Why Marvel’s Latest Podcast Is The Beginning Of A New Super-Genre

The last decade or so has born witness to a major surge in the audio medium. Podcasts and audio books are some of the most wonderful distractions a grown adult can hope for in quenching their thirst for nerd fiction in an otherwise boring setting. Anyone who uses public transport on their way to work will attest; what else are you supposed to do, talk? [Belly laugh]

So, will productions like Wolverine: The Long Night have a widespread appeal. The short answer is: “Oh, god yes.”

Now, the temptation would be to run to classic story arcs—and we’ll use Wolverine as the example—and bring to life sagas such as Old Man Logan or Origins, but these are perhaps familiar and obvious. The low-threat, high-reward medium of podcast could offer the ideal avenue in which to explore completely new stories with characters that would be optimised over the airwaves. We already have Cable coming to the Marvel universe in Deadpool 2, but what if Nate Summers and the Merc With a Mouth were to team up with Logan for a completely fresh take?

Read on for the final part...