My blog entries petered off there for a bit as I sort of used up all the DC Comics titles I'd introduce in my My52 publishing empire. With the exhaustion of my favorite DC titles (and not ready to develop pitches for titles I don't care much for), I turned my attention to doing the same thing with Marvel's comics.
While my My52 pitches were rooted in the single event of Blackest Night, my most recent Marvel Comics awareness is spread over a few "recent" Marvel events. It's hard to pick just one point. While I see 2006's 'Civil War' as a reasonable starting point, there were a few follow-on events and bold moves I appreciated enough to want to keep in my timeline. Unfortunately, there were just as many backpedals and reverses for my tastes, and I'd like to excise those.
For these reasons, I'm opting for a sort of rolling start to Make My Marvel.
MMM Canon is solid up through the conclusion of 'Civil War'. That mini-series saw Marvel's hero community violently split down the middle over support or resistance to a newly-enacted Suuper-Hero Registration Act. Iron-Man's supporters ultimately won the battle against Captain America's resistors, and the whole thing ended tragically with the assassination of Cap on the afternoon of his arrest for his actions.
Right on the heals of Civil War was 'Secret Invasion', the revelation that a number of Marvel's characters were actually shape-shifting alien Skrull invaders. While this story was even better than Civil War, the time in-between saw a couple reversals I never wanted to see, and my MMM timeline will tentatively progress through Secret Invasion, but with some retcons to maintain some of the bolder elements I'd liked from previous stories.
If you think I'm being vague on which elements I'm keeping, that's intentional. No spoilers here, gang, you'll have to keep reading to see where I'd take My Marvel.
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