look good & hasn't done anything in years.
Joe Q, back when he was Marvel's EIC said he wanted to bring back the Ultraverse but the rights were supposed to be shared with Malibu/Marvel and the creators and since they are of creators involved with the Ultraverse it would be a legal and financial nightmare to sort out all of the rights and royalties with all the creators and since some of the creators are not on good terms with Marvel makes it even harder for what is basically a small cult classic line.
The Genesis line The Protectors and their spin-offs Man of Action, The Ferret, Gravestone, and the rest are public domain characters and I don't know who owns the rights to Dinosaurs For Hire and The Ex-Mutants and again for even a smaller cult classic line.
Marvel didn't get what CrossGen was and rebooted it all wrong and failed to get the original creators back to finish the their first crossover and reprint the original series.
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If Jim Lee had to sell Wildstorm I really thought he should have gone to Marvel after reading the WildCats/X-men stories along with the thirteenth issues of Heroes Reborn. Wildstorm meshed well with Marvel characters instead of the feeling of being judged by DC (it seems that way) who have no idea how to use them.
Be yourself everyone is taken !! I'm an X-Man trapped in the DC omniverse
Did anyone here read The Wild Storm by Ellis from a few years back?
I for loved it (overall) and would want to see it established as a Universe. While I did grow up on the original WS, TWS fits better with my tastes today.
Thought the little nods to the original WS universe and re-inventions were sweet. My major gripe was the treatment of Slayton who was one of my favorite charaters in the original.
What did y'all think?
Past that, best version of the IP ever.
Did a lot with a fairly "Small..." corner of the what they could have used.