Tom Brevoort talks concerning the time Alan Moore might need written Marvel’s Ant-Man comedian ebook, however they had been apprehensive it may not have offered.
A few years in the past, Bleeding Cool reported on Marvel Executive Editor and Senior VP Tom Brevoort posting the unique script to Alan Moore‘s contribution to the Heroes profit ebook, revealed by Marvel Comics in 2002 within the wake of 9/11. Drawn by Dave Gibbons, it put the occasions of 9/11 into historic context, with different nations across the globe who had comparable assaiults, because the first aerial bombardment of Guernica by the Spanich authorities throughout that nation’s civil warfare, in addition to the bombings of Hiroshimi and Nagaski, London’s Blitz and Germany’s Dresden bombings.
This weekend, on his Substack, Tom Brevoort posted it once more, with a brand new coda. “I did later make an attempt to convince Alan to write FANTASTIC FOUR, unsuccessfully—he did have an interest in doing ANT-MAN, though I was never quite certain whether we could sell it in sufficient quantities to make it worth pursuing, and it never came together in any event. But I bet his Ant-Man would have been mind-blowing.”
An Alan Moore-written Ant Man not promoting in ample portions? It should have been a unique time. Of course, Ant-Man wasn’t an MCU star then, however Alan Moore did work with Edgar Wright on The Show movies, who had been getting ready to direct the Ant Man film and whose script with Joe Cornish nonetheless supplied that foundation of that first movie after they give up, so there might have been crossover of curiosity there.
These days, Alan Moore does not need something to do with superheroes, even when reporters preserve asking him about them, and his daughter Leah Moore has written eloquently concerning the subject. As she says, “Can you imagine if he hadn’t been f-cked over? If instead of being Grumpy Alan Moore Shouting From His Cave he had spent the past 40 years putting out book after book for DC and the rest? Creating vast worlds full of the superheroes he loves? Enjoying comics? It’s a damn shame.” And it wasn’t that way back, it appears, that he might need been keen to return to Marvel for one thing small…
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