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The Return of Bill Jemas?

October 25th, 2011
Author Graeme McMillan

Heeeeee’s baaa-aaaack:

Well, now I understand [Bill Jemas] will be working for Wizard Comics, on their digital publications side. Whether this will be a full expose of his time at Marvel, some entertaining anecdotes or insisting that one issue of Wizard have no words at all, I don’t know.

I can’t tell you how much that I would enjoy a tell-all about the Jemas years at Marvel, but somehow I doubt that’s what he’s doing. That said, I’m not that surprised to see Jemas return to comics right now; there’s something romantically nostalgic about his era at Marvel right now, what with all the troubles the publisher is currently facing – or, for that matter, the success that DC is having, with an all-reader-friendly step-away-from-the-crossover attitude that recalls some of Jemas’ ideas for the House of Ideas way back when. It’ll be interesting to see if the Jemas at Wizard rumor turns out to be true, and if so, what he’s doing there. After all, if he rescued Marvel from disaster way back when, there’s no reason why he shouldn’t be able to do it for Wizard…

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