Marvel Comics #1000 Comic Review
Summary: Take a time machine back to the dawn of Marvel Comics and see the thread that would wind its way through the Marvel Universe to this day and beyond.
4.5
Excelsior!
80 years… 80 years of Marvel comics…. that’s a lot of stories filled with a lot of characters. So what better way to pay tribute to that milestone than to create a comic that features a thread that has woven it’s way throughout the Marvel universe since Marvel Comics #1?
Writing
The flow of the story writing here is impressive… it would be very easy to have a lot of disjointed story fragments… pieces that whilst being related don’t really seem to go together. The writers have some how managed to make each little piece of this wider story fit together with a cohesive and compelling narrative that finds itself in all the familiar pockets of the Marvel Universe and doesn’t seem out of place in a single one. It binds them all together and adds that extra layer of intrigue to draw you ever deeper into this fantastic world.
Artwork
As befitting a tribute to the 80 years of fantastic story telling this collection stands as, the artwork runs through the styles of the ages. We have the more traditional art styles of the early comics, we have the more contemporary stylings and everything in between. The result is pages of wonderful art that will grab the reader and draw them in. Fantastic line art and vibrant colouring that can’t help but captivate the readers eyes and bring their eagerness to enter the amazing worlds to a fever pitch.
Final Thoughts
The idea of creating a collection that effectively traces the history of Marvel Comics by way of following a story thread from the origin of the comics themselves to the modern day is quite genius. The ability to have the story telling and art follow that history is equally brilliant and acts as both a time capsule of sorts and a compelling story in it’s own right. The end result is a comic that long time fans will love for the nostalgia value and soon to be fans will love for the quick catch up on all the major characters and happenings and the introduction to the Marvel Universe as a whole.
Publisher: Marvel
Writer: Kelly Thompson, Jeremy Whitley, Saladin Ahmed, Joe Hill (And more)
Artist: Alex Ross (And more)
Cover Artist: Alex Ross
Genre: Super Hero
Format: 90 pgs, FC
Release Date: 28th August, 2019
About the Author
Chris O'Connor Father of four, husband of one and all round oddity. Gaming at home since about 1982 with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Moving on to the more traditional PC genre in the years that followed with the classic Jump Joe and Alley Cat. CGA, EGA, VGA and beyond PC's have been central to my gaming but I've also enjoyed consoles and hand helds along the way (who remembers the Atari Lynx?). Would have been actor/film maker, jack of many trades master of none.
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