Ron Marz

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name = Ron Marz

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notable works = "Silver Surfer"
"Green Lantern"
"Marvel vs DC"
"Batman/Aliens"
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Ron Marz is an American comic book writer.

Biography

Marz is well known for his work on "Silver Surfer" and "Green Lantern," as well as the "Marvel vs DC" crossover and "Batman/Aliens". He also worked on the CrossGen Comics series "Scion", "Mystic", "Sojourn", and "The Path". At Dark Horse Comics he created "" and various "Star Wars" comics. He has also done work for Devil's Due Publishing's Aftermath line, namely "Blade of Kumori". In 1995, he had a brief run on XO-Manowar, for Valiant Comics.

While being chiefly responsible for bringing popularity back to Green Lantern and introducing a new generation (and boost in sales) to the series, Marz received criticism from factions of the fandom for his part in turning the character of Hal Jordan into a mass murderer in order to make way for a new Green Lantern character, Kyle Rayner. He has also been criticized for the perceived misogynistic tone of his writing, in particular a story he wrote for "Green Lantern" which inspired the name of the Women in Refrigerators website. Marz reported receiving numerous hate letters and death threats. [ [http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=004682 Comicon.Com: Ron Marz Initial Ion Thoughts ] ] He returned to the "Green Lantern" series after an absence to pen the final arc of the book's third volume, then the 12-issue "Ion" maxi-series.

Marz's more recent works includes a number of Top Cow books including "Witchblade" and an upcoming "Cyberforce" relaunch. For DC Comics, he has written "Ion", a 12 part comic book miniseries that followed the Kyle Rayner character after the "One Year Later" event, and "Tales of the Sinistro Corps Presents: Parallax" and "Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Ion", two one-shot tie-ins to the Green Lantern crossover, "The Sinestro Corps War".

Having been a lifelong fan of the character, Ron was the brain behind Moonstone Books' 2006 Annual featuring "The Phantom", and was responsible for getting writers Chuck Dixon, Mike Bullock, Tony Bedard, and Rafael Nieves participate with chapters for the book. [ [http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=8370 Marz, Dixon, Bedard, Nieves & Bullock talk "The Phantom Annual"] , Comic Book Resources, October 19, 2006] Marz has also signed on to write a short story with the character for one of Moonstone's upcoming Phantom prose collections.

Recently, Virgin Comics announced that Marz would be joining as editor of three of their Shakti Line titles: "Devi", "Ramayan 3392 A.D." and "The Sadhu". [ [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=103314 Ron Marz Joins Virgin Comics] , Newsarama] He is also writing the series "Beyond", based on a story created by Deepak Chopra.

At Top Cow he is writing "Broken Trinity" about Witchblade, The Darkness and Angelus. [ [http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=17271 Ron Marz talks Broken Trinity] , Comic Book Resources, July 17, 2008] [ [http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080723-BrokenTrinity.html Ron Marz on Top Cow's Broken Trinity] , Newsarama, July 23, 2008] This led to the announcement at the 2008 Baltimore Comic-Con that he had signed an exclusive contract with Top Cow which will entail three comics a month - two "Top Cow Universe" titles and a creator-owned project. [ [http://www.newsarama.com/comics/09082-MarzTopCowExlcusive.html Baltimore 08: Ron Marz Signs Top Cow Exclusive] , Newsarama, September 29, 2008]

Bibliography

Comics work includes:

*"Beyond" (with Edison George, Virgin Comics, 2008)
*"Broken Trinity" (with Stjepan Sejic, 3-issue mini-series, Image Comics, 2008, forthcoming)

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References

*comicbookdb|type=creator|id=303|title=Ron Marz

External links

* [http://forums.comicbookresources.com/forumdisplay.php?f=46 Official message board] , Comic Book Resources
* [http://www.comicbloc.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=76 Official message board] m Comicbloc.com
* [http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=3059 Marz discusses his time on "Green Lantern"] , Comic Book Resources