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Is The New Marvelman Writer Revealed?

By | January 15th, 2010
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On July 24th 2009, Marvel announced that they had acquired the rights to Marvelman and would be bringing him into their universe soon. This excited a lot of people, and I mean A LOT. But they did not announce who would be writing him and when it would come out. Well, have they revealed it coyly on Twitter?

Note: This article is entirely speculation.

Earlier, Tom Brevoort, the executive editor of Marvel Comics, tweeted:

On another note, attended a cool Marvelman meeting today where Neil Gaiman told us how his last 2 unfinished storylines will end.

Eh? His last 2 unfinished storylines you say? Does this mean he will be coming on as the full time writer?

Not necessarily.

Didn’t say that [Gaiman is doing more Marvelman] at all–just that he was at a meeting with us and told us how his original stories were to have ended. Nothing’s set in stone yet–this was just a general Marvelman meeting. But very cool to hear about. No, sorry, didn’t mean to give that impression [that Gaiman will finish his Marvelman stories]. We’re still working Marvelman out. But very cool to hear. [Gaiman] didn’t give anything just yet, he just told us how the story he was working on in 1993 would have ended.

BUT THAT’S NOT ALL! After this, Fables writer Bill Willingham chimed in with a:

I’m torn…On one hand it will be grand to see more Marvelman. On the other hand, when the new work starts, Fables loses Mark Buckingham for a while.

Mark Buckingham, of course, is the artist to Fables. But what does this mean, Mr. Willingham? Did Marvel steal him from you?

No, Marvelman was/is a previous commitment of Bucky’s that predates Fables. No talent swiping going on. And just to be clear, I don’t believe talent poaching occurs, because it implies these people belong to books and companies. Not the case. Freelancing means just that. Free to go and work where you want. Okay, lecture over. Looking forward to more Marvelman.

Hmm. So Neil Gaiman as a writer with Mark Buckingham as the artist? I could see that. Heck, I would LOVE that. I don’t think it’s necessarily the most implausible thing either. Marvel brought in Gaiman to work with artist John Romita Jr. on the reboot/re-telling of the Eternals story, and that was met with great success and popularity. We were also given the book 1602 when Gaiman teamed up with Andy Kubert. Gaiman is a very talented writer, and anyone who has read his various work over the past years (which span movies, television, books, and graphic novels) knows this. I’d love a Marvelman Gaiman story, but I imagine it’d be just a mini in order for him to finish what he had already started.

Of course, Gaiman tweeted that he then had dinner with Chip Kidd, Art Spiegelman, and John Cassaday… so who knows. Maybe it could be a big collaboration art book! OMG, internet! O. M. G.

Thanks to Robot6 for the conversation transcript (source)


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