Comic Book Melancholia – Los Angeles Review of Books
“For those who read these stories as they were published, the movies attract us with the promise to restore the feeling of an older promise: a story that is vast yet finite. A story read in fragments, out of order, but with the conviction that if all the pieces could be recovered, they would fit together in a single clear picture, a cause revealed for every effect. […]
“The cinematic challenge of Jean Grey’s death speaks to a larger paradox of superhero movies: they emerge from a loosened continuity system that allows endless narrative do overs, even as they try to recapture the force of story events from a time when second chances were not allowed.”
Jason Middleton looks at the most tragic death in Marvel Comics.
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