| Ron Marz | |
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 Marz at theNew York Comic Con in Manhattan, October 9, 2010 | |
| Born | (1965-11-17)November 17, 1965 (age 60) Kingston, New York, U.S. |
| Area | Writer |
Notable works | Batman/Aliens DC vs. Marvel Green Lantern Silver Surfer Witchblade |
Ron Marz (born November 17, 1965[1]) is an Americancomic book writer, known for his work on titles such asBatman/Aliens,DC vs. Marvel,Green Lantern,Silver Surfer, andWitchblade.
Marz is known for his work onSilver Surfer andGreen Lantern, as well as theDC vs. Marvel crossover[2] andBatman/Aliens. He co-createdGenis-Vell inSilver Surfer Annual #6 (1993).[3] Marz worked on theCrossGen Comics seriesScion,Mystic,Sojourn, andThe Path. AtDark Horse Comics he createdSamurai: Heaven and Earth and variousStar Wars comics. He has written forDevil's Due Publishing's Aftermath line includingBlade of Kumori. In 1995, he had a brief run onX-O Manowar forValiant Comics. The following year, Marz wrote theDC/Marvel: All Access limited series which was anintercompany crossover between DC and Marvel characters.[4]
While writingGreen Lantern, Marz wrote the "Emerald Twilight" storyline,[5] in which the character ofHal Jordan, stricken with grief, became amass murderer, leading to the destruction of theGreen Lantern Corps, andKyle Rayner being chosen at random as the last Green Lantern.
Marz's 2000s work includes a number ofTop Cow Productions comic books, includingWitchblade, which he wrote from issue #80 (Nov. 2004) to issue #150 (Dec. 2011), plus a number of specials and crossover stories featuring the character, such asWitchblade/ThePunisher in 2007 andWitchblade/Devi in 2008. His other Top Cow work includesCyberforce #1–6 in 2006 andCyberforce/X-Men in 2007.
ForDC Comics, he has writtenIon,[6] a 12-part comic book miniseries that followed the Kyle Rayner character after theOne Year Later event, andTales of theSinestro Corps Presents: Parallax andTales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Ion, two one-shot tie-ins to the Green Lantern crossover,The Sinestro Corps War.
Marz wroteMoonstone Books' 2006 annual featuringThe Phantom, and recruited writersChuck Dixon,Mike Bullock,Tony Bedard, and Rafael Nieves to participate with chapters for the book.[7]
Marz became an editor of three ofVirgin Comics' Shakti Line titles in 2007 and oversawDevi,Ramayan 3392 A.D. andThe Sadhu.[8] He wrote theBeyond series, based on a story created byDeepak Chopra.
In 2008 Marz wroteBroken Trinity, which featured the charactersWitchblade,The Darkness, andAngelus, as well as the tie-in series,Broken Trinity: Witchblade,Broken Trinity: Angelus (2008), andBroken Trinity: Aftermath (2009).[9][10] He signed an exclusive contract withTop Cow, which saw him write three comics a month: two forMarc Silvestri's Top Cow universe, and acreator-owned project.[11]
In 2011, Marz was the writer onVoodoo, which was part of DC Comics' company-wide title relaunch,The New 52.[12]
In 2020 Marz collaborated withAndy Lanning on the nine-issueDC Comicscrossover storyline "Endless Winter", which would debut that December.[13]
In 1999,Gail Simone introduced the termWomen in Refrigerators to highlight a troubling trend in comic narratives: the use of female characters' suffering—through death, injury, or assault—as mere plot devices to advance male protagonists' stories. This concept was sparked by an event in a 1994 Green Lantern issue written by Ron Marz, where Kyle Rayner discovers his girlfriendAlexandra DeWitt's fate at the hands of the villainMajor Force, who had murdered her and left her body in a refrigerator. Simone's critique aimed to shed light on the broader issue of gender bias and the disposability of female characters within the genre.[14]
In response, Marz stated: "To me the real difference is less male-female than main character-supporting character. In most cases, main characters, 'title' characters who support their own books, are male. ... the supporting characters are the ones who suffer the more permanent and shattering tragedies. And a lot of supporting characters are female."[15] He also further explained:[15]
I created her [Alexandra DeWitt] with the intention of having her be murdered at the hands of Major Force. I took a lot of care in building her as a character, because I wanted her to be liked and her death to mean something to the readers. I wanted readers to be horrified at the crime, and to empathize with Kyle's loss. Her death was meant to bring brutal realization to Kyle that being GL [Green Lantern] wasn't fun and games. It was also meant to sever his links with his old life, paving the way for his move to New York. And ultimately I wanted her death to be memorable and illustrate just how truly heinous Major Force was. Thus the fridge.
As of 2013, Marz lives inDuanesburg, New York.[16]
Written by Peter David and Ron Marz with art by Dan Jurgens and Claudio Castellini, this four-issue miniseries event consisted of five major battles voted on in advance by reader ballots distributed to comic stores.
Writer Ron Marz and penciller Joe Phillips created Genis-Vell...Originally going under the code name Legacy...He was later known as Captain Marvel.
| Preceded by | Silver Surfer vol. 3 writer 1990–1995 (with Jim Starlin in 1990–1991) | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Thor writer 1993–1994 (with Jim Starlin in 1993) | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Green Lantern vol. 3 writer 1994–2000 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by n/a | Mystic writer 2000–2001 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Green Lantern vol. 3 writer 2004 | Succeeded by |
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