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A review by bstratton
Marvel Chronicle by Matthew K. Manning, Tom DeFalco, Peter Sanderson, Tom Brevoort
5.0
A great, exhaustive resource for Marvel Comics history through mid-2008. It hews a little too closely to the company line, especially as you get closer to the present, but it’s a great place to start for anyone who wants to take a deep dive into the company and its history. I host a Marvel Comics history podcast, and I still learned plenty of stuff that was new to me.
My biggest complaint though is that they decided for some reason to re-letter EVERY SINGLE WORD BALLOON with the most generic computer “comic book” font, and it just looks jarring and cheap. I wish they’d gotten an actual comics letterer to do the job right.
My biggest complaint though is that they decided for some reason to re-letter EVERY SINGLE WORD BALLOON with the most generic computer “comic book” font, and it just looks jarring and cheap. I wish they’d gotten an actual comics letterer to do the job right.