New York Comic Con News: At the New York Comic Con Marvel Comics announced the spring 2015 debut of James Patterson’s Max Ride: First Flight, a five-issue miniseries adapting the first volume in Patterson’s hit series of YA novels. Marvel’s Max Ride miniseries will be written by Marguerite Bennett and drawn by artist Alex Sanchez.
Patterson’s Maximum Ride novels have already been adapted into manga by Yen Press, and they have proven to be the bestselling original English language manga series of all time, and a consistent presence on ICv2’s survey of top manga properties in North America (see "Top Manga Properties--Spring 2014"), but according to the Wall St. Journal Patterson will allow Marvel more freedom in its four-color adaptation that he gave Yen Press in an earlier agreement, saying: "I’ve given Marvel license. In fact, I’ve encouraged them to make this Marvel’s Max Ride, so I expect some changes in the story. I expect we’ll age the kids a bit... I’d like them to mess with it. It’s obviously a very visual series, which I think is great. My hope is that it will be the best series I’ve ever done. That’s what I want to happen."
Not only is the Maximum Ride property, which deals with flying winged teenagers, right in Marvel’s creative wheelhouse, it will give the House of Ideas a property that hordes of young readers are familiar with, and so function like an outreach to a new generation of potential comic book readers.
Based on the Popular YA Novel Series
Posted by ICv2 on October 13, 2014 @ 2:37 pm CT
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