George R. R. Martin Changes Superhero Origins Forever in New Marvel Comic
WARNING: Spoilers for Wild Cards: The Drawing of Cards #1ahead
The critically acclaimed author and editor George R. R. Martin helped to craft the vast Wild Cards Universe beginning in the 1980s, but Marvel Comics' recent comic book reimagining of the Wild Cards world is turning classic superhero origin stories on their heads. In an origin in some ways similar to the Fantastic Four, or even Spider-Man, the «wild card virus» used to create super beings in the Wild Cards universe is still a unique twist on a classic superhero formula.
Beginning in 1987 with Bantam Books' release of Wild Cards the expansive world of Wild Cards has led to dozens of mosaic anthology stories, novels, comic books, and games, ever expanding with new writers and creators and all edited by George R. R. Martin of Game of Thrones fame. Two prior comic book adaptations of the Wild Cards series, by Epic Comics and Dabel Brothers Productions, both adapted stories set far into the future of the Wild Cards universe, but Marvel's newest Wild Cards: The Drawing of Cards limited series adapts the very first Wild Cards novel, which sets up the entire universe from page one.
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Wild Cards: The Drawing of Cards — written by Paul Cornell with art by Mike Hawthorne and Adriano Di Benedetto adapted from stories by Howard Waldrop, George R. R. Martin, and others — is a 4-issue mini-series that, given enough popularity, will hopefully be expanded into an ongoing series of Wild Cards related comics. The basic premise of the story focuses on a normal Earth directly after the end of WWII, which is then inadvertently infected by the «Wild Card» virus. The synopsis for Wild Cards: The
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