I heard it mentioned in The Totally Rad Show, one of many Podcasts that I follow. It was described as one of the classic American graphic novels and I have been interested in the basics of the American graphic novel histories, so I decided to give it a try.

Well, the problems for me were two folds. One is that I am not that into the more realistic painting styles of American graphic novels (I have grown up on the Japanese styles of comics). The other was that I had no previous knowledge of most of the Marvel characters (maybe just Spiderman). So, the story initially was a bit confusing and I don’t think I got all the connections and nuances that the Marvel fans would have picked up.

I guess, I am more into the “consumption” nature of comics/animation (than the “art”-y stuff).