MARVEL 1602 [NEW PRINTING] (Paperback)

from atreic

Graphic novel where, as the name suggests, the Marvel characters appear in 1602, and have to work out why (to prevent the destruction of the Entire Universe). Clever and well constructed, I think I'd have enjoyed it more if I was more familiar with the Marvel-verse, (it took me embarrassingly lon...

from JapaG

Gaiman re-envisions the history of the Marvel superheroes in the Elizabethan age of the beginning of the 17th century. Many fan-favourites make an appearance, with the major groups at the fore. Gaiman's story is not quite up to his usual par, but the art by Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove is amaz...

from MeganAngela

As an avid comic book and Marvel fan, I picked up Marvel 1602 because I had heard nothing but glowing reviews about it. Unfortunately, I was a bit disappointed. The series is solid, I will give it that. However, I felt that the pacing was very slow and didn't truly pick up until the last issue or...

from bensdad00

An interesting re-imagining of the traditional Marvel Characters. It is a bit hard to read for the casual fan unfamiliar with the characters secret identities and several of the characters - while artistically well rendered - were either so sparingly used as to be unmemorable or too nearly identi...

from GingerbreadMan

I've been leaning heavily towards DC for my super hero fare (as an adult, at least), and so it was really a coincidence when the word GAIMAN on a spine in the Marvel section of Stockholm's excellent Comics library caught my eye. I had no idea this graphic novel existed, but the concept seemed too...