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ipacho's review
4.0
4,5/5. Although Busiek’s writing is good, the drawing outshone everything. It’s nice to see the POV of the common guy, the bystanders of the superhero comics, and look at them as it could have been. A must.
whitejamaica's review
3.0
Alex Ross should produce the art for all comics. Perhaps the one redeemable quality of this collection.
xterminal's review
4.0
Kurt Busiek, Marvels (Marvel, 2003)
So while all those big superhero battles were going on, what was the rest of the population thinking? Kurt Busiek gives us one answer to that question in Marvels, a story that touches on a large number of the stories battles in the Marvel universe, giving them to us from the perspective of a newspaper photographer-- not a superhero himself, just one of the guys on the street. We get to see the ambivalence of the common folks towards superheroes, which is pretty unusual for the genre (at least in the pre-[b:Watchmen|472331|Watchmen|Alan Moore|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175041710s/472331.jpg|4358649] days); that is, of course, the point. If you ever wondered what happened to all the people inside when a big superhero battle took out an office building, this is definitely one to check out. ****
So while all those big superhero battles were going on, what was the rest of the population thinking? Kurt Busiek gives us one answer to that question in Marvels, a story that touches on a large number of the stories battles in the Marvel universe, giving them to us from the perspective of a newspaper photographer-- not a superhero himself, just one of the guys on the street. We get to see the ambivalence of the common folks towards superheroes, which is pretty unusual for the genre (at least in the pre-[b:Watchmen|472331|Watchmen|Alan Moore|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175041710s/472331.jpg|4358649] days); that is, of course, the point. If you ever wondered what happened to all the people inside when a big superhero battle took out an office building, this is definitely one to check out. ****
ricardoreading's review
5.0
Stan Lee died a month ago and I could not think of a better way to honor his legacy than reading one of the greatest works of comics by two of its greatest creators about the universe that he helped create.
I read this years ago. It still holds up. I actually think it reads better now given Marvel's achievement with their cinematic universe. They had the groundwork for it laid out long ago by Busiek and Ross. A stunning and singular work.
I read this years ago. It still holds up. I actually think it reads better now given Marvel's achievement with their cinematic universe. They had the groundwork for it laid out long ago by Busiek and Ross. A stunning and singular work.
sha66areads's review
4.0
Very different perspective we rarely get to see. This would also be a great limited series!
wentworthian's review
5.0
Fascinating. One of the graphic novels that first turned me onto comics as something more than guys in capes with their underwear over their pants. Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross could write and paint my life, as far as I'm concerned. It would be so much more interesting that way.
fiatal's review
4.0
It is so great to see the place where Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross' collaboration started - where their ideas about what is interesting about superheroes and what is missing from most superhero comics (what is it like to be a regular human in a world with superheroes) start to be developed.
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