To all things an ending - a Marvel 2015 eulogy

[duketheseus]

In September 1999, Chris Partin floated the idea of a new fanfic group called Avengers 2015, and after a quick discussion with Barry Reese who was launching his new group Avengers 2000, the new group became Marvel 2015. Soon came the overview of the years between 1999 and 2015, and it was quickly followed by Avengers 2015 #0. Over the next few

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[barryreese]

I was surprised to see my name mentioned as I have no memory whatsoever of having any role to play in Marvel 2015, lol. What was the discussion about???

[duketheseus]

You were launching Avengers 2000 at around the same time and Chris was going to call the new group Avengers 2015, which had the potential to be confusing so Chris accomodated as you'd got there first and kept Avengers 2015 as the title of his series and renamed the group as Marvel 2015.

The reach of Barry Reese is far and wide after all...

[votemarvel]

Given that Marvel 2015 was only fifteen years into the future (at the time of its launch) and struggled to attract enthusiasm from people, how will a 2079 manage to attract people in when it is set even further into the future?

I'm not trying to slight the stories that have appeared at Marvel 2015, for the very most part they have been very good, I just think it's an odd choice to make.

[barryreese]

I would think that the idea is simply to drum up more enthusiasm for the writers and, via a trickle down effect, to readers. It'd be like kickstarting Pendragons by suddenly setting the entire line in 2025 or something.

[dferguson]

MARVEL 2015 has always had a very loyal and devoted readership core that has continued to support the stories and writers there and has has been continually asking when new stories were going to be written.

It was agreed upon by all concerned that jumpstarting the imprint and setting it in 2079 would give the writers more arm and leg room to do what they do best.

If 2015/2079 were "struggling to attract enthusiam" as you put it would the staff of Avnegers2000 have put over six months of effort into relaunching the imprint when we could all have been doing something else we felt was more important with our time and talent?

[votemarvel]

I'm one of those who have read pretty much all that has come out of Marvel 2015, although I admit I'm not very vocal about it, I had that train of thought Hulk slapped out of me =)

But yes I do think you would have spent time and talent relaunching it, things always seem brilliant in idea but quite often when put out into the world wide web they fail to make the impact they deserve. Just look at Omniverse which should have been a fantastic success but for some reason never reached the heights it should have done.

I sincerely hope that Marvel 2079 is a success after all the work that has gone into it but in a hobby that seems to shun the innovative, will its future universe be able to make its mark?

I hope I am proved wrong but the cynic in me doesn't think so.

[terrasias]

The ending of my involvement with the original 2015 site was the result of time wearing down on a bunch of people. Our new crop of writers were stalling on their starts, and while I had written ahead on several of my series, they weren't getting published to the site due to Chris' busy/hectic schedule. So, I in turn stopped writing for awhile, making it hard for me to get back to the characters.

Nocturnes, I will freely admit, is what brought me around to writing heavy mystery/suspense. I had never attempted it before, and Nocturnes was this huge blast of fresh air. It was, by and large, responsible for things like Backwater (at Vertigo: Subculture) and Missing Persons (at Frontier).

2015 is also my first "creator-owned" style work. ShadowWalker and Fantastic Four both have small bits of creator-owned, while Nocturnes was all-out. That, in itself, helped break the mold for me when it came to how I approached fiction in general.

So yeah, 2015 has a big place in my memory.

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[chimgo]

letdown or let down from papsy