So, it would probably be easy to hand-wave away the Marvel continuity crossing that I do in this comic, weaving in characters from the movies, and TV shows, and comic books… And that’s before we even get to my outright-renaming of MCU action figures later on, or introducing semi-original characters who are “played” by action figures that, originally, have nothing at all to do with Marvel comics or the MCU. This is basically laborious fan fiction, right? And, I have absolutely nothing again fan fiction, but the impression generally, still, is that there’s not much intellectual rigor to it. It’s, functionally, playing with someone else’s toys.
And, you know, I don’t have a super-complex, Mark Gruenwald-ian way to tie all the disparate threads together, except to say that I’m trying to utilize the versions of particular characters that I like the best. That’s why the Andy Serkis Klaw is in this comic, why the Hugh Jackman Wolverine pops in and out, and why the MCU’s King T’Chaka is very much alive and well in my stories. This is the Phil Wrede Marvel Action Figure Comic Universe, after all, and I’ve tried to find ways to incorporate the version of the character that’s the most meaningful to me, when an action figure of them is available. I figure, if the various backstories and personal histories of all these characters are difficult to reconcile, that’s simultaneously in keeping with the great, grand, convoluted Marvel storytelling tradition, and that it’ll give me further opportunities for storytelling in the future!
Maybe that’s a riotously self-indulgent explanation for why I’m playing with the toys I want to play with. Maybe it’s meaningful to you, and maybe it isn’t. I don’t want you to think I never thought about it. Because I have thought about it. A lot.
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