Last night Marvel Entertainment announced that its summer event series Secret Wars will serve as a reboot to the Marvel Universe, and now comic book legend Stan Lee has shared his thoughts on the end of an era during an interview with Newsarama:
“It’s probably good. Anything they do that’s unexpected and different usually captures the attention of the fans. People will want to follow it to see what happens and where it will lead. Marvel cannot keep doing the same stories over and over again. You always have to come up with new angles and new approaches to things. I think it’s probably a good idea. It sounds intriguing to me. Of course I have an emotional attachment to the original Marvel Universe, because I was so involved in it. But that doesn’t mean I expect it to be that way forever. It might be better under this new approach. I’m eager to see what might happen.”
Stan was then asked how he’d reboot the Marvel Universe if he was still in charge of the company, and it seems he’d keep it pretty much the same:
“At the time, what I did, I thought was the right way to go, and maybe sometimes, even the perfect way to go. I liked making the Fantastic Four superheroes without a secret identity. I liked the tragedy of Spider-Man’s origin, the ‘with great power, there must also come great responsibility.’ I thought it was the right way of doing things at the time. And I still like what I’ve done. I can’t think, off the top of my head, of anything I’d really want to change. I don’t know what I would do if I was the creative head of the company today. I’d have to ponder that for a bit. I know that you always have to have surprises. You always have to make the reader say, ‘Wow, I never expected this!’ You have to keep doing that. It’s kind of become the Marvel tradition. If this continues that tradition, I’m happy for them all, and I’m happy for the fans.”
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Originally published January 21, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
