MARVEL BOY 2 (2002)
Marvel Boy 2 - apparently subtitled ‹ The End of the Way That Was › - would see Phil Winslade taking over from J. G. Jones on art duties. The series was intended to be the culmination of Morrison’s long standing obsession with Jim Starlin and Steve Englehart’s cosmic comics of the 1970’s (Morrison dubbed his own take on them ’ Kosmic Komicschze ') .
From an interview with Newsarama,
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« He [Bill Jemas, then-Marvel publisher] simply didn’t like the fluorescent overtones of what I was doing in Marvel Boy 2 , and asked me if I was prepared to try a different and more down-to-earth approach to the basic idea of angry alien boy trapped on Earth. My original series pitch and scripts were based in a horrible super-security prison called the Cube, home of the most deranged inhuman mutants and motherfuckers on the face of the Earth. Grotesques like Daddy Heart, Alan Satan and the Spider Sisters filled every page and the whole thing was a very fast-paced religious satire in the Marvel Cosmic style. »
It’s been rumoured that Winslade’s art for the first issue of Marvel Boy 2 was completed before the plug was pulled on the project. Given Morrison’s usual Marvel-style scripting - it’s unlikely more than a rough draft of the subsquent issues exist. There were hints that some of the ideas Morrison had for Marvel Boy 2 might make their way over to a Captain Marvel Jr . series at DC. Unfortunately, that too remains unpublished.
Jemas’ hostility toward any proposed sequels to the Marvel Boy series was a large factor in Morrison’s decision to sign an exclusive deal with DC in 2003.