Marvel's Earth 2?

[Artistsean]

What do you guys think of the idea of Marvel having their own Earth 2 styled series? Where, like in DC comics' Earth 2, the characters actually age and move forward with their lives. Characters could stay married, get jobs, have kids, grow old, retire, get replaced by the next generation.
In DC's Earth 2, from what I have heard, Bruce Wayne retired from being Batman and became the new Commissioner. Robin took over his vacant spot and (still called Robin) was a new Batman type in the JSA. His daughter, he had with also retired Selina Kyle, is the Huntress.
Supereman is now the Chief at the Daily Star and is married to Lois. These are the types of things you can't normally do in comics, have characters move forwards and upwards, retire and have kids, pass on their mantel, etc.

What do you guys think? Should Marvel do something like this, like another Ultimates but instead of changing things in an odd way (like having Ben Grim no longer a rocky thing, having all the X-men die) they could just have the characters age in real time.

Should they start the aging from where they are now? Or should they be the age they would be if they did age from the beginning? Spider-Man would be like 50.

 

[Harlekin]

You should check out MC2.

 

[CConn]

What do you guys think of the idea of Marvel having their own Earth 2 styled series? Where, like in DC comics' Earth 2, the characters actually age and move forward with their lives. Characters could stay married, get jobs, have kids...

Ah, I miss Spider-Man in the 2000s.

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

As said, MC2 WAS Marvel's Earth-2, but unfortunately only Spider-Girl managed to survive past the initial first year. Which is a damn shame, because all the books they did were truly great reads in the old school Marvel style. The weakest one for my money was Wild Thing 'cause Hama, for some reason, went the completely OPPOSITE way of her initial appearances and made her too much like Spider-Girl.

 

[Artistsean]

MC2 is similar to what I was talking about, but in that comic it started right away with the next generation and focused on them instead of evolving things to that point. Another similar idea is Fantastic Four's The End. It showed that Ben could turn back and forth from Human to Thing, he was married to Alicia and they had kids, and they lived with the Inhumans. It also showed that Johnny was a member of the Avengers. Iron Man was now only a consciousnesses that went into a new Iron Man armor every time his body was destroyed. It showed that Dr. Doom finally was killed. It sort of evolved the whole universe in a realistic way. Not like a alternate reality way like Earth X or something. Maybe Marvel could relaunch MC2, with this in mind. Where, in this universe, the characters aged naturally. Stories evolved, like showing the gradually acceptance of Mutants. This could be a comic that could go on like Ultimate Marvel, have the whole world age naturally, and not resort to dramatic changes like Dr. Doom being made of metal and having goat legs.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

MC2 eventually brought back most of the original heroes, though. So it was kind of a multi-generational universe, especially with the Fantastic Five.

 

[Artistsean]

The difference, since I have read Earth 2, seems to be that MC2 was sort of started with the idea of being the next generation with Juggernaut's son, Wolverine's daughter, Spider-Man's daughter, a young female Captain America, Falcon's daughters, Franklin Richards, Thunderstrike's son. It is essentially the same idea s Earth 2, but I imagine that Marvel's Earth 2 would focus more on the heroes like Spider-Man and the FF, where they are now, like the FF The End story (http://marvel.wikia.com/Fantastic_Four:_The_End_Vol_1_1), and slowly bring in new younger characters, but not always. Like maybe Spider-Man, has a 10 yr old daughter, and he retires like in MC2 and eventually his 10 yr old daughter grows up to become Spider-Girl, but maybe Captain America has no next generation. Or maybe in MC2 Wiccan and Speed are adults, along with the rest of the Young Avengers and are now full Avengers, while the older Avenges are now part of the Avengers Society or something, like the JSA. But in some cases like Daredevil and the Punisher they don't have others replacing them ever, and while Wolverine has children no one will be taking his place either.

 

[THANOSRULES]

I don't know if that was fundamental to DCs earth 2 as much as things we just more or less off set...I mean those characters were still displayed like they were in their 40s more or less for 30 years.

Marvel has an underrated amount of alternate earths that are fairly major, in addition to the fact marvel has an extensive amount of What If? storylines

 

[Artistsean]

I guess I was just thinking, people complain sometimes that characters aren't allowed to grow older, to grow, evolve, and mature. If Marvel had an alternate reality comic, set up like Ultimate Marvel so that it wasn't a short lived comic, then characters could grow. Spider-Man could have stayed married to MJ and maybe had a child. He could have not only stayed living in the Avengers mansion with MJ and Aunt May but maybe as a day job went to work for the Future Foundation. Eventually, maybe a year or three later MJ could have a baby. It could be a universe set up for people who want to see the characters grow older, mature, maybe die and new characters come in. MC2 was really cool, but this would be sort of different but not too much different. It would also be different from Ultimate Marvel that tried to update their characters, changing radiation to genetic manipulation and altering things like making Aunt May and Uncle Ben more hippiesh. This would keep everything in Marvel the same, origins and all, just allow the characters to age.

So who would read this comic? Should Marvel relaunch MC2 as this relaunch and revamp it? Maybe 10 years from now the Marvel Universe from this comic would look so different (and not just because a character or characters was/were killed and replaced).

 

[THANOSRULES]

Well essentially It has been done twice, Marvel 2099, which tended to focus on new characters, and in MC2, which is a bit more what you'd like to see.

I'd say yes MC2 should relaunch, at least a couple books. It won't sell though. I frakin love American Dream.

If you like MC2 you should read Captain America Corps, it features Dream, and is in the old school style of MC2.