Marvel Epic is off the hook. I'm surprised that it took so long before Marvel finally allowed its fans a crack at writing some of their favorite characters. I was even more surprised after PJ told me that Roy Thomas, one of the first fans of the genre, used his fandom as a catapult into his comic career.
I mean, for years Marvel was always open to seeing new artists and trying to find the next big thing that they could sign, you know, the artists who were busting at the seams to be discovered. Alas, writers had no such in with the company. All they could do was hope and pray to get noticed through some other means such as writing television, movies, novels, or doing smaller or independent comic work.
Now Marvel is just as open to receiving the work of writers as it is to artists. They're hoping to find some diamond in the rough (for I am sure that hundreds of people are going to turn in scripts that are just dreadful), some author whose vision of the Marvel universe and storytelling will take comicdom to that next plateau. And I am confident that just such a writer is out there.
For you see, that's what is truly great about this opportunity; it allows the world to finally get a taste of some of my writing. That's right boys and girls and children of all ages, I'm going to be throwing my hat in the ring. I'm gonna put my money where my mouth is and just hope that Marvel doesn't tell me to go ahead and munch on those dead presidents.
Only time and Bill Jemas will tell.
On a mission from God,
Guy Ryder
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