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George RR Martin's Conditions For Writing For Marvel Comics "Seemed Unworkable" (UPDATE)

CM Punk is writing a Marvel comic book. But George RR Martin, apparently, is not. This is the state of play that one person found intolerable, asking Marvel's Senior VPP Tom Brevoort,
Why did you decide to pursue getting CM Punk to write a comic but not pursued George RR Martin.
Tom replied,

CM Punk wanted to write a Marvel story. George RR Martin expressed some interest, but with conditions that seemed unworkable.

What could they have been? Certainly George RR Martin, author of the Songs Of Fire And Ice novels adapted as A Game Of Thrones is a bit of a Marvel fan of old,

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What conditions could those have been? Maybe that the Avengers all have costumes that reveal certain physical attributes? Sticking to each other or flapping in the breeze?

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Although Martin admits to other tastes.

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Seriously though… what conditions could they have been? And what books would have he have written? I know they really wanted Inhumans to be like Game Of Thrones

UPDATE: Ah there we go. From MTV, transcribed by Comic Book Movie.

"I don't know what my story angle would be. The character I'd have the most fun writing would be Dr Strange,the master of the mystic arts, he was always one of my favorites…but before I did that I'd have my lawyers meet with Marvel's lawyers and work out an iron-clad contract that would say that whatever I did in the story would continue on forever and would never be retconned, rebooted or reimagined out of the universe when some later writer decided to mess around with it…I always hated reboots and retconns and the fact that a new writer comes in and 'un-does' what the previous writer did and brings dead characters back to life, kills new characters….but I did love Dr Strange and if I was to write a Marvel character him and his dimensions would be it….I'd seperate him off from the rest of the Marvel universe and not make him part of a team. He doesnt really fit any of that stuff, he's a guy that shouldn't even be known to the rest of the heroes, living on the edge of the Marvel Universe protecting the world and our dimension and plane from dangers and forces out there that the other characters like Spider-Man and The Avengers don't even dream exist. He's our wall against Cthullu and the Old-Ones and the dread Dormammu. That's when Dr Strange was at his best, Stan Lee and Ditko were [writing] him in just that manner."


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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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