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Cargando... All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told (edición 2021)por Douglas Wolk (Autor), Meighan Cavanaugh (Diseñador), Will Staeble (Jacket design), Lisa Gidley (Author photograph)
Información de la obraAll of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told por Douglas Wolk
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 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. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"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"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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