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The Marvels Project (2010)

by Ed Brubaker(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1846534453 (ISBN13: 9781846534454)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Panini Comics (Marvel)

review 1: Yes, I've been working on running through Ed Brubaker's time at Marvel Comics (excluding Daredevil). Here Brubaker makes very good use of Marvel continuity and history. When one evaluates the entire catalog of characters available to the company (pre-Disney ownership this included almost the entire Timely Comics line of the 1940s) it makes a good deal of sense to center a story around lesser known characters. That permits the creative team more leeway in character development and what one one does to characters (ex: kill a couple off, introduce one).Combing a little bit (emphasis on little) bit of time travel (re: Matthew Hawk) with the early 1940s we see the beginning of the career of the non-superpowered Angel. Much like the use of narrative character in Marvels the ... moreAngel is a ground floor view to the introduction of superheroes to the world (Captain America, Human Torch and Sub-Mariner)And, the book well drawn by Steve Epting.
review 2: Great idea to do a mini-run on the origins of the first superheroes. Follows the Human Torch, Capt. America, and Prince Namor primarily. Origin stories with a separate story arc in Europe in WWII following a young Nick Fury and John Steele. Narrated by a hero named the "angel" who is drawn into the story line by other means and so his dialogue on the life of a masked hero coincides with the adventures and creation of Cap. I thought the art by Steve Epting was great in this series. The gritty humanness and yet a flare for the fantastic. Pleasantly surprised. less

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