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I actually got this book for my dad for Christmas, and when he was done, I decided to read it. I'm not a big reader of comic books, but am a huge fan of superhero mythologies and the art form itself. And, I'm pretty into the whole DC versus Marvel debate. For the record, I'm a DC girl, although I enjoy and appreciate both publishers.
I started reading this book a while ago but had to take a break in the middle because I found the writing style so boring. Not the topic; the topic and the information is really interesting and I learned a lot. But the writing is just one long newspaper article with expletives thrown in. Tucker's writing just dragged down the material. Towards the end of the book — the last two or three chapters — it picked up, but I wish it had kept that pace throughout.
Also, and I admit this is nit-picking, I don't think Tucker understands commas. I get it; comma splices were the bane of my college essays. It just seemed like in a lot of places there SHOULD have been a comma and wasn't, or there was a comma (or multiple) and shouldn't have been. From someone who is as experienced a writer as Tucker seems to be, I don't expect those kinds of errors, and errors in general in professionally published books turn me off anyway.
This was an especially interesting read since I read it in the wake of Stan Lee's passing. The book, of course, was written before he died, but he was such a grand figure in the comics world, especially since Marvel started doing a booming cinematic business and I learned a lot about what he thought about comics in general and how he helped shape the Marvel brand.
Tucker claims to have no bias as to DC versus Marvel, but reading between the lines, I distinctly felt he was giving an edge to Marvel. I'm not arguing with the facts. Marvel has consistently out-business-ed DC for decades. I still felt a subtle but definitive "Marvel is better" vibe. Perhaps if roles were reversed and I was more solidly in the Marvel camp, I might have thought he preferred DC.
I started reading this book a while ago but had to take a break in the middle because I found the writing style so boring. Not the topic; the topic and the information is really interesting and I learned a lot. But the writing is just one long newspaper article with expletives thrown in. Tucker's writing just dragged down the material. Towards the end of the book — the last two or three chapters — it picked up, but I wish it had kept that pace throughout.
Also, and I admit this is nit-picking, I don't think Tucker understands commas. I get it; comma splices were the bane of my college essays. It just seemed like in a lot of places there SHOULD have been a comma and wasn't, or there was a comma (or multiple) and shouldn't have been. From someone who is as experienced a writer as Tucker seems to be, I don't expect those kinds of errors, and errors in general in professionally published books turn me off anyway.
This was an especially interesting read since I read it in the wake of Stan Lee's passing. The book, of course, was written before he died, but he was such a grand figure in the comics world, especially since Marvel started doing a booming cinematic business and I learned a lot about what he thought about comics in general and how he helped shape the Marvel brand.
Tucker claims to have no bias as to DC versus Marvel, but reading between the lines, I distinctly felt he was giving an edge to Marvel. I'm not arguing with the facts. Marvel has consistently out-business-ed DC for decades. I still felt a subtle but definitive "Marvel is better" vibe. Perhaps if roles were reversed and I was more solidly in the Marvel camp, I might have thought he preferred DC.