According to MTV News and Entertainment Weekly, Marvel is adding more new shows to their swelling universe. ABC has renewed Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which, despite its modest ratings and reviews, should surprise no one, and ABC has also green-lit the Captain America spin-off Agent Carter. The official description from ABC is: “Marvel’s Agent Carter, starring Captain America’s Hayley Atwell follows the story of Peggy Carter. It’s 1946, and peace has dealt Peggy Carter a serious blow as she finds herself marginalized when the men return home from fighting abroad. Working for the covert SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve), Peggy must balance doing administrative work and going on secret missions for Howard Stark all while trying to navigate life as a single woman in America, in the wake of losing the love of her life — Steve Rogers. Inspired by the feature films Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, along with the short Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter. Marvel’s Agent Carter stars Hayley Atwell as Agent Peggy Carter. Executive producers are Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters, Steve McFeely & Christopher Marcus, and Jeph Loeb.”
With new shows in the works for Netflix, plus a slew of films planned through 2028 (at which point Robert Downey Jr. will be 63), Marvel’s inflationary epoch is startling to resemble the galaxy-eating Galactus.
The ever-expanding Marvel Universe is, in a way, keeping in spirit with the comics, which began as a series of fairly linear, individual stories that occasionally crossed paths, and gradually intertwined and interwove and enmeshed until only the most ardently dedicated comic reader could discern the various universes, timelines, reboots, and dopplegangers.
Anyone who grew up in the ’90s probably began reading comics in the beginning of the end, when Peter Parker was replaced by a clone, and superheroes were getting killed left and right. DC became noticeably darker after Frank Miller and Alan Moore turned the superhero into neo-fascist vigilantes in the Reagan Era, and Marvel responded by splaying its narratives in so many directions that the first 121 issues of The Amazing Spider-Man, which cover over a decade of comics, seems almost quaintly simple by comparison.
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