2. The Marvel Universe was a haphazard & bottom up creation of three men: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko & Stan Lee.
-
-
13. That's why the Marvel movies that work best -- Black Panther for instance -- are the ones that carve out a space from rest of over-stuffed universe, to get greater narrative weight & focus.
Show this thread -
14. All of which is to say that
@aoscott is, as always, spot on, in this in his suspicion of how the sprawling universe-ness of the Marvel universe itself defeats criticism.Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
And when you’re telling a story about faux-Zeus and faux-Mercury and faux-Icarus and Athena and so on, integrating them with a universe that has real-Zeus and so forth in it already is colossal dumb.
-
On the other hand, so is integrating a set of books premised on the idea that “the Old Gods died” with a universe in which the Old Gods keep showing up to crab at Wonder Woman. Which is probably why he never mentioned them.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Thank god X-Men belongs to a different studio
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
I feel that most with X-Men. The concept is such good world building, I like it in isolation. I don’t want Spider-Man to exist in that world. I want mutants, humans, overcoming bigotry... maybe aliens, but really don’t need them either.
-
Exactly. X-Men in world where there are only humans and mutants is brilliant. Otherwise makes no sense (why is there bigotry against mutant superheroes but not regular ones).
- Show replies
New conversation -
-
-
This Tweet is unavailable.
-
Really? I think I liked Frank Miller's Daredevil best -- because it was not cosmic but more focused and urban.
End of conversation
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.