Marvel Comics has created a new television development department with a new executive vice president in charge of television. That means one of two things happened: (1) The company saw an opening in the TV superhero market created by “Heroes” and ABC’s “No Ordinary Family” (airing next fall), or (2) Someone realized that re-booting the Spider-Man movies with fresh-faced gaybait maybe isn’t the best long-term business plan.
Anyway, the details are surprisingly awesome:
Earlier today, Marvel announced that Jeph Loeb will be the Executive Vice President in charge of Television, which is a newly created position at Marvel. Loeb’s duties will include overseeing the development of live-action and animated Marvel TV series…
Loeb is primarily known as comic book writer with several titles to his credit… However, Loeb has worked extensively on television series, including “Lost,” “Heroes” and “Smallville.” Additionally, Loeb wrote the films “Commando” and “Teen Wolf” back in the ’80s. [MTV]
The world as I know it makes so much more sense now that I know that Commando was written by a comic book writer. That goes a long way in explaining this:
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This guy probably has the greatest resume I’ve ever seen.
*SKEET SKEET SKEET*
Marvel announced that Jeph Loeb will be the Executive Vice President in charge of Television
Dammit, that’s Harry Crane’s job.
Radioactive Man or GTFO
what the article fails to mention is that Loeb was fired from Heroes and Lost for sucking a huge fat dick and most of his comics are meandering directionless messes filled with two page spreads of close ups on dude’s faces (he is paid per page) and is more or less a laughing stock of the industry on his way out (and into a cushy tv job apparently)
Quailman or GTFO
@Herbert Hover: It’s sad too, because earlier in his career he wrote some amazing stories like The Long Halloween. And now we have Red Hulk…ugh
One of the worst comic book writers going right now…
Since when did that clip need any explanation? Everything in it, including the chain mail armor, makes perfect sense to me.
I’m also massively retarded.
Rotary saw blade to the forehead or GTFO