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The Marvels #9 - "The Forgotten War"
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In some ways it’d be more fun to do it at DC, because you could establish how it all fits together. Not that the next guy to visit the past would pay any attention, but that’ll very likely be true of THE MARVELS, too. -- Kurt Busiek
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The Marvels #8 - "Almost Positive"
Mar. 2nd, 2022 09:25 pmlaughing_tree
I think the Cockrum Ms. Marvel/Warbird costume is one of the best superhero costumes ever, though later artists liked to draw her breasts and butt slipping out of it, which was not remotely appropriate to the character. It doesn’t really fit who she is now though, so if I were writing CAPTAIN MARVEL these days, I’d introduce a new character in that costume, or something substantially like it. -- Kurt Busiek
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There was a line in there where Iron Man called Aarkus “Mister Grand High Four-Twenty,” but Marvel made me cut it. -- Kurt Busiek
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Lady Lotus was introduced in Invaders, back in the 1970s, and for some reason, when I was reading those books as a teenager, I thought it'd be interesting if she was immortal, and could show up again in the present day. And then in the 80s, Steve Gerber and Al Milgrom introduced a Los Angeles crime figure named Lotus Newmark, and I immediately thought, 'What if that's Lady Lotus again?' So when Roger Stern wrote the Avengers Two mini-series in 2000, I suggested to him that he reveal that Lady Lotus and Lotus Newmark were, in fact, the same character, already thinking she'd be useful to my plans for a Sin-Cong War. See, it really does go that far back! -- Kurt Busiek
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The Marvels #5 - "I Might Know a Guy"
Oct. 28th, 2021 12:30 pmlaughing_tree
When I’m writing a character, I don’t bring up past stories out of some sense of needing to mention everything — I look at the character’s past as a history and look at how it shaped them, and if things come up that they would react to because of that past, then they react, because treating the characters as people beats treating them as empty constructs whose history can be dismissed as irrelevant. [...] Many writers do seem to work like that, but if it was a requirement I wouldn’t write Big Two comics, because I wouldn’t be interested. I like the novelistic approach to character history — the “shared” part of shared universe. I don’t have any interest in the Colorform approach. -- Kurt Busiek
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tripodeca113
"There had been an attempt years before, to do a sequel to Marvels, but it rather famously fell apart. I took my story elsewhere, and Marvel turned what had been done so far into a miniseries called Code of Honor, and for a while, it seemed like that would be it...But then, people at Marvel noticed that while other books would rise and fall in sales over the years, Marvels just kept steadily selling, and selling, and selling. And wouldn't it be nice if there was another book to go with it?
I wasn't interested in just doing a sequel for the sake of doing a sequel, but as it happened, there was one more Phil Sheldon story Alex Ross and I had in mind, back when we were working on the first series. We called it Epilogue, back then, and figured it'd be about 30 pages long, telling the story of Phil's last days and the return of Maggie...As an epilogue to Marvels, it would have worked just fine, but as a story on its own, it needed some set-up, something that would allow it to stand on its own two feet, as it were. The story that would have been Epilogue is still there, still about 30 pages long...there's just a whole new book leading up to it."
Kurt Busiek
(7.33 out of 22 pages)
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The Marvels #4 - "Ohio's Fine"
Sep. 16th, 2021 06:30 pmlaughing_tree
See, here’s the thing about the villainous genius Dr. Carlo Strange. He had an extensive mad-scientific criminal career before we ever saw him, and was only captured by freak chance. He fought Iron Man once, and then escaped. He’s still out there somewhere. He may be the most successful supervillain in Marvel history. -- Kurt Busiek
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tripodeca113
"As the tenth anniversary of Marvels approached, editor Tom Brevoort suggested to Kurt that he really should consider a follow-up of some sort. The result was Marvels: Eye of The Camera, a new look at Marvel's rich history as published from the 1970's through the 1980's, and an exploration of how those events affected the lives of Phil Sheldon and his family"
Roger Stern
(7.33 out of 22 pages)
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The Marvels #3 - "The Monster Belt"
Jul. 28th, 2021 12:02 amlaughing_tree
The roots of the first arc we’re telling go back over 20 years for me. Back then, I was writing Iron Man, Roger Stern was writing the late, lamented Marvel Universe, and Mark Waid was writing Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty. Each of those books took place in a different time period, and I had an idea for a crossover that’d explore a previously-unknown event: The Sin-Cong War. The idea was that Roger could show how it started, before the Marvel Age had begun, and Mark could show it at its height, and I’d get to explore the modern-day aftermath. -- Kurt Busiek
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Marvels #3- "Judgment Day"
Jul. 3rd, 2021 01:02 pmtripodeca113
"When my mother read this issue -my mother was not a comic book person - her reaction was that it was a nice Cuban missile crisis story...I realized at that point...people who don't know the stories we are referring to are still able to react to the underlying emotions of a story about the end of the world."
Kurt Buisek
15 out of 45 pages
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In some ways it’s like a combination of everything I’ve ever done. At once. Well, maybe not ELVIRA. -- Kurt Busiek
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The Marvel Universe. From before the Big Bang to beyond the End of Time. From the Avengers to the X-Men, from Aarkus to Zzzax, from the Kree Empire to the Dark Dimensions and into the unknown it ranges, vast and deep. And there have been adventures too big for any one series. Until now. -- Title page blurb
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