So we’re just doing it here, in THE MARVELS.īusiek: The idea was to do a mini-crossover between IRON MAN, CAPTAIN AMERICA: SENTINEL OF LIBERTY, MARVEL UNIVERSE and maybe AVENGERS that was loosely called War Dragons, that would tell the story of a war in Siancong (back then still called Sin-Cong) over a span of years, since each of those books took place in a different time period. But it wound up not happening then-and now, 20 years later, there’s an even greater need for it timeline-wise. The idea was first floated there as something that Kurt and Roger Stern and Mark Waid were going to establish across a few different titles.

Tom Brevoort: The specific idea of the Siancong War goes back to the late 1990s when we were working on AVENGERS and other titles.

But that never seemed to gel right in my head, and I was busy on other things, so we never pursued it. The title that made the most sense to me was THE MARVELS, and I had some dumb idea about some mysterious new character-a controller who pulled all these characters together, like it or not. I told Tom maybe there could be a book like that, one where multiple characters could come together, even if they’re not a team-and like in a Tom Clancy novel, there could be multiple threads, so characters could take part even if they didn’t meet the others. Still, I liked the concept of a book that would have lots of the major stars of Marvel, whether they belonged in a team together or not.

Kurt Busiek: Years back, when I was working on AVENGERS, there were people who wanted Spider-Man and Wolverine to join-which they’ve done since!-but I didn’t really like the idea. Where did the general concept for THE MARVELS come from? We spoke with Busiek, Cinar and Brevoort about the unique genesis of THE MARVELS and what it takes to create a series that encompasses every character and aspect of the Marvel Universe.

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