This Fund It! will be shorter than usual, because to be truthful the work has been done for us. It’s a rare occurence that we are so lucky as to hear of a probable pitch as opposed to writing our own, but sometimes you hear of a proposed pitch that grips your ears enough to want to – pardon the pun – fund it.
So what is that pitch? Earlier this week, Multiversity favorite Brian Wood posted on his tumblr:
Shortly before the decision was made known that DC was closing the Wildstorm imprint, I was asked to pitch a line-wide “new direction” for Wildstorm… not a reboot, but just what would come next after the World’s End thing. A year’s worth of stories for three titles. I was so into it, and now the pitch sits in the vault with all the rest of its friends.
This post was of course mumbles and various groans from MC, due to one simple fact: we would have loved to read this. I can’t speak for everyone on the site, but I do know that I haven’t read The Authority in quite some time, and that was admittedly one of the best comics ever when it came out to bat literally swinging. If you put a politically conscious writer like Brian Wood behind a book like that, with his infinitely personal style of writing, the Authority could have assuredly risen to new heights. I can only imagine which other titles would comprise the 3, but I suppose it’s safe to assume Gen13 and Wildcats might be the main titles with DV8 and the reformed Stormwatch playing roles as well.
It’s a shame we’ll never see this. Wildstorm was once a premiere imprint that you could barely escape, with some of the hottest names in comics working on it. By the time we got World’s End, it was operating for a much more niche-based audience, featuring a lot of licensed comics and the actions of Authority and wildcats no longer making headlines. A talented writer like Brian Wood, if given charge for the direction of all the titles, could create an interesting interwoven universe again, in the same way that Marvel is trying to revitalize their Ultimate universe by assembling a tight knit team of writers to collaborate together. Brian Wood would be doing what is taking 3 writers at Marvel to do, and he’s definitely the kind of guy with the moxie to pull it off.
So for Fund It this week, rather than explain to you in full detail the comic we’d like to see, all we’ll say is – DC, let this out of the vault. We’ll help fund it.
