thepopa: Making Mine Marvel

John Popa (

thepopa) wrote,
@ 2008-01-05 23:56:00

Making Mine Marvel
A message board asked the fairly basic 'if you were EIC of Marvel or DC who would you put on the books' question and, with time on my hands, I whipped up this basic Marvel list.

I think these books would be pretty keen.

Core Marvel books to me:

Amazing Spider-Man
Captain America
The Avengers
The Fantastic Four
The Hulk
The X-Men
Thor
Wolverine
Daredevil

Books that aren't core that I'd make core:

Sub-Mariner
The New Mutants
The New Warriors
Ms. Marvel

And we're off ...

Amazing Spider-Man: Written by Jeff Parker, pencilled by Paul Pelletier.

Captain America: Written by Mark Waid, pencilled by Dale Eaglesham.

The Avengers: Written by Abnett and Lanning, pencilled by Barry Kitson.

The Fantastic Four: Written and drawn by Steve Rude.

The Hulk: Written by Warren Ellis, pencilled by Dale Keown.

The Uncanny X-Men: Written by Grant Morrison, pencilled by Phil Jimenez.

The Mighty Thor: Written by Warren Ellis, pencilled by Collen Doran.

Wolverine: Written by Chuck Dixon, pencilled by Steve Epting.

Daredevil: Written by David Lapham, pencilled by Lee Weeks.

Sub-Mariner: Written by Walt Simonson, pencilled by Butch Guice.

The New Mutants: Written by Mark Waid, pencilled by Cliff Chiang.

The New Warriors: Written by Kurt Busiek, pencilled by Sean Chen.

Ms. Marvel: Written by Kurt Busiek, pencilled by Matt Haley.

Spectacular Spider-Man: (Yes, I like TWO Spidey books!) Written by Matt Fraction, pencilled by Jim Cheung.

And I feel like there should be a Captain Marvel book but I'm not firm on the team yet. Jim Starlin just seems too lazy a pick :)

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	chrisarrant 2008-01-06 06:20 pm UTC (link)
	I did one of these awhile back. I can't find it, but yeah ... it's a well of time that has trapped me on numerous occassions. I remember Darwyn Cooke & Chris Sprouse on Fantastic Four. I half-heartedly did a Wildstorm one but it's not finished. (Reply to this)(Thread)

thepopa
2008-01-06 06:34 pm UTC (link)

This only took a few minutes, really. I didn't *totally* dig in the way I could have.

In some cases, these aren't necessarily books I'd be dying to read as much as I think they're the right move for the titles from a company perspective.

DC would be tougher for me since I don't have that long-term investment in the DCU, I didn't start reading DC until I was in college and haven't read a whole lot before that, other than some of the obvious stuff.

Widlstorm .... hmmmmmm.

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chrisarrant
2008-01-06 06:57 pm UTC (link)

Going back to your list, I'm interested with your push on making the "core" marvel titles. From my viewpoint, the core titles are the patriachs of the family of titles and editorial viewpoints and spin-offs of such. Here's my vision as to what the core titles of Marvel are:

Uncanny X-Men, which carry all the X-titles plus Wolverine and others
The New Avengers, which carries MIght Avengers, Ms. Marvel and others....
The Amazing Spider-Man
Daredevil which carry Immortal Iron Fist, and the MK line of Punisher and others....
Fantastic Four
Annihilation, which bring with it Novaand some more TBA
Captain America
The Hulk, which bings with it the Warbound series, Incredible Hercules.

I'd really like to see a Sub-Mariner series work, and stepping back, ongoing series for other Marvel stalwarts including Captain Marvel and Doctor Strange.

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thepopa
2008-01-06 07:11 pm UTC (link)

To me, the titles I have listed are the main Marvel characters and concepts. The Avengers are the Super Bowl super heroes in the public eye, the FF are the pop culture mad scientists, the X-Men are the edgier, less popular groups. The New Warriors and The New Mutants are the younger versions of The Avengers and X-Men concepts, those concepts seen through the eyes of aspiring heroes. I think those 'new' titles help establish the top title and vice versa.

The single titles are, to me, the 'big seven' type heroes of the Marvel U. They're the most merchandised and recognized main characters with full character origins and motivations that can sustain ongoing titles. I'm a firm believer that those books should always be on the racks. Everyone recognizes them to an extent and that could lead to sales.

Ms. Marvel is there primarily to give Marvel a Wonder Woman type female icon character and I don't think any other character really fits the bill. Most of Marvel's stronger female characters are in the X-family and, to me, none really seem strong enough to carry ongoing titles. She Hulk was the other possibility but, well, I just didn't think she was credible enough.

Sub Mariner is there because I think he brings a different attitude as a character and because I think he opens himself up to more adventure-based stories. I mean, I'm not dreaming of another Namor title where he bickers with surface dwellers non-stop. Let him travel the world on his own and find monsters and adventure and what not, in the interest of Atlantis and his people.

To me, this group is the titles Marvel should always have that they can then branch off from.

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	incogvito 2008-01-07 04:34 pm UTC (link)
	check these out: Marvel DC (Reply to this)(Thread)

	thepopa 2008-01-07 05:45 pm UTC (link)
	Can I ask why you have Jay Faerber on SHIELD? It's just not a connection I would have made on my own. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	incogvito 2008-01-07 07:13 pm UTC (link)
	I based it on Noble Causes, really. I think Jay has a good head for...hierarchy. He can really put a personal feel to it. Keep in mind that the SHIELD of '06 isn't the SHIELD of '08, so I might have to say let Rucka at it...even though he's probably burned out on spy comics (Reply to this)(Parent)

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