Marvel 1602 by Neil GaimanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Bloody brilliant.
Placing Marvel characters such as Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and Daredevil at the time of Elizabeth I demonstrates how universal and enduring comic themes are.
The graphic novel could be purchased by schools for pleasure reading, but also to look at character archetypes, dramatic narrative, historical research, and how to visualize a story.
"So what are these fundamental principles...?"
"Stories. And they give me hope.
"We are a boatful of monsters and miracles, hoping that, somehow, we can survive a world in which all hands are against us. A world which, by all evidence, will end extremely soon.
"Yet I posit we are in a universe which favours stories.
"A universe in which no story can ever truly end; in which there can be only continuances."
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