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| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer |
| Notable works | Silver Surfer Green Lantern Marvel vs DC Batman/Aliens Witchblade |
Ron Marz is an American comic book writer.
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Biography
Marz is well known for his work on Silver Surfer and Green Lantern, as well as the Marvel vs DC crossover and Batman/Aliens. He also worked on the CrossGen Comics series Scion, Mystic, Sojourn, and The Path. At Dark Horse Comics he created Samurai: Heaven and Earth and various Star Wars comics. He has also done work for Devil's Due Publishing's Aftermath line, namely Blade of Kumori. In 1995, he had a brief run on XO-Manowar, for Valiant Comics.
Marz received severe criticism from many factions of comic book fandom for his part in Emerald Twilight, where the character of Hal Jordan was turned into a mass murderer solely to make way for a new Green Lantern character, Kyle Rayner. He has also been criticized for the arguably misogynistic tone of his writing, in particular a pair stories he wrote for Green Lantern in which two female supporting cast members were killed when the villain Major Force murdered them by stuffing them in a kitchen refrigerator. These two stories inspired the name of the Women in Refrigerators website, a site dedicated to exposing and denouncing violence against women being depicted in comic books. Since those two Green Lantern stories, Marz has reported receiving numerous hate letters and even death threats, all of which he claims are the work of the "Twelve Internet Trolls", and therefore refuses to apologize for his writing these scenes. [1] He returned to the Green Lantern series after an absence to pen the final arc of the book's third volume, then the 12-issue "Ion" maxi-series, which also featured the death of a female supporting cast member, although not by having her stuffed in the fridge.
Marz's more recent works includes a number of Top Cow books including Witchblade and an upcoming Cyberforce relaunch. For DC Comics, he has written Ion, a 12 part comic book miniseries that followed the Kyle Rayner character after the One Year Later event, and Tales of the Sinistro Corps Presents: Parallax and Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Ion, two one-shot tie-ins to the Green Lantern crossover, The Sinestro Corps War.
Having been a lifelong fan of the character, Ron was the brain behind Moonstone Books' 2006 Annual featuring The Phantom, and was responsible for getting writers Chuck Dixon, Mike Bullock, Tony Bedard, and Rafael Nieves participate with chapters for the book.[2] Marz has also signed on to write a short story with the character for one of Moonstone's upcoming Phantom prose collections.
Recently, Virgin Comics announced that Marz would be joining as editor of three of their Shakti Line titles: Devi, Ramayan 3392 A.D. and The Sadhu. [3] He is also writing the series Beyond, based on a story created by Deepak Chopra.
At Top Cow he is writing Broken Trinity about Witchblade, The Darkness and Angelus.[4] [5] This led to the announcement at the 2008 Baltimore Comic-Con that he had signed an exclusive contract with Top Cow which will entail three comics a month - two "Top Cow Universe" titles and a creator-owned project.[6]
Bibliography
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Comics work includes:
- Beyond (with Edison George, Virgin Comics, 2008)
- Broken Trinity (with Stjepan Sejic, 3-issue mini-series, Top Cow, 2008, forthcoming)
- Dragon Prince (with Lee Moder, Top Cow, 2008)
Notes
- ^ Comicon.Com: Ron Marz Initial Ion Thoughts
- ^ Marz, Dixon, Bedard, Nieves & Bullock talk "The Phantom Annual", Comic Book Resources, October 19, 2006
- ^ Ron Marz Joins Virgin Comics, Newsarama
- ^ Ron Marz talks Broken Trinity, Comic Book Resources, July 17, 2008
- ^ Ron Marz on Top Cow's Broken Trinity, Newsarama, July 23, 2008
- ^ Baltimore 08: Ron Marz Signs Top Cow Exclusive, Newsarama, September 29, 2008
References
- Ron Marz at the Comic Book DB
External links
- Official message board, Comic Book Resources
- Official message boardm Comicbloc.com
- Marz discusses his time on Green Lantern, Comic Book Resources
| Preceded by Tom DeFalco & Ron Frenz |
Thor writer 1993–1994 (with Jim Starlin in 1993) |
Succeeded by Roy Thomas |
| Preceded by Gerard Jones |
Green Lantern writer 1994–2000 |
Succeeded by Jay Faerber |
| Preceded by Ben Raab |
Green Lantern writer 2004 |
Succeeded by Geoff Johns |
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