This predominates in our culture has, over the centuries, adapted to various shapes and capacities with which man was able to classify, relate, tell, and study the "new", the "different" and what is not could "explain" by means of science.
Today, culture, scientific discovery, the realization that the evolution putting one day explode in front of new people, new things that as we eat, sleep and fly ...
FLYWHEEL ????!!!!! Wait, maybe here need a moment to explain!
Those of you who thought he was to read the next article on genetics that the monthly "Le Scienze " will publish in January, would be well advised to unplug the PC and go and drink a sip of water!
For those of you that instead, attracted by the exciting title of the article, want to continue, you should tell it like it is: here we talk about comics! In this case, House of Comics targati Marvel!
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Well, since apparently we were the only ones concerned, I think it's time to move on.
For the past 50 years (more or less), the House of Ideas (read: Marvel), he founded his fortune and his stories on an assumption: the existence of human beings with extraordinary powers, which address , against their will, to the extent possible situations (and often beyond the impossible), to the delight of the audience of readers who now in almost every part of the world is buying up the books of Spiderman, Fantastic 4, X-Men and company!
But things, as we said at the beginning, are constantly evolving. If once is enough to build the story based on the clash Good / Bad, telling a story boundary that was more exciting than convincing, now the public, hungry for content, story, with twists and maybe even end not "Happy" (indeed, sometimes the new players have with the final "Sad" it will be because we are convinced that we can only end badly? " course you do! " say the good old Murphy, author of the homonymous law!), claim that their heroes enter into the framework intricate, made up of mysteries and events that also reflect their humanity, in addition to their powers, and that will take them, perhaps, not so much to address the fears of the bad guy, but those of a love story ended, or the suspicion of being a monster, even if you are the side of good!
Having now embarked on a journey that continues in this direction by about 20 years, Marvel has clearly decided to create a series in itself, made of stories, rather than comics, novels seem to be drawn: works full of meaning, imbued, from the beginning until the conclusion of questions, mysteries, intrigues, adventures of men over the threshold of man, but as "normal" living ordinary lives, shuffled to the turmoil that the fate of their "special" forces them to face, day per day.
100% Marvel is a series of books in large format paperback, month after month, gathers in a single solution not only produced at the old sagas today at a public larger, but also stories, using the superheroes and the events fantasy or science fiction as an excuse, puts us in front of burning issues such as racism, war, hatred and love, sometimes taken to extreme limits as only events of this caliber can.
Of course, these kinds of stories were not born by chance at some point the writers of the X-Men and Spider-Man realized that the usual situations "kicking and punching " could not make it to happy kids (but also, and above all, adults) who wanted to find more references of everyday life in the stories of their heroes, or who wanted to finally discover what was going on behind the scenes of a "Secret War".
so many years, stories like "Watchmen," "Marvels," "Kingdom Come" and the story of God's dream "Sandman" by Neil Gaiman (and perhaps thanks to him we came up with these modern epics psychological and psychoanalytic) have helped push the story of the superhero to a rail less and less because of trivial disputes, and increasingly studded with phrases, thoughts, analysis, deep, love and everyday events of a generation of beings that live for years with us, albeit only in a world of paper.