Not what it should have been
Review for John Romita Jr. 30th Anniversary Special nn-A

Comic Book by Marvel, Jan 01 2007
     
 
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Not what it should have been

This was a disappointing waste of money. $4 for 64 pages sounded cool. The description sounded decent, "This keepsake edition features a brand new story written by Neil Gaiman, an all-new interview with the acclaimed artist, a gallery of his most memorable covers and pinups, rare sketches, a comprehensive chronology, testimonials and congratulations from fellow writers and artists, and more!" So I bit.

Let's break this down. The Neil Gaiman story was a cute little eight pager. The interview, testimonials and congrats were 16 pages of Marvel Spotlight. I don't read that because the Spotlight writers have regularly disappointed. The gallery of covers, pin-ups and sketches was 20 or more pages of all sketches. Sure, some were sketches of covers but just sketches. And most were from the last couple years. The chronology was two pages and not well formated. There was also an intro by John Romita Sr that was taken out of the Visionaries hardcover and 1) mentioned stories "included in this addition" that weren't in this book, but the hard cover and 2) had a HUGE typo (part of entire sentence was jumbled and chopped). The best part of this was the Amazing Spider-Man #11 back-up story reprint, JRjr's first full work. But it wasn't worth $4.

If I ever think anything is being produced by the guys from Marvel Spotlight ever again, I'm staying far, far, far away from it.
     

SwiftMann
June 25, 2008

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