i am excited for agents of SHIELD tv show but it bugs me how it's based on your comics yet not a single of the main characters are from comics. it's not like marvel doesn't have over a hundred SHIELD agents. and now you'll obviously do the painful insertion thing like you did with marcus johnson and phil coulson into the comics for all these new tv characters.
I don’t see this as a problem—and I’m not sure why any such insertion would be painful. There’s nothing wrong with originating characters for a project, and if the characters are good, there’s nothing wrong with introducing a Marvel Universe equivalent of them either. But most of those SHIELD Agents that you’re talking about are relatively faceless apart from a small handful, so all you’re talking about is baggage. Would Phil Coulson as played by Clark Gregg be a better character if his name happened to be Jasper Sitwell?
It would have been a nice little in-joke. But Gregg turned that nondescript character into a fully-formed person, and so having it not be Jasper was a good thing. So in this case, not making him an existing character was a good thing.
But they DID give us Sitwell in the extras. So I’m happy.
Still hoping against hops for Clay Quatermain, tho.
I happen to think shield is a great extension of the marvel cinematic brand. I only hope the comic based genre isn't going to become over saturated. If superman vs batman is bad I think it will sink the entire genre.
