Image from Neil Gaiman 's website
From Book 7 you know I enjoy reading comic books, and given my newly discovered love of Neil Gaiman I was happy the two could collide.
Although I've never read the books of many of these characters, I understood who they were from the movies, and even if I hadn't seen those, doesn't everyone have a grasp on who Spiderman, The Fantastic Four, Daredevil and The X-Men are? They're pretty much public knowledge these days. Add to the fact that this is pretty much a stand alone story means that anyone can read this without having to worry about previous histories.
It's story is wonderful, I love it, why can't this be a movie? I'm not getting into a film rights conversation, but it usually bubbles up, and no, I don't care that the guy they've cast as Human Torch is black, it makes no impact on the story and we'll all be seeing the movie anyway.
Back to my point, it would make an awesome movie, I mean, just imagine the costumes! Great characters, the story is wonderful, I enjoy the time setting. I guess it'd be a sci-fi historical romp of a movie. Seriously, make this. It's so interesting.
Gaiman's writing really shines, I could gush for hours about how much I love his writing style, and it translates well to the comic format, which doesn't always happen for other authors.
I really enjoyed the artwork too, vibrant and each character is easy to identify and distinct throughout.
This has to be read.
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