Create Your Own Comic

Marvel has a new online project - Create Your Own Comic. Choose from your favorite Marvel superheroes and villains, compose a story, and design comic panels once it goes online (you can register now).

Marvel has a few rules about the stories you can create, in the Terms and Conditions. Here's some of what you can't do:

• Content that could frighten or upset young children or the parents of young children
• Prescription drugs or over-the-counter medication, vitamins, and dietary supplements
• Contraceptives
• Depictions of alcohol (hard liquor, beer, wine, etc.), tobacco (cigars, cigarettes, etc.), or drugs (marijuana, etc.)
• Sexually explicit images (pornography, etc.) and nudity, suggestive or revealing images (bare midriffs, lets, etc.)
• Sensationalism (killer bees, gossip, aliens, scandal, etc.)
• Potentially slanderous or libellous content
• Obscenity, bad or offensive language, proxies for bad or offensive language (X@#%!), body parts, or noises related to bodily functions
• Politics (lobbyists, PAC sites, political campaigns, alternative lifestyle advocacies)
• Gambling (excluding state lotteries, sweepstakes and fantasy leagues)
• Graphic violence (including certain types of game sites) unless approved by Tap Tap on a case-by-case basis
• Guns (firearms, bullets, etc.)
• Death
• Discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age
• Images or content that is in any way unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, or harassing
• Unauthorized or unapproved use of Marvel creative assets (such as talent, logos, characters, movie logos, theme park imagery, color scheme, font[s])
• Other controversial topics (social issues, etc.)
• Unreasonable or highly unlikely product or service claims
• Double entendres
• Amusement parks (other than Disney amusement parks)
• Movie studios (other than studios affiliated with Marvel)
• Animated movies (other than Marvel or Disney movies)
• Any content that is otherwise inappropriate for children
• Any content that is otherwise fraudulent, deceptive, infringing, racially offensive, sexually explicit, threatening, hateful, harassing, disparaging, libelous (including trade libel), slanderous, or defamatory

So, nothing like a typical comic book. Also, anything you write becomes the property of Marvel and you can't share it. The project will probably become more famous about the restrictions.