Liefeld Tries to Get Marvel to Reprint Supreme

Rob Liefeld attempted to persuade Marvel to publish Supreme from Marvel's ICON imprint, stating that Mark Millar helped the pitch and promised to write the first arc. Liefeld states he also discussed the possibility of publishing Alan Moore's Supreme stories at Marvel with a different artist for the whole run. Marvel turned him down. Liefeld reports this was over a naming conflict with the property Supreme Power from MAX. (It should be noted that Marvel are happy to publish the Powers book from Icon however).

It is likely that such a move would have created considerable hostility from Alan Moore, who has opposed his work being published by Marvel, and "Supreme" artist Rick Veitch who claims that Rob Liefeld has neither returned original art or compensated him for losing it.

Micah Ian Wright lied about his Ranger background

Micah Ian Wright (the writer of Stormwatch: Team Achilles) was an Army Ranger who had seen his fair share of action. Raised a staunch Republican, he became a strong liberal after how he saw the Republican-led US government use its army. Or so he had always claimed. While doing a press run for his book You Back The Attack! We'll Bomb Who We Want he claimed to The Washington Post that he was an Army Ranger.

The Post ran an article exposing Wright at about the same time that Wright wrote an apology letter for his actions. There is some debate as to whether the Post planned to print the article and so Wright apologized or if he planned on apologizing and contacted the Post to let them know the truth.

Alias' Anal Sex Scene

Marvel was unveiling its new mature reader line MAX and one of the first books coming out was the Brian Michael Bendis written Alias, which was said to feature an anal sex scene featuring Jessica Jones, the former Spider-Woman, and Luke Cage. An instant uproar came out. American Color Graphics, a comic printer based in Sylacauga, Alabama stopped the presses once they learned of the scene.

When the issue finally came out most were shocked to find that the scene was not very explicit or graphic, instead consisting of close-ups of Jessica's face and captions of her inner monologue. Rather than being a degrading publicity stunt as first accused, the scene was motivated by the story and had greater implications for her relationship with Luke Cage.

Marvel Declares Bankruptcy

Marvel issues a press release declaring they've filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

They tried to go around Diamond and self-distribute. Only the market collapsed and they were left with a huge amount of product. The bubble had burst. The Gimmick Age was over.

Age of Apocalypse

Marvel killed off Professor Xavier and all hell broke loose.