Wild Cards and Game of Thrones certainly isn't 1:1 identical, but thinking on it now there is a lot of similar concepts.
Wild Cards brought a new level of realism to the "superhero" genre, by adding in a realistic world, serious consequences for actions, ugly violence, rape and sex to the genre which is mostly in comics that for the most part disallowed the vast majority of that stuff at the time.
Just like Game of Thrones kind of takes fantasy and leaves the Tolkien-esque innocence of it behind by adding in these unpleasant real life themes, Wild Cards took supers and left the Stan Lee-esque (?) innocence of mainstream comics behind in the same way.
When I read Wild Cards in the... early 90's (*cough*old*cough*) it changes the way how I viewed the genre, much like Game of Thrones does for many fantasy fans. It kind of makes you take a second look and kind of re-evaluate things that come before and since. One of those times where something is read or heard and you said "Well damn, I never really thought about it like that before".
Also, it followed the same storytelling pattern more or less, where each chapter would generally be from one character's point of view and so occasionally you would have two big moments that happen multiple times in the book, due to multiple characters telling their perspective of the event.
But no, he didn't write every chapter, he just edited them all to make sense and I guess wrote the main plot, having other writers do the individual chapters. Which is kind of cool as the writer could make a character, and consistently give that character voice throughout the series and such. This also explains how he could manage to get out a book every year or two instead of his current glacial pace.
Wild Cards brought a new level of realism to the "superhero" genre, by adding in a realistic world, serious consequences for actions, ugly violence, rape and sex to the genre which is mostly in comics that for the most part disallowed the vast majority of that stuff at the time.
Just like Game of Thrones kind of takes fantasy and leaves the Tolkien-esque innocence of it behind by adding in these unpleasant real life themes, Wild Cards took supers and left the Stan Lee-esque (?) innocence of mainstream comics behind in the same way.
When I read Wild Cards in the... early 90's (*cough*old*cough*) it changes the way how I viewed the genre, much like Game of Thrones does for many fantasy fans. It kind of makes you take a second look and kind of re-evaluate things that come before and since. One of those times where something is read or heard and you said "Well damn, I never really thought about it like that before".
Also, it followed the same storytelling pattern more or less, where each chapter would generally be from one character's point of view and so occasionally you would have two big moments that happen multiple times in the book, due to multiple characters telling their perspective of the event.
But no, he didn't write every chapter, he just edited them all to make sense and I guess wrote the main plot, having other writers do the individual chapters. Which is kind of cool as the writer could make a character, and consistently give that character voice throughout the series and such. This also explains how he could manage to get out a book every year or two instead of his current glacial pace.
