Marville

In 2002, Marvel published Marville, a seven-issue series by writer Bill Jemas and artists Mark Bright, Mark D. Bright, and Philippe Bialobos. The series is a satirical, meta-commentary on the comic book industry itself, following a young boy named Marville who gains the power to manipulate reality—a premise that allows the book to directly parody Marvel’s own characters, business decisions, and the state of superhero comics at the time. It remains a curious, often polarizing artifact of early-2000s Marvel, notable for its unflinching, insider critique of the very medium it inhabits.