{"id":25962,"date":"2011-06-29T16:16:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T20:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=25962"},"modified":"2011-06-29T17:37:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:37:31","slug":"marvel-over-reaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/marvel-over-reaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Over-reaching?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/X-Men_Warren_Ellis_story_credit.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/X-Men_Warren_Ellis_story_credit-450x254.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"X-Men_Warren_Ellis_story_credit\" width=\"450\" height=\"254\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/X-Men_Warren_Ellis_story_credit-450x254.png 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/X-Men_Warren_Ellis_story_credit-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/X-Men_Warren_Ellis_story_credit.png 848w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week Marvel Comics &#038; G4 issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&#038;id=32945\" target=\"_blank\">joint press release<\/a> announcing the July 29 American television premiere of the Madhouse produced Iron Man &#038; Wolverine anime television series. The press announcement credited Madhouse&#8217;s Iron Man, Wolverine, X-Men, and Blade anime series as &#8220;guided by New York Times best-selling author Warren Ellis.&#8221; British comic writer Warren Ellis has now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=12992\" target=\"_blank\">publicly revealed<\/a> that he had minimal involvement in Madhouse&#8217;s anime productions and wasn&#8217;t even aware, prior to Marvel&#8217;s press release, that he&#8217;d ever been a New York Times bestselling author. Ellis&#8217; hardcover graphic novel <i>Absolute Planetary 2<\/i> charted once on the New York Times bestseller list during the week of August 8, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like Marvel is desperately trying to generate buzz for its four <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animax.co.jp\/marvelanime\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marvel Anime<\/a> series that have been widely regarded as mediocre at best. The Blade anime television series will premiere in Japan on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2011-06-28\/warren-ellis-comments-on-marvel-anime-publicity\/2\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Marvel Comics &#038; G4 issued a joint press release announcing the July 29 American television premiere of the Madhouse produced Iron Man &#038; Wolverine anime television series. The press announcement credited Madhouse&#8217;s Iron Man, Wolverine, X-Men, and Blade anime series as &#8220;guided by New York Times best-selling author Warren Ellis.&#8221; British comic writer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25983,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25962\/revisions\/25983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}