Hipster George R.R. Martin was doing superhero prose fiction before its was cool.

I remember having my mind blown back in 1987 upon discovering te first volume of Martin's Wild Cards superhero fiction anthology series. It essentially invented the genre, and it did so with wit, style, and clever nods to pop culture, like naming a character "Jetboy", a nod to The New York Dolls' "Jet Boy" and The Damned's "Jet Boy, Jet Girl."

Martin has obtained huge success with Game of Thrones, and now Wild Cards is poised to follow in it's footsteps. SyFy Films has picked up the film rights for Martin's superhero universe, which Martin described as an alternative to Marvel and DC's habitual cycle of events and retcons, telling the The Hollywood Reporter:

"The comics in the mainstream are doing retcons [retroactive continuity] all the time. [Heroes] get married, then one day, the publisher changes his mind, and then they're no longer married. To my mind, it's very frustrating. [Our stories] are in real time. It's a world that is changing in parallel to our own."

Martin went on to say that he's  hoping for the first Wild Cards film to spawn a franchise and possibly a television series as well.

Check out this fan letter to Marvel singing the praises of Fantastic Four #17. Yup, thats a young George R.R. Martin, before he became a fantasy/sci-fi legend (and before he added the second 'R').