Tuesday, December 23, 2003

A story for the Ages: Although various and sundry blogs were all over Marvel's solicitation for "Marvel Age: Spider-Man" #1, ICv2 is the only comics news site to take note of it:

"Back in Hollywood's golden era, the Warner Brothers studio (which now owns DC Comics) used to remake its hits periodically with new 'contemporary' casts and 'today's highest production values.' Sometimes it worked, as in the case of John Huston's film of The Maltese Falcon, which was the studio's third version of Dashiell Hammett's classic detective novel. But more often than not the subsequent versions turned out to be pretty weak tea -- Castle on the Hudson versus 20,000 Years in Sing-Sing. It will be interesting to see how Marvel reinterprets its past, and whether or not contemporary audiences will respond to updated versions of the comics that put Marvel on the map."