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“An audacious project this, to read and critique all the Marvel superhero comics from 1961 to the present, in publication order, and could have so easily become one Don Heck of a slog we’re it not for the soothing charm of the main presenters and their guests, with their wry affection, their scholarly wonder and blithely issued retreats into Low Dad Gaggery. All delights, even when we should know better. Lo, If Mine Ears be Thy Enabler, as the rejected title for a 1961 Tales of Suspense backup put it. Still, the diligence and good grace of these American fellows allows us to skip through time at a Multiple of Four, four weeks into one, just like the Musketeer hands at the close of the Fantastic Four origin panel (here hands replace weeks or months) or if you’re British and over 45, just like the weekly frequency of US reprints in weekly Mighty World of Marvel and her Brtiannic stablemates, a pace of Stakhanovite production and Elvis consumption, which left us wondering in 1977 whether British reprints would actually overtake the US originals and start reprinting as a temporal simulacra, reprints of stories that would not be drawn for months, years, even decades to come. Yet still black and white, with injudicious use of zip tone that fooled nobody but the wilfully insane. Of course now you can read the stories in full colour/Color on Marvel Unlimited for really not very much money, which in itself seems like a wonderful thing, but made more purposeful by following the critical hijinks of my newest para-social friends, whom I have taken to my heart in the massively imbalanced way that we para-socialites favour above all else, forever and with unremitting fervour. Keep up the good work, dear chaps.”
Se Gre via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
12/12/21
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United States of America ·
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