tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post1173976558973577862..comments2024-03-27T21:12:28.287-05:00Comments on Collected Editions: Review: Marvel Boy hardcover/trade paperback (Marvel Comics)collectededitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-46025724285140612422009-06-04T08:19:11.974-05:002009-06-04T08:19:11.974-05:00I didn't notice anything as egregious as Marve...I didn't notice anything as egregious as Marvel has perpetrated in the past with some of their omniboo. No major production issues that jumped out at me, I guess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-52632551722950729882009-06-02T23:10:51.504-05:002009-06-02T23:10:51.504-05:00One thing I'd like to know about this hardcove...One thing I'd like to know about this hardcover edition is if Marvel fixed the split double-page spreads that ruined the original Marvel Boy trade.shagamuhttp://mbbrofum.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-33076357731986009702009-06-01T17:02:35.194-05:002009-06-01T17:02:35.194-05:00Thanks for the comments, Dave. I was going for a c...Thanks for the comments, Dave. I was going for a cheap laugh there, you're right. I think youth and youthful rebellion are both important parts of the character and what the story is about. <br /><br />I read quite a bit about how MB was meant to be "an invocation/download of the aeon of Horus" but I didn't feel like it played a huge role in the storytelling and was ultimately less important the book's meta-commentary on Marvel Comics itself. I think 7SoV served much better as a "magical experimental superhero comic." (But then I barely understand Alan Moore's cosmology much less Morrison's.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-65432654679417448152009-06-01T16:47:13.392-05:002009-06-01T16:47:13.392-05:00That was a pleasant review but I take one exceptio...That was a pleasant review but I take one exception with something you wrote- “If not for thorny legal complications, I'm sure Morrison would have preferred to call this book Marvel Man.”<br /> <br />While the point is amusing, I disagree and humbly suggest it misses an important point behind the series. Morrison mentioned in interviews that Marvel Boy – the character and text – are meant to evoke Horus, the boy god. As evidence, Marvel Boy wears the emblem of Horus on his chest. The book is an invocation of Horus and presumably meant to stir the overthrow of old ideas so new cultural growth can be achieved. So it is important that Nohvarr be a boy as a “man” has become set in his ways and represents maturity. The “boy” represents revolution by the new so “Marvel Boy” it is then. In this respect, the book is much-more closely aligned with Morrison’s THE INVISIBLES series, which is a long magical discursion/invocation itself. Plus JG Jones inserts two INVISIBLES in the second issue of the book. <br /><br />I think you make a great point about the Ghost of Marvel [comics]. The reader only sees the remnants of the core Marvel Universe as you point out. The core heroes only appear in analogs - FF & Iron Man in Midas, Cap, Hulk and Wolverine in Bannermen, Dr. Strange via appearance of the Mindless Ones, etc. So if Marvel Boy is an evocation of renewal then his victory over these analogs is a desire for the reader (and future creators) to cast off the accumulated detritus of the Marvel U so new ideas can grow.Dlotemphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17240614334386349256noreply@blogger.com