Obviously, David Lane's conjecture is absolutely correct, and Meng Qi is now ready to turn his attention to Marvel's comic book series and superheroes. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This is not only the reason why Meng Qi wants to speed up the pace of development, but also related to the basic characteristics of American comics.

There are a lot of differences between American comics and Japanese comics, in addition to the painting style, storyboards and plot settings, which directly affect the reading experience, there is another huge difference, that is, a comic book is a world, while American comics (especially superhero comics) are a world composed of multiple comics and multiple characters.

In other words, the two worlds built by the two giants, DC and Marvel, are essentially a system with mixed content, and it is obvious that it is impossible for such a system to be created by Meng Qi alone.

Just like DC restarted the DC universe after the big event "Flashpoint", cleared all the numbers of the existing superhero comic serials, and launched New52, as the name suggests, it is to launch 52 serialized monthly magazines, with an average of 13 per week.

Even if Meng Qi has a monster drawing speed, it is very difficult to complete 13 comics in a week.

Therefore, after building a good world, it is wise to involve more excellent cartoonists and screenwriters.

This is also the original intention of Meng Qi to propose "developmental creation".

Now that the S・Universe has been built and the foundation has been laid, the world will only get better and better as time goes by, and there is no need for Meng Qi to spend most of his time and energy in this world.

Unless it is a particularly important work such as "Batman: Silence" and "All-Star Superman", as well as otherworldly stories such as "Red Son" and "Injustice", he will write the main work.

Of course, these are all later words, at present, Meng Qi is struggling with how to push out the world where the Avengers are located, and how to better make readers accept it.

This world has already taken a name, as opposed to S. Universe, the world where Captain America, Iron Man, and Hulk are located is named M. Universe by Meng Qi.

In fact, Meng Qi had already drawn up a preliminary plan for the publication of M.Universe, and it was very different from S.Universe.

In principle, the superheroes of the S・Universe are launched in the following way: Frank Miller creates the origin comics, then hands off the follow-up stories to other cartoonists and screenwriters, and after all the seven giants of the Justice League appear, the "Justice League" comics are released, and the other superheroes appear in "Window".

M. Universe is different, according to Meng Qi's plan, he is ready to directly launch the Avengers group.

To elaborate, it is the first to serialize a monthly comic about the establishment of the Avengers, with Black Widow as an introduction to introduce the main members of the Avengers.

When a superhero such as Captain America appears, the hero's origin comic is released at the same time.

According to the script that Meng Qi has written, the origin comic of "The Avengers" is divided into four issues, with S.H.I.E.L.D. forming the Avengers as the main line, and each issue introduces two superheroes, a total of eight heroes, namely: Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Ant-Man, Wasp, Spider-Man and Hawkeye.

This is also why Meng Qi launched the role of Black Widow early in the special issue of "Shop Window" female superheroes.

Although the publication plan has been drawn up, Meng Qi still has concerns.

The main reason is that DC and Marvel, whether it is the basic setting or superheroes, there are huge differences.

In terms of world view, DC is a completely fictional world, and the cities in it, such as Metropolis where Superman is located, Gotham where Batman is located, and Seaside City where Green Lantern is located do not exist in the real world, while Marvel is closer to reality, and the main city where superheroes are active is in New York.

Therefore, there is also a saying that Marvel tells fantasy in the real world, and DC explores reality in the fantasy world.

From the perspective of superhero settings, the differences are even more obvious.

According to the information that Meng Qi got from the Anime Museum, DC's top heroes are basically the legacy of the golden age of American comics on Earth, and the only characters in the Marvel Golden Age can be regarded as first-line in the future.

In fact, the rise of Marvel began during the Silver Age, that is, in the 1960s on Earth. From here, Marvel changed the setting of superheroes who are tall and great, and began to set the character flaws that are more realistic and closer to ordinary people, and created a large number of well-known superheroes.

It must be noted here that Marvel's reality is completely different from the reality shown in "Batman: Year One", Batman's reality is a literary reality, that is, a sense of reality created through the plot and connotation of the story, while Marvel's reality is the reality that is close to life in the character setting.

In addition to the product of Captain America's golden age, Marvel's other top characters have more or less flaws, and there are more anti-heroes such as Punisher, Hulk, Deadpool, etc.

In a word, DC's heroes are more symbolic and are gods in some way, while Marvel's heroes are living people.

It is precisely because of this that DC and Marvel's superhero movies have gone in two completely different directions, presenting two extremes.

Since Marvel launched the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) program, Marvel's superhero movies have become more and more inclined to entertainment. To put it simply, after giving up part of the depth and connotation, Marvel turned their movies into entertainment products that can be warm, funny, complaining, and enthusiastic.

And what about DC, after Nolan's Batman prequel trilogy, the cinematic universe has become something that can be dark and dark can be dark, and in the end even Superman is not immune.

This is not to say that the entertainment is bad, after all, the first phase of the MCU led by "The Avengers" 6 films, with a cost of $1 billion in exchange for $3.74 billion at the global box office, and the second phase is even more terrifying, before the release of the final movie "Ant-Man", it has already earned more than $6 billion at the box office!

As for the third phase, according to Marvel's projections, it is said that it will harvest more than 20 billion at the box office!

It's just that forcibly lowering the depth for entertainment seems a little undesirable, although the Marvel movie is really cool to watch, but the civil war has changed from "Iron Man and Captain America are each calling people to fight because of their different political tendencies", to "Captain America wants to find Bucky to get a base, but Iron Man also wants to find Captain America to get a base, so he will catch Bucky, and Captain America doesn't want to fight with Iron Man, based on the fact that the two sides are at war", is this really good?!

In fact, this kind of practice of being willing to reduce the depth and connotation for the sake of box office and ratings, DC has also done it.

In "Batman and Robin", there are absurd shots of playing ice hockey and ice jumping on ballet when the villains appear, and there are also strange scenes like Rainbow Batman in the early DC comics and animated series, and 2011's "Green Lantern" is also a movie that develops in the direction of entertainment and popcorn, but it failed miserably at the box office.

And it just so happened that Nolan's Batman series was a great success, which directly contributed to the DC Cinematic Universe being dyed with a layer of darkness.

But no matter how DC and Marvel's cinematic universes develop and market, their comics are still evenly matched.

And for Meng Qi, the key is how to push out these heroes who are completely different from Superman.

In fact, after returning to the American Federation and dealing with the "demonstrations", Meng Qi began to create Marvel's superhero comics.

The origin comics of Captain America, Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Hulk have been completed, and "The Avengers" has also completed the creation of the first two issues, but Meng Qi has been hidden, on the one hand, because "Justice League" has not yet been released, and on the other hand, he has indeed not found a suitable entry point.

Until one night in late April, Meng Qi was casually flipping through some comics he had created in his study, and when he turned to the four turtles, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, remembering another Marvel superhero team with the same four members as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Fantastic Four!

In the Marvel comic book world, there are three superhero teams that can fight, the Avengers, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four, while DC can only play the Justice League.

What's more, Fantastic Four is Marvel's pioneering work in the Silver Age, which almost perfectly embodies the two main characteristics of Marvel Comics' realism and character flaws.

First of all, the four members of the Fantastic Four have a certain subversiveness in terms of character settings.

Although these four people form a superhero team, they are more of a "family".

Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman are a husband and wife, with the unruly and self-righteous Thunderbolt being the younger brother of the Invisible Woman, and the humorous Stone Man being their mutual friend.

Even, Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Girl became the first pair of mainstream superheroes in American comic history to get married and have children.

In addition, although the Fantastic Four are superhero comics, they have a strong sense of reality, they live in real Manhattan, New York, not some fictional city, and they will encounter many practical difficulties and practical problems while adventuring, such as neighbors complaining that they are too noisy, the city government wants to take back their house, and Mr. Fantastic takes the team funds to speculate in the stock market and loses all of them.

Moreover, unlike traditional superheroes who will use masks to hide their identity, they only have uniform and no decorations to block their faces, so walking on the street, many people know that they are superheroes.

Overall, it's fitting to use the Fantastic Four as a test of the waters.

If the Fantastic Four succeeds, and then launches the Avengers and X-Men, it will be less abrupt and more acceptable to readers.

As a result, Meng Qi concentrated a few days to create the origin comic of "Fantastic Four", and prepared to release it in early May, that is, after "Superman and Batman" and "Justice League" went on sale.

However, before that, someone came to the American Federation and brought him a surprise.

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PS: The name S・Universe comes from the most representative Superman symbol in DC Comics, while M・Universe is directly derived from the initials of Marvel's English name. Well...... Don't think crooked, this is not the meaning of s・m at all, I am not so dirty......;