Four Seasons
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scans_dailyIfanboy have a story about Marvel's Season One Initiative
Taking a page (give or take a few hundred) from DC's Earth One line (whose Superman: Earth One was a breakout success), Marvel has announced a line of original graphic novels featuring some of their most popular characters and Daredevil. They're calling it Season One.
Though Marvel claims to have sought out younger talent with fresh takes on the characters, you'll recognize a few promising names.
It all starts in February with Fantastic Four: Season One by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and David Marquez.
And I've stopped paying attention. Fantastic Four, written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa? Sold. You'll remember that he's the man who wrote Marvel Knights 4. And it was good. USA Today has art previews, but there's no way to actually post them up here. The raison d'etre of Season One does sound a lot like the Astonishing Line, but in OGN format. I'm assuming that that means that you can buy them in bookshops and Amazon, instead of your local comic shop.
From covered
by John R. Holmes
Taking a page (give or take a few hundred) from DC's Earth One line (whose Superman: Earth One was a breakout success), Marvel has announced a line of original graphic novels featuring some of their most popular characters and Daredevil. They're calling it Season One.
Though Marvel claims to have sought out younger talent with fresh takes on the characters, you'll recognize a few promising names.
It all starts in February with Fantastic Four: Season One by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and David Marquez.
And I've stopped paying attention. Fantastic Four, written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa? Sold. You'll remember that he's the man who wrote Marvel Knights 4. And it was good. USA Today has art previews, but there's no way to actually post them up here. The raison d'etre of Season One does sound a lot like the Astonishing Line, but in OGN format. I'm assuming that that means that you can buy them in bookshops and Amazon, instead of your local comic shop.
From covered
by John R. Holmes
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Date: 2011-07-20 08:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-20 09:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-20 09:15 am (UTC)Also, I really don't know what to say about this. I hated Superman Earth One and could not understand how it wasn't panned heavily all across the comics-internet, but most of its errors did seem to be common 'DC-mistakes', and I do get the feeling that if Marvel tries the same, the result might be much more enjoyable.
Will have to wait and see I guess.
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Date: 2011-07-20 07:30 pm (UTC)It all fits.
Matt Murdock is John Zoidberg.
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Date: 2011-07-20 11:50 am (UTC)Somehow.. It feels kind-of creatively bereft. I know Brevoort's saying that the books will only follow the established stories in broad strokes, but still. Remove the characters too far from some established concepts and they aren't the characters they're supposed to be, anymore.
On the other hand, Marvel are proving they can do this better than DC already. DC has Superman: Earth One, and we've heard nothing since then about anything, save we know Johns is doing Batman: Earth One. Marvel's got four books lined up to come out in consecutive months, and a second wave of four seems inevitable, as do new stories with the first four. Seriously. That's like... Eight books or more versus one. It's this kind of thing that displays why DC gets crucified in terms of sales, sometimes.
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Date: 2011-07-20 12:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-20 12:45 pm (UTC)It's not ment for current customers.
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Date: 2011-07-20 01:11 pm (UTC)I'd make a snarky comment but I am excited to see what they dish out for this.
Also, most popular characters and Daredevil...
*giggle*
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Date: 2011-07-20 07:07 pm (UTC)Ben Fail
Date: 2011-07-20 08:24 pm (UTC)I also would like to see them refer how Ben's physical condition was constantly in flux during the early years....the instability of his physical condition was an ongoing thing....he just didn't pop out as "Teddy Bear Ben"....in FF#1 through issue #4 he looked like a walking cow-flop, a lumbering, shambling heap of homage to Kirby's own work on all those monster mags he did, plus an artistic step forward.....OK, you've seen the monster....now we're going to break your heart and make you love him.
I'm guessing that, at a jumping off points, nobody wants to have to deal with the issue of Ben's painful and pitiable physique. But who jumps on the bandwagon with a $24.49 graphic novel? Who do they think is going to buy this, and what does it add?
I know these "jumping on" points seem important to the publishers, but they just keep reading as cheap "Batman: Year One" knock-offs.
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Date: 2011-07-20 10:43 pm (UTC)Imagine how tough it would be to pick up FF 8, and understand what the hell is going on. These books are for people who want to read a Fantastic Four, Spider-man (or even a Daredevil book) and have it easy to follow.
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Date: 2011-07-21 03:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-21 12:25 pm (UTC)(sigh)
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Date: 2011-07-21 04:08 pm (UTC)Marvel Adventures was an All Ages title, aimed at kids. It was released in single issues through the direct market and collected in digest format.
Season One is not all ages, and is aimed at people who want to read an X-Men, Fantastic Four story without needing to know a lot about the characters and their backstory. It will be available as an original graphic novel through bookstores.
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Date: 2011-07-21 08:26 pm (UTC)I'd be glad to be proven wrong, but I think Marvel Adventures appealed to a much larger potential customer base than these will, which strike me as boutique editions for existing collectors.