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vel629vet's review against another edition
2.25
This was surprisingly bad. Stan Lee’s entire life told in tiny, single page glimpses pulled from videos, interviews, and other biographies. All of the highs and lows of his career condensed into a few sentences of dialogue. The art was uninspired and the whole book felt flippant and poorly executed. I would hate to have all of my worst moments presented in this format, and it does absolutely no work to try to give context to many of the major moments in Stan Lee’s personal and work life.
Very disappointing and I do not recommend.
Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.
Very disappointing and I do not recommend.
Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.
Content Warnings
Minor: Child death
redhairedashreads's review against another edition
2.0
2 stars - It was ok
As someone who is a fan of Marvel Comics but does not know a lot about Stan Lee’s personal life or career, I was hoping to enjoy this graphic and learn a lot about this famous man. While there is a lot of information about Lee’s life, the way it was presented wasn’t very enjoyable. This presented a lot of information and dialogue from Stan’s life all in text bubbles with minimal art surrounding it. There was so much dialogue at times that it was muddled and makes me question why a graphic novel format was chosen for this biography. Another complaint about the artwork was that a lot of the characters looked very similar making it very hard to differentiate who they were supposed to be.
This is a long look at Lee’s life and there was no distinction between sections or time skips. It was constant time jumps with no indication of how old he was during the text/graphics. You are basically just guessing Stan’s age by context clues and things like his appearance in certain movies.
While this does give you a general outline of his life, it’s not a very fun or enjoyable read. Scioli’s artwork is just ok and made it hard to figure out who is in the panels, the dialogue was dense and boring at times, the timeline hard to follow, and Stan’s main comic writing days got old quickly.
*ARC provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.*
twivea's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
2.5
thank you to netgalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review.
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