Greg's Blog of Clue-By-Fours

brevoortformspring:

>Have Marvel ever considered doing an event and then having readers decided the outcome of something. DC obviously did something with a phone vote in the 80s, but I dont think Marvel ever followed suit. In the age of everyone loving reality TV and phone voting and stuff, would it not be a bit of a money spinner to do a phone/SMS vote as if the reader was the Living Tribunal making a decision? This isn’t a suggestion that Marvel should do such a thing, but a question as to if it has ever been considered?>

We did this as part of the Marvel vs DC series years ago—and pretty much nobody was happy with the results.

That sort of fan judging on contests and the like makes sense, but it’s not the same thing for storytelling. Storytelling isn’t a democracy, and it never works best that way.