AV Club on Ten Great FF Moments



This is a pretty standard fan article in a way, but I enjoyed it.

One strange bit of fall-out with the superhero companies rushing towards the millions of dollars available from film adaptations is that it's changed the nature of discussion on what makes the comics so great. The value placed on the original works now tends to focus on their conceptual strengths rather than their execution. I'm one who thinks the bulk of what made the early Marvel comics so awesome is that they were really fun, well-drawn, funny comic books, not that they were walking storytelling hooks. Articles like the AV Club's seem to be much more in line with what I enjoyed as a kid more than a few dry paragraphs on heroes with a feet of clay or heroes with a sense of family would be. I'm not against analysis, of course, I just feel that in subconsciously reducing superhero characters to pitches, the quality of the work itself gets short shrift.
 
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