The Marvel Book: Expand Your Knowledge Of A Vast Comics Universe

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The Marvel Book is an exhilarating journey through the endlessly fascinating, ever-dynamic, and awe-inspiring Marvel Comics universe. Dorling Kindersley's 'The Marvel Book' turns out to be a very useful guide to the 'vast' comics universe created by Marvel over many decades. What we have here is a mythology more complex than anything created in the Ancient World, the product of thousands of creative minds. Collating all this information is no mean achievement. The attraction of the book is that it tries so hard to do the impossible - to make this universe coherent. The Greeks could not do this with a much more limited range of material. Das Marvel-Universe ist groß. Sehr groß sogar, wenn man nicht nur die vielen Charaktere bedenkt, sondern auch ihre verschiedenen Versionen in anderen Universen. Ganz schön viel Stoff der hier kompakt, aber auch interessant zusammentragen wurde und dabei Fans der Comics, als auch der Filme ansprechen dürfte. Das Stichwort ist hier Hintergrundwissen. Wer schon immer mal ein wenig mehr über den ein oder anderen Marvel-Charakter erfahren wollte, ist hier goldrichtig. Besonders gelungen empfand ich dabei die kleinen grauen Listen unter den Bildern der einzelnen Personen, in welcher man grob erfuhr, welche Kräfte, welche Mission und welche Zugehörigkeit der Held, die Heldin oder der Schurke und die Schurkin hatten. While in the large book, it feels like a solid re-telling and even celebration of old Spidey, here it is a brief blow-by-blow account of his appearances in various crises where he fought with six heroes and against eight villians as each is named with a common spliced sentence. Each important event in his life gets a sentence. So it goes for almost every entry.

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Nevertheless, the concept of Prime Earth, the cosmic horrors like Galactus, the many levels of cosmic power, the most notable superheroes from Asgard to the team-ups, the characters drawn from both science and magic and the great space adventures are all well covered. Of course, the effort eventually becomes almost insane by the time that we get to the last section ('Alternate Worlds and Divergent Timelines'). Even the authors recognise that having so many heroes constantly die and be revived and having so many variants is taking credibility to the limit. The second book in the hit Young Prince series from Ronald L. Smith, recipient of the 2016 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award.

Unterstützt wurde das Ganze vom wirklich sehr angenehmen Schreibstil des Autors, welcher wirklich versuchte selbst schwierige Verbindungen oder Beziehungen verständlich zu erklären. Discover the craft of writing comics the Marvel way, with scripts and commentary from top writers and editors. The book's content is divided into key subject areas-The Multiverse, Science and Technology, War and Peace, Cosmic Forces, Magic and the Supernatural, and Alternate Realities-that form the foundations of Marvel Comics. The Marvel Book is a revealing and invaluable roadmap to a boundless comics universe that no Marvel fan will want to miss!

The Marvel Book: Expand Your Knowledge of a Vast Comics The Marvel Book: Expand Your Knowledge of a Vast Comics

Let me start off by saying, that the material covered in this book was of a very broad range, though there were gaps. Many varied topics were covered, and they were wide ranging and interesting. The art, graphics and charts were also very informative and quite well done. Culture & Lifestyle Explore the MCU with 'THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE AN OFFICIAL TIMELINE' - Available Now The core Marvel film canon and classic heroes are understandable enough but, of course, we are talking about comic book editors constantly trying to feed a highly volatile market and reaching out to girls, adult fans, minority groups and horror fans. Impossible complexity is written into the project.The Marvel Cinematic Universe gave us a glimpse into the interconnected universe of Marvel. But, the comics make it look as deep as a paddling pool. So, if you want to learn about the vast comics universe, use The Marvel Book as your guide! The Marvel Book is a breath-taking tour of literally every concept that forms the gloriously bewildering and expansive Marvel Multiverse... an indispensable guide." Starburst The book's content is divided into key subject areas-The Multiverse, Science and Technology, War and Peace, Cosmic Forces, Magic and the Supernatural, and Alternate Realities-that form the foundations of Marvel Comics. The Marvel Bookis a revealing and invaluable roadmap to a boundless comics universe that no Marvel fan will want to miss! Combining DK's four-level reading program with the ever-popular Marvel comics, this book will help kids learn how to read—and learn to love reading via Marvel’s popular character Ms. Marvel. How did a teenager become an extraordinary Super Hero? Meet Kamala Khan, AKA Ms. Marvel, an amazing hero who can stretch and bend in any shape she likes! Join Kamala and her allies as she battles the enemies who threaten Jersey City, New York. What did not was the writing style. I felt like I was reading a textbook about superheroes and it was very off-putting. I do not read books like this, books about comics and superheroes, to have them read like college level material I am being tested on! These books are supposed to be entertaining, engaging and fun, not written as if the author, or authors wanted to see how many multi-syllable words they could cram into a single sentence to prove their intelligence.