Marville

Marville is a 2002 "satire" comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics. The series was written by Bill Jemas and illustrated by Mark Bright. The stories involve satirical comments on comic book industry conventions and trends.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) While good on paper, this series is just full of inside jokes so weird that they need explanation pages, making it not feeling like a parody comic.
 * 2) A forgettable, yet bizarre story revolving around Ted Turner and Jane Fonda, who are somehow still alive in the futuristic year of 5002, sending their fictional son, Kal-AOL back in time to stop a meteor strike from destroying Earth. This is quickly forgotten about, with Kal deciding that he wants to stop the crimes and it's underworld led by the Kingpin (who is not what was expected in this comic, see below), while knowing the meaning of life and the universe as seen by God (see below).
 * 3) *And of course, Ted Turner and Jane Fonda are never seen again and are only in the first 2 issues and a 6th issue.
 * 4) No real villains, the closest we get are the meteors about to hit Earth, a rude man from the crowd witnessing Ted Turner chopping the meteor, Batman, Iron Man, Black Panther, an unnamed bank robber with his followers, two unidentified jobless men, fifty Raptors, a village elder, a medicine man and Spike Lee as the Kingpin!?
 * 5) Forgettable characters such as the protagonist Kal-AOL, Mickey, Lucy and the fictionalized versions of Ted Turner and Jane Fonda who are also stereotypes in this comic.
 * 6) Lots of forced celebrity cameos (including Tony Soprano and Samy Naceri)that always say that they are typecast.
 * 7) The covers are misleading and have nothing to do with the story whatsoever.
 * 8) No character development at all.
 * 9) Black Panther and Iron Man are now depicted as racist superheroes in the comic as they kill people.
 * 10) False Advertising: the covers are misleading and have nothing to do with the story whatsoever.
 * 11) They even featured Batman, who is owned by DC Comics in the second issue without permission with Marvel. His costume in this comic looks hilariously awful with the three bat-ears and the purple spandex of his suit.
 * 12) *They also even have Superman, who is actually a possible future or superhero version of Kal-AOL, with a "J" shield replacing the "S".
 * 13) Lots of moments that don't make any sense like Batman and Iron Man tried to hit the bank robber's head, and somehow goes into his stomach. Also, it seemingly looks like it's using Looney Tunes'  cartoonish physics, but you don't do that for a non-cartoonish comic. Also, there is this disgusting part when Lucy wants the bank robber to lick black ink from her fingers.
 * 14) Issue 3 changed to a more "realistic" art style and the script is typed in the comic, which is feels as blurry to look at and focuses on the meaning of life as opposed to Kal-AOL trying to stop a meteor strike from destroying Earth (in WIMS # 2).
 * 15) Mark Bright's art, while passable, is wasted with poor consistencies like the weird anatomy for the women and the aformentioned "realistic" art style of issue 3.
 * 16) It served as nothing more than a vanity project for it's writer and Marvel's Vice President, Bill Jemas who created the "U-Decide" contest where fans would decide which one of three comic books would become a full series (which ended up being Peter David's Captain Marvel; Ron Zimmerman's Ultimate Adventures set in the Marvel's Ultimate Universe was also part of the contest, but nobody cared about it).
 * 17) *This comic is also notable for insulting science, religion, comic creators, and readers alike while trying to give world peace a bad message.
 * 18) Has the inaccurate science that are rather bizarre and pseudo:
 * 19) Earth's first life was caused by spontaneous generation of certain molecules coming together, while it reveals thirty million years, it has more plant life, but are dying from the lack of carbon dioxide due to the high amount of oxygen in the air. Thus, there were no plants to produce oxygen to start of life on Earth.
 * 20) The Carbon molecules inside the animals are just little critters eating up their parents and it's horrible for plants have to been eaten and it states molecules and microbes from a basic form of a plant needed to die out and should be sorry for them.
 * 21) *Even one episode of Futurama even parodied molecules if imagines that people clap their hands, they will kill thousands of spores that will form a nutritious fungus.
 * 22) *Of course, they aren't sentient, not sapient and aren't even qualify as life and are only a component at best.
 * 23) *It even states that microbes are nothing more than death, murder and cannibalism. Even Jack says that it's not about death, it's only life itself.
 * 24) *Even so, most forms of life haven't evolved yet, since besides in Precambrian or Cambrian-era Earth. Or even Ordovician, there are several more eras to go through, over the course of a few hundred million years, before finding dinosaurs!
 * 25) *The water also has animal microorganisms and evolve when the time machine affects things.
 * 26) The "real" accuracies of Jurassic Period being as called Jurassic PARK (not to be confused with the Michael Crichton novel and Steven Spielberg film of the same name) like shellfishes becoming amphibians from micro organisms evolution (which fishes do not have humans inside), and Duckbills known as Snorts along with Hadrosaurids can talk and are from the Jurassic Period instead of Cretaceous Period.
 * 27) Even Kal stated that the Jurassic Period had exactly the same place his father's house will be and haven't moved. How does he know where his house will be?!
 * 28) Biological Clock is used for time traveling and doesn't work that way in the real world.
 * 29) Wolverine as the first human born and mutated from an otter. But also is immortal not only due to the healing factor, it's a metaphor because people's genetic codes lives in all of them.
 * 30) The pacing is atrocious which drags on the philosophical treaties and historical inaccuracies.
 * 31) Spider-Man and the Punisher served no purpose with the forgotten "Kingpin/Spike Lee" plot thread and the main story.
 * 32) Issue 6 is a recap of the first 5 issue s and ends with Kal-AOL being rejected from publishing Marville to an editor.
 * 33) Issue 7 was also a submission guide for the planned revival of the Epic imprint in order to encourage new comic writers to create their own ideas, but failed later on.

The Only 2 Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) It is thankfully not canon to the mainstream Marvel universe.
 * 2) The artstyle looks nice and simple despite being generic.

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Reception
The comic was panned for its confusing plot, sexuality and it's reviled promotional nature. It was widely considered to be one of the worst comics ever made along with being a publicity stunt and vanity project for Bill Jemas, who was the vice president of Marvel from 2000 to 2004.