nah, i’m just joshing

but truth be told, it feels like the most respected names in the high end, alternative, and (most importantly) creator owned comic world doing page and cover rate gigs on older intellectual properties for the corporate comic publishing houses seems to work against what most of these fine cartoonists have spent their lives promoting for the art form.

but in the name of Civility, i hope this might lead some of the typical Marvel readers to his upcoming collection.

Scratchie, that scenario of yours would certainly be a dream come true.
I re-read a few issues of the original OMEGA earlier tonight, and they’re even better than I remembered. The sad, shocking fate of John Nedley stands out in particular.

It was a distinguished piece of work that deserved a proper finale.

In my daydream alternate world, Marvel approached Steve Gerber and Mary Skrenes (in exchange for having Lethem write a new version of OtU) and asked them to write the “real” finale to the original Omega story, and published that in the “Omega Classic” TPB, instead of Steven Grant’s misbegotten Defenders issues.

Did anyone *else* think I was accusing Marvel of “stealing” Omega?

I never said Steve OWNS Omega. I said Omega was HIS creation.
Of course Marvel owns the intellectual property.

Steve Gerber CREATED Omega.
Just as he created Howard the Duck.
Nothing negates that.

http://www.omegatheunknown.com/

No such thing. Marvel owns Omega, plain and simple. 3 words for you and Steve:
WORK-FOR-HIRE.

It is truly a joyous thing.

I think the legend is that Marvel approached Jonathan Lethem and said “You can write any Marvel character you want,” and he replied “Omega the Unknown” to which the Marvel editor in question said “Uh…who?”

Steve Gerber has a lot to say about the book in this edition of Lying in the Gutters from ‘05, including his initial anger at the book being done without him, and then his meeting with Lethem where he admits he “misjudged him.” Interesting stuff!

According to the solicitation text, that’s the cover, though Panter is also credited with doing some interior art as well.

This new Omega the Unknown series is pretty fantastic so far, for anyone who hasn’t been reading it.

At Marvel they directed me around the corner to some vaguer hole in the wall they called ‘the mezzanine’. Mezzanine? It was a door through a janitorial area. There was a locked glass door at the end of the corridor with a card entry slot. There on the floor, by the door, was a pile of packages, but also some thrown-out pizza boxes in the same pile. I knocked politely about 3 times then banged the shit out of it until the irate kid who was supposed to be manning that station appeared, yelling at me that I could’ve thrown it on the discarded pizza boxes and I told him no thanks. Is this any way to run a Death star?

“You know a super hero’s in trouble when he resorts to drawing a comic book to try to solve his problems!”

So it looks like Panter is ghosting for Omega.

Pages from JIMBO’S INFERNO should be in the Smithsonian.

Can we start a petition and make this happen?”

Could not have said it better! Panter is the great! I love that cover, haven’t bought a Marvel comic in over ten years, it’s like Godfather 3 “just when I think I’m out they pull me back in!”

Pages from JIMBO’S INFERNO should be in the Smithsonian.

Can we start a petition and make this happen?