All Of The Marvels Author Douglas Wolk On The Biggest Story Ever Winner of the 2022 eisner award for best comics related book a new york times book review editor's choice 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 sixty years of american culture—from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000 marvel superhero comics and lived to. Selected as a top book of 2021 by mother jones, new hampshire public radio, and the maine edge a new york times book review editors’ choice “highly enjoyable . . . mr. wolk brings to his task insight, humor and a deep love of marvel.” —the wall street journal “wolk, an engaging and generous critic, structures [all of the marvels] as a part guide, part reflection on the nature of.
All Of The Marvels A Journey To The Ends Of The Biggest Story Ever The marvel universe, says writer douglas wolk, contains the biggest story that has ever been told. "it all happens in the same setting," he said. "stories that happened in 1961 or 1962 have. Douglas wolk. the superhero comic books that marvel comics has published since 1961 are, as douglas wolk notes, the longest continuous, self contained work of fiction ever created: over half a million pages to date, and still growing. the marvel story is a gigantic mountain smack in the middle of contemporary culture. All of the marvels a journey to the ends of the biggest story ever told by douglas wolk if western popular culture has a common idiom, a force that binds us all, the stories contained in marvel. The story arcs of marvel, published over the last several decades, involve thousands of characters and 27,000 comic books, becoming what the writer calls the longest continuous, self contained.
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