>>149241032
Lmao, really sounds like a fun read. Reminds me of my experience with pic rel
Picked it up on a whim expecting it to be a nerdy narrative timeline of the entire Marvel Universe, or an actual examination of the trends, or something. Instead, it's this lame beginner's guide. He claims to have read "every Marvel comic ever published", which I doubt, because the book really only looks at a handful of the most obvious runs and titles and hardly does anything to make links between them. That's it. There's a summary of what happens, the writers/artists who worked on it, then some brief little criticism. There's about 5 or 8 chapters and the only left-field pick is Shang-Chi and, of course, he spends most of that chapter talking about racism and the Fu Manchu problem, because this is a book from 2021. He also talks a lot about how stunning and important Kamala Khan is, rather than whether her first run was actually anything interesting.
Anons moan about Howe's book on here, but at least it's actually an informative and researched history. This one was just some gimmicky stunt and I fell for it.