All Of The Marvels A Journey To The Ends Of The Biggest Story Ever Told

So of course that s what Wolk did he read all 27000 comics that make up the Marvel Universe thus far from Alpha Flight to Omega the Unknown And then he made sense of itseeing into the everexpanding story in its parts and as a whole and seeing through it as a prism through which to view the landscape of American culture In Wolk s hands the mammoth Marvel narrative becomes a funhousemirror history of the past sixty years from the atomic night terrors of the Cold War to the technocracy and political division of the present daya boisterous tragicomic magnificently filigreed epic about power and ethics set in a world transformed by wonders As a work of cultural exegesis this is sneakily significant even a landmark it s also ludicrously fun Wolk sees fascinating patternsthe rise and fall of particular cultural aspirations and of the storytelling modes that conveyed them