They giveth with one hand – Marvel Studios has set up Marvel TV, a shingle to bring Mighty Marvel Superheroes to your home – and they taketh away with the other – Jeph Loeb has been set up as the head of the division.
Loeb, one of the worst comic writers imaginable, has already has his hands in small-screen superheroics – Heroes, the abysmal NBC series. Why that would be a positive mark on anyone’s resume is beyond me, but then I also don’t understand how Loeb keeps getting comic writing work when it seems that he has not the slightest affinity for it.
Loeb will be working with Marvel publisher Dan Bradley not just on live action TV shows but also animation and Direct to DVD projects. There’s no telling which characters will be getting the television treatment first, but I hope that Loeb is involved only in a soulless suit sort of way.