Marvel and WEBTOON Unveil First Original Webcomic Slate

Marvel and WEBTOON revealed the first wave of original Marvel webcomic series during Marvel’s Next Big Thing panel at San Diego Comic-Con, introducing three all-new Marvel stories created exclusively for WEBTOON and designed specifically for the platform’s vertical-scroll format.

The slate includes “Tony’s Girl,” written by CRC Payne with art by StarBite. The series follows 17-year-old Tony Stark after he graduates from MIT and expects to spend the summer pushing innovation forward at a Stark Industries internship. Howard Stark, frustrated by bad press from Tony’s underage partying, instead sends him to an etiquette class while working on a deal to push rival Creighton McCall out of the electronics industry for good. There, Tony is thrown together with Meredith McCall, who sees him as smug, spoiled and representative of everything she hates about her father’s world. As understanding and friendship develop, deeper feelings lead to a first love neither saw coming, despite their fathers’ rivalry.

“That Time Deadpool Fell Into WEBTOON... and Found The Longest Title of All Time!!!” is written by Ucheomaaa with art by Annie Huang. The series follows Deadpool after he becomes the target of a trap that pulls him into the chaotic WEBTOON-verse, where regency drama, superhuman cage matches, post-apocalyptic wastelands and terrifyingly well-dressed Korean teens stand between him and a way back home.

“X-Men Korea,” from Studio LICO, follows Yeong-seo Go, an ordinary Korean high school student who suddenly awakens as a mutant. After joining the Hoseok Academy for the Gifted, he must fight a conspiracy involving a megacorporation championing human evolution, while confronting the secret of his hidden power and a plot that could shake the future of humanity.

Source: WEBTOON

Dan Sarto is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network.