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Dec 14, 2008
Origins done right
When I was 12, comic books cost 10 cents. This sum could also buy a candy bar, or a soda, or a rubber ball. I could spend a few hours reading that 10 cent literature. You could buy a house for $20,000 and a car for $2000. Now, I'm much older: comic books cost about $4.00, and the BIG comic books, i.e. graphic novels, cost about $12 new. I can get through the $4 ones in about 10 minutes, so I need the longer form. What I don't need is a $12 price tag. So thanks to e-bay, I can get a graphic novel for a lot, lot less. This one is the first of Marvel's Ultimates Fantastic Four series. The Ultimates series are rebootings of the classic Marvel stories, with glossy paper, good artwork, and minor changes in the storyline. As one can expect, the origin stories are in the first book, and the origin stories have been updated and made more grown up. This time, we are given an origin story beginning when Reed Richards is a nerd kid with an older friend/protector, Ben Grimm. Of course, Reed is a genius, and he is introduced to the Baxter Building at a very early age. The Baxter Building is a kind of school for gifted kids and adults where Reed meets up with Sue Storm, her brother, and Victor Von Doom. These parts of the story were never told in the original comics in the early 1960's, so their inclusion here goes a long way to deepening and strengthening the plot. The accident which makes the characters into the FF and Dr. Doom is changed: no longer is it an outer space jaunt but a multimillion dollar time/space/matter transport experiment. The characters' ambivalent reactions to their astounding physical changes are also explored to good effect. The FF's abilities are the classic ones, still inexplicable by any known scientific principles. There is no attempt to make such explanations, this being, after all, still a comic book. As a comic book, though, it is very entertaining, more mature, well done, and worth a second or even a third read-through.
Apr 05, 2011
good quality, good price
No problems whatsoever with the transaction. For recordings that were done about 50 years ago, these pieces have a timeless quality and remain a whole lot more interesting that the usual pop stuff you hear today. Here is a sample lyric of today: Baby, Baby, Baby, whoa now baby, c'mon now baby, whoa, whoa, whoa yeah baby, baby, baby. Here is a sample lyric from these Kingston Trio albums: Nine men to guard the British rank and five to watch the town about, and two to stand at either hand and one to let Bill Tenner out. Your choice.
Jul 31, 2022
Good bridge.
Three wide feet make it more stable.