He Read All 27,000 Marvel Comic Books and Lived to Tell the Tale 0

[Ken Aldred]

On 10/12/2021 at 5:38 PM, lizards2 said:

If his includes Sgt Fury, I call BS as well. Ain't nobody can survive that. 

I’d say that binge reading 50 to 100 really bad, drek 90s Marvels in one go would be far worse.  Many long, single title runs to choose from as torture.

Edited October 12, 2021 by Ken Aldred

[s-man]

Just wondering why he would be expected to die after reading 27,000 comics?

[Point Five]

Nitpicks aside, it's a great article and has me interested in the book.

"In his final chapter, Wolk describes how reading Marvel comics with his son helped to deepen their love. It’s a beautiful closing, intensely moving, utterly human, a perfect counterpoint to all the wild weird that came before. That Wolk finishes his journey on this note of communion is fitting. For all their imperfections, Marvel comics have given countless readers inspiration, recognition and, in the face of larger societal rejection, a home. Even communities who have historically ended up on the short end of the Marvel stick have found deep joy in their pages — reparative joy that like Black Panther’s vibranium suit absorbs narrative blows and transforms them into something sustaining and occasionally liberating. “All of the Marvels” is magnificently marvelous. Wolk’s work will invite many more alliterative superlatives. It deserves them all."
 

[habsfan1]

On 10/12/2021 at 1:13 PM, Ken Aldred said:

drek 90s Marvels in one go would be far worse

This is so correct.  Recently pulled some of the late 90s What Ifs to read as a curiosity.....it can't be done.  He lied.

[thehumantorch]

"So Wolk read them. All 27,000 Marvel comics, give or take a few."

Give or take a few  .  Give or take XForce?

[kav]

I've read all of them except one.

[Coverless 9.8]

He said the decompression of the last twenty years allowed him to go through years in hours!  

Edited October 13, 2021 by Coverless 9.8

[bronze_rules]

When I was younger, I picked up a 100 drek comics with my paper route bag and bike in the rain at the lcs a few miles away. I devoured all of them in a night or two. I could pull something like this off back then fairly easily I think.

Comics take nowhere near the attention span of say a novel, like umberto eco, Neal Stephenson, or even Stephen King.

Edited October 13, 2021 by bronze_rules

[Ken Aldred]

On 10/12/2021 at 11:23 PM, thehumantorch said:

"So Wolk read them. All 27,000 Marvel comics, give or take a few.

Aha! So, he’s not read all of them, then, making the article completely redundant. 

You need to reach that rarified summit, not stop down below in the foothills.

To begin with, it did sound like a completist achievement similar to Ian Levine’s, but actually it isn’t close.

Edited October 13, 2021 by Ken Aldred

[Ken Aldred]

On 10/12/2021 at 11:27 PM, kav said:

I've read all of them except one.

I call BS. You’re a DC specialist.  
 

Curt Swan didn’t work for Marvel.

Edited October 13, 2021 by Ken Aldred

[kav]

On 10/12/2021 at 10:16 PM, Ken Aldred said:

I call BS. You’re a DC specialist.  
 

Curt Swan didn’t work for Marvel.

right DC I meant.  

[greggy]

On 10/12/2021 at 10:16 PM, Ken Aldred said:

I call BS. You’re a DC specialist.  
 

Curt Swan didn’t work for Marvel.

That's what she said. 

[kav]

On 10/12/2021 at 10:20 PM, greggy said:

That's what she said. 

you tell 'im garggy

[Ken Aldred]

On 10/13/2021 at 6:22 AM, kav said:

garggy

Sounds like you’ve been reading some old Marvel Monster comics, though.

 

[kav]

On 10/12/2021 at 10:38 PM, Ken Aldred said:

Sounds like you’ve been reading some old Marvel Monster comics, though.

 

GARGGY-The thing who WALKS!!!

(omg he walks and stuff!)

[kav]

You mess with Garggy and you wake up with a horse head in your bed.

[catman76]

Just what i expected, the entire article just talks about superheros. So he read every western, romance, funny animal and every other non superhero marvel comic? He read the entire run of Heathcliff and Care Bears? I am calling BS.

Edited October 13, 2021 by catman76

[Ken Aldred]

On 10/13/2021 at 6:44 AM, kav said:

You mess with Garggy and you wake up with a horse head in your bed.

That’s more EC than Marvel monster, Kav.

Definitely pre-Code.

Edited October 13, 2021 by Ken Aldred

[Motor City Rob]

That is a painful article to read. I stopped after two paragraphs. Who talks like that?!?!

[speedcake]

Article sucked, guy only read a handful of issues here and there, author of article complains author of book didn’t inject more topical race baiting.

saved you a click