Some fun brainstorming about Marion Ravenwood, Indy's better half / by J.C. Hutchins

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Here's a spur-of-the-moment pitch, just for fun: MARION is an animated series and comic book series that document the adventures of Marion Ravenwood in two different times in her life:

  • As a child, traveling the world with her archeaologist father Abner and her friends (this is the animated series)

  • And after the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark with some of those same friends—and with the odd cameo by Indy, Sallah, etc. (this is the comic series)

Occasionally, the events of the kids show and the comic book intersect:

  • Artifacts might become "lost" in the cartoon and resurface decades later in the comic for adult Marion to pursue...

  • Nascent villainous forces in the cartoon become full-fledged global cults years later in the comic...

  • Family mysteries hinted at in Marion's childhood are finally unearthed in the comic…

The show and the comic series easily stand on their own, but watchful audience members will see the connective tissue and learn more about Marion's amazing life—which at many times had moments even more awe-inspiring and death-defying than Indiana Jones' adventures—along the way.