Should the "Epic" line be considered a DU?

Lightning Strike · Post by **Lightning Strike** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:15 pm

Should the "Epic" line be considered a DU? What's your thoughts on this?

BrianT · Post by **BrianT** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:51 pm

You mean Marvel's Epic line? I'd say no because some of it tied into the main MU, while others were "Elseworlds" and others creator owned. It wasn't really a "universe" of its own.

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:59 pm

No.

But on a side note...I wish that John Byrne had been allowed to finish "The Last Galactus Story". I read the script and I think it's the most brilliant thing he ever wrote.

Brother J · Post by **Brother J** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:59 pm

Brian Thomer wrote:You mean Marvel's Epic line? I'd say no because some of it tied into the main MU, while others were "Elseworlds" and others creator owned. It wasn't really a "universe" of its own.

Definitely not a universe, but a dead line of comics.

Brother J · Post by **Brother J** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:00 pm

Tim Petty wrote:No.

But on a side note...I wish that John Byrne had been allowed to finish "The Last Galactus Story". I read the script and I think it's the most brilliant thing he ever wrote.

I've got a few of those issues of Epic Magazine. However, I only have them because of the color Cerebus stories inside.

Lightning Strike · Post by **Lightning Strike** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:16 pm

Tim Petty wrote:No.

But on a side note...I wish that John Byrne had been allowed to finish "The Last Galactus Story". I read the script and I think it's the most brilliant thing he ever wrote.

You can read it online here at my site which includes how Byrne was going to end it:
http://www.geocities.com/lastgalactusstory/

leonmallett · Post by **leonmallett** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 2:03 am

Lightning Strike wrote:Should the "Epic" line be considered a DU? What's your thoughts on this?

There is the mini-DU - Shadowline (3 titles of 8 issues and the follow up 7? issue series).

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:58 pm

man, Epic was awesome.

Cerebus in color...The Last American....Moebius...

I was re-reading Ted Mckeever's "Metropol" just the other day and I was amazed that any company would have believed in an artist's vision so much as to invest the time and resources to publish their work in a way that does it justice. Those books were put together and printed so well. Even more so with "Plastic Forks" also by McKeever.

Just printing stuff that outside the mainstream in the first place was a gamble on Marvel's part. I think the Epic line will someday be looked at as one of Marvel's finest endeavors.

Cyberstrike · Post by **Cyberstrike** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 7:20 pm

Yes, we have a Buravra checklist and it never had a any inter-action between any of it's titles.

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