Games Workshop & Marvel Teaming Up In New Venture
October 1, 2019 by brennon
More Games Workshop news that flooded the internet yesterday was the announcement that they have teamed up with Marvel Comics in a new venture which will, no doubt, bring heroes and villains from the Warhammer 40,000 and Age Of Sigmar worlds to the page in comic book style.
The first comics are set to be landing in 2020 so whilst that is quite a way off it means that you won't have too long to wait. Some folks will remember Inferno! and other publications like Warhammer Monthly from Games Workshop in years past which dived into the world of comic strips, graphic novels and stories told in the medium of pictures rather than just words. So, Games Workshop has previous with this kind of thing!
It will be fun to see if they look to revive some of the older tales from back then or if they concentrate fully on new characters and new stories to be told. I for one would read the heck out of a Gotrek comic and one diving into all the gory madness of Warcry.
What stories would you like to see them tell?
"I for one would read the heck out of a Gotrek comic..."
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I really liked the 40K graphic novels so this could be something great…
But I have realised I’m becoming an old grumpy shit, when something as simple as a silly cartoon of an ultramarine grates me lol – I think I need to allow my sense of humour some room to breath.
#takinglifetooseriously
My biggest concern is that this will go the way of many GW products and be region exclusive. Like the last magazine they did (already forgot the name) that never saw the light of day in Germany. And 40k and humor isn’t anything new by any stretch of the imagination… “Turnsignals on a Landraider” anybody? 😉
I’d like to see non-space marine comics – Necromunda has plenty of scope for interesting stories, Rogue Traders, Inquisitors, Assassins, Commissars, Nurglings… anything but Space Marines, especially Space Wolves. Well, a long Cypher/Fallen story would be great if we have to do a space marine story… and Dark Angels are a Chaos faction anyway so they are allowed!
Yes, not space marines please. I’d love to see Drukhari, Tyranids, Genestealer Cults, Harlequins, Necrons… there’s so much to explore besides boring old space marines.
This could be a good venture; there’s so much lore and potential for good stories in the 40K universe that would make for good comics. I’d like to see this work out, though I”m a little wary of them partnering with Marvel due to how their own IPs have kind of gone to pot. We’ll just wait and see.
This isn’t a venture between GW and Marvel this is a venture of GW and Disney. Does this change how people will look at this? Two of the largest companies in their portions of the entertainment industry so how will this move forward. Will this be a test bed for future operations? Just a random thought for the day. 🙂
That’s the part I’m worried about. Disney is all about being PC, liberal, and family-friendly nowadays (blech), while GW is all about crazy, over-the-top violence and gore in a very dark universe. If Disney tries to acquire the rights to produce comics or movies about AoS or WH40K, I could see them being SEVERELY hampered to the point it’s only 40K in name only. Heck, look what happened with Doom: Annihilation.
Maybe 40k will go back to it’s original roots, and make fun of the imperium, instead of having fanboys write BL books about how great the luddite mouthbreathers are?
Now if we did get more stories about the Imperial Guard (I’m still a fan of the old Last Chancers) or stories where the more human sides of the marines are explored like in some of the old Black Library, that would be good and a lot of fun. I’d even pay to see them make a whole Ciaphas Cain movie series exploring the adventures of the pompous goof. My point is that I don’t want to see the elements that make 40K what it is taken away just to make it more palatable for general audiences. Right now we’re… Read more »
I would have said they should have got the old 2000AD writers and artists to do this. But they did it years ago ?
Neat, but let’s be honest, it’ll be just more marinewank stories.
If they go down the high-quality graphic novel route then it could be good. If they go down the cheap-as-chips, play it for laughs beano cartoon style then I really do want to see the galaxy burn. ?
Love the graphic story’s years back hopping the new material will be as good.
I’m really not sure how to feel about this.
Have Marvel approached GW seeing potential in the grim dark and assigning their best writers and artists to the project to create something great, or have GW just paid marvel to reprint some of their old comics in the states?
And as great as Marvel movies are, the comics are very hit or mostly miss at the moment.
Comics aren’t exactly my thing, but I can’t see any real downsides to this either. Could be interesting, might not be.
So we’ve action figures (correction: AN action figure) from Bandai and now comics from Marvel.
These are both things I have wanted to see for a very, very long time, but I hope they can pull it off. Yes, the gap between GW’s grimness and Disney’s bland mainstream lowest-common-denominator PC-ness could be a problem…
It will only be a “problem” if Marvel (Disney) try to push that back onto GW. If it’s limited only to the comics then it’s only a problem for the comics
Marvel Comics have been a complete failure in all respects in recent years with declining sales despite the movies being popular (as many here like to point out!). What a probably terrible idea, but continues the trend that GW has with “popularising” their IPs – transforming Warhammer Fantasy into World of Warcraft, and attempting to turn 40K into some sort of Fortnite/Halo hybrid turd (thank goodness they seem to have received pushback on 40K at least).
Not good news. A disaster which I hope is averted by luck.