ASTONISHING SPIDER-MAN #46
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52 action-packed pages of arachnid adventure! Free awesome giant-size Spidey poster! Peter Parker and Boomerang side-by-side against a bar full of super-villains!
Plus, there’s a crime spree and the Thieves Guild are stealing all the Superheroes’ stuff... including Web-shooters! By Nicks Spencer & Humberto Ramos!
Reprinting material from Amazing Spider-Man #7 & 8.
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MARVEL LEGENDS #21
52 action-packed pages in the Mighty Marvel Manner! Call her Agent Roz Solomon, Agent of Wakanda, troll slayer, (ex-girlfriend of Thor – but we don't talk about that) and about to become frost giant food! By Jason Aaron & Mike Del Mundo!
Plus: The next chapter begins! Captain America is wanted for murder! And you won't believe who the victim is! By Ta-Nehisi Coates & Leinil Yu!
Reprinting material from Thor #9 & Captain America #7.
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Kid, did you know that Marvel are publishing a comic in April called How To Read Comics?
ReplyDeleteApparently many people need help to understand how to follow the panels and speech balloons and this is Marvel's way of helping (and getting new readers, of course).
Fair play to them for thinking of those who need some guidance, but it astounds me that this is such a big issue (pardon the pun) that it needs instructional literature.
Just shows how much things have changed- when I was growing up in the late 70s/80s, everyone read comics at some level, even if it was the Broons, or Peanuts newspaper strips. I can't remember a time when I was ever unaware of comic strips.
This isn't meant as a criticism of modern youngsters, just that it feels sad that reading comics has become a skill that people are forgetting, like comic readers are becoming like dry-stone wall builders or carters, occupations that are dying out with little need or desire for their abilities to be passed on to the next generation.
Maybe I'm being over-dramatic but that's the way I feel!
Nope, didn't know that, DS, but perhaps that's more a reflection on how they're written nowadays than the way they used to be. Having said that, there must've been a time as a young reader when I didn't automatically know that broken lines around a speech balloon indicated a whisper, and balloons shaped like clouds indicated someone's thoughts. It seems now that I've always known, but I'm probably just fooling myself. I remember someone once writing into a comic to ask whether the speech balloons above people's heads were visible to other people in the same panel, and Stan Lee, in response to enquiries, had to explain (in a feature page) that Peter Parker's half-Peter, half-Spidey face was symbolic and not to be taken literally. No wonder some people regarded comics as being for the intellectually-challenged, eh?
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