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Lädt ... All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told (2021. Auflage)von Douglas Wolk (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 4.5 rounded up to 5, a comprehensive overview of the history of various Marvel lines through ~60 years in print. Douglas Wolk read nearly everything in the Marvel Universe published between 1961 and 2017 (though I'm sure he's continued for some lines since), so these are his tour posts when considering it all as one ~500,000 page omnibus work. I thought the Iron Patriot/POTUS 45 comparisons were apt (especially considering the Iron Patriot storyline took place earlier in time), and I thought his chapter on Shang-Chi was thoughtful in considering what it was for the time. Author Douglas Wolk took on the monumental task of reading every Marvel comic and this book is the highlights of his total immersion in the universe. The book isn't truly a memoir, although plenty of Wolk's personality shines through, nor is it a summary of the entire narrative, although the appendix does a very brief version of that. Instead, after spending a couple chapters on what comics he included or excluded in the project and clearly outlining what his goals were in undertaking the project, Wolk takes the reader on a tour through some of the major arcs that stood out to him. Whether it's a chapter on the turning web-like nature of Spider-Man's story, the compelling ways that the X-Men use its central metaphor, or how Squirrel Girl and Kamala Khan's Ms. Marvel are challenging everything that's expected of superhero comics, Wolk explores his theme while highlighting specific issues of note in the journey. Interspersed are shorter chapters that take on other Marvel-related issues like the appearance of various presidents in the comics, the various announcements of Marvel related films that happened over the decades before the MCU as we know it now, or how the Marvel universe might really be about Linda Carter, night nurse. Wolk's love of comics is obvious throughout but he doesn't shy away from the flaws in a world created predominantly by cis-het white men for so long (and fully cognizant that Wolk himself is one as well). Whether you're a long-time, hardcore Marvel comics fan, someone who follows select arcs of interest (like me), or just interested in what all the fuss can possibly be about after over fifty years, there's joy to be found in this read. Recommended. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics' interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the "epic of epics"--and to the past 60 years of American culture--from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+ Marvel superhero comics and lived to tell the tale. The superhero comic books that Marvel Comics has published since 1961 are, Douglas Wolk notes, the longest continuous, self-contained work of fiction ever created: over half a million pages to date, and growing. The Marvel story is a gigantic mountain, smack in the middle of contemporary culture. Thousands of writers and artists have contributed to it. Every schoolchild recognizes its protagonists: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men. 18 of the 100 highest-grossing movies of all time are directly based on parts of it. And not even the people telling the story have read the whole thing--nobody's supposed to. So, of course, that's what Wolk did: he read all 27,000 comics that make up the Marvel universe thus far, from Alpha Flight to Omega the Unknown. And then he made sense of it: seeing into the ever-expanding story, in its parts and as a coherent whole, and seeing through it, as a prism through which to view the landscape of American culture. In Wolk's hands, the mammoth Marvel narrative becomes a funhouse-mirror history of the past 60 years, from the atomic night-terrors of the Cold War to the technocracy and political division of the present day--a boisterous, tragicomic, magnificently filigreed epic about power and ethics, set in a world transformed by wonders. As a work of cultural exegesis, this is sneakily significant, even a landmark; it's also ludicrously fun. Looking over close to sixty years of Marvel's comics, Wolk sees fascinating patterns -- the rise and fall of particular cultural aspirations, and of the storytelling modes that conveyed them. He observes the Marvel story's progressive visions and its painful stereotypes, its patches of woeful hackwork and stretches of luminous creativity, and the way they all feed into a potent cosmology that echoes our deepest hopes and fears. This is a huge treat for Marvel fans, but it's also a revelation for readers who don't know Doctor Strange from Doctor Doom. Here, truly, are all of the marvels"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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