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Comic Book Urban Legends Addendum
Awhile back, I featured an installment that had as one of the legends Peter Gillis’ Strikeforce: Morituri, and whether it was planned as one of the New Universe titles at first.
I said false, because it was always planned as a stand-alone title.
However, Carl Potts has an interesting piece up today on his blog (click here to read it) where he explains that the original premise of the New Universe was similar to say, how Vertigo runs, where it is a line of comics in name only – the titles within would not interact, and that Strikeforce: Morituri WAS one of the comics planned for that line.
Marvel head honcho Jim Shooter soon changed his mind and made it a shared universe, and at that point, Strikeforce: Morituri was out of the New Universe, and it was never part of the New Universe as we know the term now, but for one shining moment, it WAS part of A New Universe.
Thanks a lot for the info, Carl Potts!
4 Comments
Kamino Neko
September 19, 2008 at 4:00 pm
‘New Universe’ is kind of a weird name for something not meant to BE a universe…
R. J. Sterling
September 20, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Perhaps the line would have been called “New UNIVERSES”.
Andrew Perron
September 22, 2008 at 8:58 am
To be fair, it doesn’t say it was originally called that.
ParanoidObsessive
November 22, 2008 at 8:01 pm
It seems odd that Marvel would feel the need to create a new line solely to hold individual properties owned and controlled by the individual creators, considering that was basically what Epic was, and Epic was already around 4 years before New Universe came out. Even allowing for the fact that New Universe was planned in advance, it doesn’t really seem to add up.
Of course, Archie Goodwin was involved with both Epic and New Universe, so maybe Carl Potts is simply misremembering and confusing the two lines?