The Marvels Project
Oct. 20th, 2009 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiffieI am very, very happy with Marvel's offerings of late.
The wonderful Invaders-era mentions in Captain America, the recent Torch series, and the multitude of books set in the Golden Age (The Young Allies, The Marvels Project, the Sub-Mariner specials). This is what I would wait years for, when I was wee. I was so happy any time someone would get a WWII story through, any time the Invaders or the All-Winners would pop up in a story or get a one-shot. I'm fairly sure I own every WWII-centric, non-Wolverine Marvel comic that got published in the 90s. And now, within the span of a year, I may have almost doubled my little collection.
Further, the Human Torch is getting one hell of a spotlight. He's featured pretty heavily in a lot of stuff. And it's good stuff. In previous books, his origin would get retold often enough, and his battles with Namor always made for a good splash. But it wasn't until I read through the most recent Marvels Project that I realized: No one had really ever gone beyond that. Sure, the old Invaders series gave him tons of emo man pain moments, but it's not like the books were terribly deep. This issue, though? It had two pages-- TWO --of Jim just being a cop. That's more than I've ever seen on the subject, anywhere. And, y'know? I want to read that.
I want to read about Torch-as-a-cop dealing with life and humanity and the superhero battles being sidenotes. I have a few issues of Martian Manhunter that I'd love to cite as why-this-works evidence, but they're at home. Rest-assured, the best parts of any Martian Manhunter series deal with John Jones being an awesome detective.
TL;DR -- GO BUY THE MARVELS PROJECT AND ANYTHING ELSE WITH GOLDEN AGE MARVEL. IT IS AMAZING.
The wonderful Invaders-era mentions in Captain America, the recent Torch series, and the multitude of books set in the Golden Age (The Young Allies, The Marvels Project, the Sub-Mariner specials). This is what I would wait years for, when I was wee. I was so happy any time someone would get a WWII story through, any time the Invaders or the All-Winners would pop up in a story or get a one-shot. I'm fairly sure I own every WWII-centric, non-Wolverine Marvel comic that got published in the 90s. And now, within the span of a year, I may have almost doubled my little collection.
Further, the Human Torch is getting one hell of a spotlight. He's featured pretty heavily in a lot of stuff. And it's good stuff. In previous books, his origin would get retold often enough, and his battles with Namor always made for a good splash. But it wasn't until I read through the most recent Marvels Project that I realized: No one had really ever gone beyond that. Sure, the old Invaders series gave him tons of emo man pain moments, but it's not like the books were terribly deep. This issue, though? It had two pages-- TWO --of Jim just being a cop. That's more than I've ever seen on the subject, anywhere. And, y'know? I want to read that.
I want to read about Torch-as-a-cop dealing with life and humanity and the superhero battles being sidenotes. I have a few issues of Martian Manhunter that I'd love to cite as why-this-works evidence, but they're at home. Rest-assured, the best parts of any Martian Manhunter series deal with John Jones being an awesome detective.
TL;DR -- GO BUY THE MARVELS PROJECT AND ANYTHING ELSE WITH GOLDEN AGE MARVEL. IT IS AMAZING.
