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TweetA curious but interesting move today, as Marvel and Hyperion have just announced that they will be releasing a series of YA novels this year based on some of Marvel’s most prominent female heroes. So far Rogue and She-Hulk books have been announced, to the delight of Dan Slott. This is one of the first [...]
To quote Turanga Leela — “Oh, Lord…”
so these are not comics…ummm yay?
(If Steve can keep saying things like this about Darkstar, I can keep commenting them about Magik, right?)
You know who would be perfect for one of these? Illyana. Set it in the early New Mutants period: she’s befriending the New Mutants, trying to keep her demonic side a secret… I’d buy it. (Might even give the Rogue one a go if reviews are decent.)
What would it be called? SOULSWORD?
DISNEY LOVES PRINCESSES. I TOLD YOU SO!
“What would it be called? SOULSWORD?”
I have multiple options for titles, and Hyperion can choose from them as soon as they hire me to write the book. ;-)
Rogue isn’t much of a princess
Not that they won’t have crossover appeal, but I think these books are being marketed toward adults.
The YA market is a rapidly growing area of publishing. In the last 5 years a number of YA specific imprints have been set up at major publishers. Disney and Marvel are obviously keen to tap into that market, attract younger readers to the characters and hopefully there will be some bleed so they start reading comics, seeing the movies, buying the merchandise, watch the TV shows etc. It’s a sensible move, but I do wonder about the She Hulk and The City approach of the first. There again I’m not the target audience so it might fly off the shelves.
They’re quite nice covers except for that ugly Marvel logo.
Yeah, that Marvel logo is a visual stumbling block. And perhaps they should use a different font for the titles. “Rogue Touch” and “She-Hulk” are written in the same typeface. Unless that’s intentional?
I think this is a pretty great idea, and it’s nice to see they resisted doing a Morbius romance novel, that would have been groan-inducing.
They could totally do a Marvel Princesses line, actually. Crystal the Inhuman for one.
[...] but it came together last week when Marvel Comics announced that they are launching a series of YA novels, based on their superhero characters. The first two announced are She-Hulk and Rogue, written by [...]