Epic update: Yesterday's announcement that four of the planned Epic titles would be combined in an anthology left some question about the fate of Marc Campbell's "The Northwood Saga" one-shot.

But today ComiX-Fan reports the title won't be published by Marvel.

"The reason I received from Marvel is that, in light of recent changes, this is not the type of story that Marvel wants to do under the Epic imprint," Campbell told X-Fan this morning. "Northwood Saga is an epic fantasy, featuring a rotating cast of elves, dwarfs, trolls, wizards, and tragic heroes and heroines. The villains of the story are the humans, who wage neverending war against what they call 'monsters', and the book explores some of the consequences of this. It's a creator-owned project with all-original characters, and it was not set to take place in the Marvel Universe. The book was never officially scheduled, but there was talk of it coming out in 2004."

And I meant to link to this earlier but forgot: At Broken Frontier, Matt Maxwell confesses to succumbing to the Epic hype. It's an interesting perspective, written before yesterday's revelation.