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Hi Jack - although I wrote to you at the time I'd like to say thanks again for those Doom Patrols you were kind enough to give me a couple of years back. Having read the posts above, my 2 cents:
Marvel Boy is published by Marvel, whose content is bought and paid for by Bill Jemas et al. If Jemas doesn't agree with what any of his writers produce, he has the right to ask for changes. Work-for-hire. It's a business, and he's a businessman.
From what I remember reading about The Filth, this was Morrison's aborted concept for a SHIELD miniseries, as evidenced by their supporting role in Marvel Boy. Morrison can, should he wish, take his Marvel Boy II concept and alter it in the same way.
Morrison, Jemas and Quesada are all notorious for their respective abilities to court controversy and self-publicise, and Rich Johnston has no complaints about being thrown such a curveball knowing this about all three men. This could simply be yet another New Marvel publicity stunt.
Agreeing with Jack and other posters, I think that Marvel Boy, like New X-Men, is Morrison-lite - while interesting, especially the belief-driven spaceship, I consider the concepts to be at the low end of Morrison's output and seem to be jumping-on points for Morrison's other work - which, as a writer, Morrison is likely to do. JG Jones' artwork was excellent and Morrison's widescreen action, for me, surpassed the Bruckheimer/Simpson Authority. Whatever the real story - which I'm sure someone will ask Morrison about when he appears at San Diego - if the second Marvel Boy series isn't published then it doesn't seem like any great loss - the concepts will be used elsewhere and the characters and plotline changed, perhaps to something even better. The pitfalls of working for companies, it would seem. |
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