George R.R. Martin’s ‘Wild Cards’ Picked Up by Marvel
George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards universe is getting a limited comic book run thanks to Marvel.
Wild Cards started as a short story collection edited by George R.R. Martin before he started writing about Westeros.
The first volume was released in 1986 and was a finalist for that year’s Hugo Award (it lost to Alan Moore’s Watchmen). The series grew to novels, comic books, graphic novels, and role-playing games in multiple languages. The saga has been written by more than forty authors over three decades.
via Tor Science Fiction
Marvel has picked up George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards and is making a limited series titled The Drawing of the Cards. Writer Paul Cornell (Doctor Who) and artist Mike Hawthorne (Deadpool) are leading the project.
via Marvel:
“The Wild Cards series tells the story of an alternate history where Earth is home to super-powered individuals. When a human is infected with the alien ‘Wild Card’ virus, the odds are that they will be killed… which is referred to as ‘drawing the black queen’. Of those that survive, the bulk of them become ‘jokers’, left with some strange mutated form. A lucky few are called ‘aces’, those gifted with superpowers they can put to use towards heroic goals… or villainous ones.”
Revisit the epic stories or jump into this incredible world for the very first time when Wild Cards: The Drawing of the Cards #1 hits stands on June 1.
via Marvel
