Game of Thrones’ Author George R.R. Martin to Launch Marvel Comics Series

[Rotadom]

Martin's 'Wild Cards' anthology is coming to Marvel.

Marvel is adapting Martin’s first Wild Cards book, which kicked off a long-running anthology series in 1987 with stories by Martin, Howard Waldrop and Roger Zelazny.

“As my fans may already know, the Wild Cards World holds a special place in my heart,” Martin said. “So to have the privilege of announcing that an industry titan like Marvel is going to produce the narrative from the beginning as a comic book brings me no end of joy.”

The Wild Cards series tells the story of an alternate post-World War II history where Earth is home to super-powered individuals. When a human is infected with the alien Wild Card virus, the odds are that they will be killed — referred to as “drawing the black queen.” Of those that survive, the bulk becomes “jokers” — left with some strangely mutated form. A lucky few are “aces,” those gifted with superpowers they can put to use towards heroic goals … or villainous ones.

Writer Paul Cornell and artist Mike Hawthorne have signed on to create the comics for Marvel.

 

[spacekowboy]

Let me guess: Everyone's going to die.

 

[Saint_Ann]

The Hodor... the Hodor.

 

[PaxNurgle]

Naah, he'll start working on the comic book series, then after the fifth edition he'll just stop working on it and leave it hanging.
Then meanwhile a TV series will appear based on the comic book storyline, but since he stopped writing it halfway through, the TV producers will just come up with their own unsatisfying ending themselves.

 

[Champakian]

This is why I don't read non-fiction...



Nothing says mouth-breather like doubling down on stupid.

 

[Rotadom]

This is why I don't read non-fiction...



Nothing says mouth-breather like doubling down on stupid.

Do you think Wild Cards is non-fiction

 

[Champakian]

Slip of the pen...

should have been fantasy-fiction.

 

[Rotadom]

If you say so.

Wild Cards is a series of science fiction superhero shared universe anthologies, mosaic novels, and solo novels. They are written by a collection of more than forty authors (referred to as the "Wild Cards Trust") and are edited by George R. R. Martin and Melinda M. Snodgrass. Set largely during an alternate history of post-World War II United States, the series follows humans who contracted the Wild Card virus, an alien virus that rewrites DNA and mutates survivors. Those who acquire crippling and/or repulsive physical conditions are known as Jokers, while those who acquire superhuman abilities are known as Aces, and those few who acquire minor, insignificant powers not worthy of being called aces are known as Deuces.

 

[Saint_Ann]

I thought the ending worked.

 

[Dribble]

Naah, he'll start working on the comic book series, then after the fifth edition he'll just stop working on it and leave it hanging.
Then meanwhile a TV series will appear based on the comic book storyline, but since he stopped writing it halfway through, the TV producers will just come up with their own unsatisfying ending themselves.

Summed up to perfection.