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madelinerossell's review
4.0
This is an anthology that would have been 5 stars if the Atlas arc was left out.
shane_tiernan's review
4.0
I liked the main story for this a LOT. It reminded me of [b:Marvels|16982|Marvels|Kurt Busiek|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388285617s/16982.jpg|265304] or probably more like [b:Astro City, Vol. 1: Life in the Big City|72111|Astro City, Vol. 1 Life in the Big City|Kurt Busiek|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348360073s/72111.jpg|97133] because I had never heard of the main character - Speedball. If you haven't read those two I just mentioned get to it, they're both great books. The idea is to show heroes as normal people. To focus on how much the same they are to your average Joe rather than how different they are. So there were a lot of touching, kind of 9/11 moments as the world seems to be ending and the story zooms in on small town America.
"The Agent of Atlas" thing was okay but I wasn't blown away, definitely some odd b-list heroes there.
I didn't really get "The Chosen". The characters were archetypes of Thor, Spider-man etc... Are they really heroes in the Marvel universe or was that just a kind of experiment. Seems like a cheap device to use familiar heroes without actually having them be the exact same hero. The same kind of thing as "young avengers" or whatever they have.
Some of the shorts were fun, I enjoyed the funny one with Asbestos Man and the one with Dr. Fear complaining because everyone was so scared already he was kind of useless.
"The Agent of Atlas" thing was okay but I wasn't blown away, definitely some odd b-list heroes there.
I didn't really get "The Chosen". The characters were archetypes of Thor, Spider-man etc... Are they really heroes in the Marvel universe or was that just a kind of experiment. Seems like a cheap device to use familiar heroes without actually having them be the exact same hero. The same kind of thing as "young avengers" or whatever they have.
Some of the shorts were fun, I enjoyed the funny one with Asbestos Man and the one with Dr. Fear complaining because everyone was so scared already he was kind of useless.
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