Nope, it isn’t a belated sequel to Orwell’s 1984 but a new title by Marvel. In fact, as comic god Mark Millar told Glasgow’s Sunday Herald this weekend it will probably be the most expensive Marvel ever made. Why? Well, for starters it needs a cast of actors. And sets. Actors? Sets? Why, yes – as well as artwork 1985 will use photographed real-life actors to portray Marvel characters in real-world locations and sets, which will then be mixed and filtered to produce the finished page. Speaking in the Sunday Herald Mark commented:
“I genuinely think this is the future of comics. It’s like the excitement of mum’s generation going from black-and-white to colour television, going from something that is 2D to people on the page. Americans have never seen photocomics or heard of anything like the old Jackie magazine (an old British romance comic with photostories – Ed) . This is like a multi- million-dollar version of Jackie: we are taking it to the next level. This has the potential to be Marvel’s Narnia.”
Sounds intriguing and also highly risky – let’s hope it is Marvel’s Narnia and not their Heaven’s Gate.
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