Marvel Studios founder David Maisel is bringing a whole new comic book universe to fans and has not been this excited about a project since the early days of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The influential executive will guide Aspen Comics’ upcoming Ekos Universe, based on the late acclaimed comic book artist Michael Turner’s creations.In an interview with Popverse, Maisel discussed his involvement with Ekos and why he decided to create the universe linking the former Marvel and DC artist Turner’s creations, leveraging the vast experience he gained building the MCU. “I’ve collected Michael Turner’s art. I was a huge Marvel fan and had a huge Marvel collection even before I went there. But I started collecting Michael Turner’s original art in 2008, the year Iron Man came out, at Comic-Con,” he said. “And I got to know his two best friends. Michael passed that year and he left his comic book company and his art to his two best friends who run Aspen now. James Cameron had the rights for all the entertainment stuff then, so I was just a collector.””I needed to come up with the idea for the universe because Michael had Fathom – which was the number one comic in the world in 1998, crazy for an independent comic to beat Marvel and DC – but that was set to the present day, Soulfire was 200 years in the future, and Ekos was on another planet,” the producer said.
Marvel Studios founder David Maisel is bringing a whole new comic book universe to fans and has not been this excited about a project since the early days of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The influential executive will guide Aspen Comics‘ upcoming Ekos Universe, based on the late acclaimed comic book artist Michael Turner’s creations.
In an interview with Popverse, Maisel discussed his involvement with Ekos and why he decided to create the universe linking the former Marvel and DC artist Turner’s creations, leveraging the vast experience he gained building the MCU. “I’ve collected Michael Turner’s art. I was a huge Marvel fan and had a huge Marvel collection even before I went there. But I started collecting Michael Turner’s original art in 2008, the year Iron Man came out, at Comic-Con,” he said. “And I got to know his two best friends. Michael passed that year and he left his comic book company and his art to his two best friends who run Aspen now. James Cameron had the rights for all the entertainment stuff then, so I was just a collector.”
“I needed to come up with the idea for the universe because Michael had Fathom – which was the number one comic in the world in 1998, crazy for an independent comic to beat Marvel and DC – but that was set to the present day, Soulfire was 200 years in the future, and Ekos was on another planet,” the producer said.
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