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Marvel is Marvelous
Feb. 1st, 2012 05:30 pm(And I love redundancy. *grin*)
Encouraged by the recent swath of movies, downloading and watching almost all of the animated X-Men, the fact that I've always wanted to get into comics and didn't know where to start, and that my roommate is also starting to read comics and is a Good Influence on me - I'm reading Marvel Comics. And I love it. :)
I've mostly been reading X-Men, but a few Avengers bits and pieces have worked their way in as well. And most recently I read Neil Gaiman's Marvel 1602 - which is Amazing.
The art is gorgeous! The story is well done. And how could you not love the Marvel characters in the Elizabethan Period? - Especially when they're made to fit in there so well?
My roommate got it out of the library and I'm super glad she did (see? Good Influence!). It's really cool to see how the characters are different and how they are the same. It's a canon AU! And it does it well!
Also it's Neil Gaiman.
But for my own sake I'm transcribing a bit from Sir Reed Richards, Natural Philosopher, because I agree whole heartedly.
Sue Storm: So what are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?
Sir Reed Richards: Stories. And they give me hope. We are a boatful of monsters and miracles, hoping that, somehow, we can survive a world in which all hands are against us. A world which, by all evidence, will end extremely soon. Yet I posit we are in a universe which favours stories. A universe in which no story can ever truly end; in which there can only be continuances. If we are in such a universe, as I hope, then we may have a chance.
...
The Thing: Reed -- you spoke of transmutations. Can you restore me to my humanity? I have been a monster too long.
Sir Reed Richards: In truth I do not know, my friend. The natural sciences say yes, a cure is possible. But the laws of a story would suggest that no cure can last for very long, Benjamin. For in the end, alas, you are so much more interesting and satisfying as you are.
So... now I need some comics icons. I'll get on that.
Encouraged by the recent swath of movies, downloading and watching almost all of the animated X-Men, the fact that I've always wanted to get into comics and didn't know where to start, and that my roommate is also starting to read comics and is a Good Influence on me - I'm reading Marvel Comics. And I love it. :)
I've mostly been reading X-Men, but a few Avengers bits and pieces have worked their way in as well. And most recently I read Neil Gaiman's Marvel 1602 - which is Amazing.
The art is gorgeous! The story is well done. And how could you not love the Marvel characters in the Elizabethan Period? - Especially when they're made to fit in there so well?
My roommate got it out of the library and I'm super glad she did (see? Good Influence!). It's really cool to see how the characters are different and how they are the same. It's a canon AU! And it does it well!
Also it's Neil Gaiman.
But for my own sake I'm transcribing a bit from Sir Reed Richards, Natural Philosopher, because I agree whole heartedly.
Sue Storm: So what are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?
Sir Reed Richards: Stories. And they give me hope. We are a boatful of monsters and miracles, hoping that, somehow, we can survive a world in which all hands are against us. A world which, by all evidence, will end extremely soon. Yet I posit we are in a universe which favours stories. A universe in which no story can ever truly end; in which there can only be continuances. If we are in such a universe, as I hope, then we may have a chance.
...
The Thing: Reed -- you spoke of transmutations. Can you restore me to my humanity? I have been a monster too long.
Sir Reed Richards: In truth I do not know, my friend. The natural sciences say yes, a cure is possible. But the laws of a story would suggest that no cure can last for very long, Benjamin. For in the end, alas, you are so much more interesting and satisfying as you are.
So... now I need some comics icons. I'll get on that.
