History of the Marvel Universe #3

Overall, I’m absolutely loving this series. The art by Javier Rodríguez and Álvaro Lópex is stellar; they’re great at presenting the dense amount of information, and their style is perfect for showing the classic costumes in a modern art style. I can’t wait to see how Mark Waid tells some of the more recent stories in this series. Read Full Review

Overall, I’m absolutely loving this series. The art by Javier Rodríguez and Álvaro Lópex is stellar; they’re great at presenting the dense amount of information, and their style is perfect for showing the classic costumes in a modern art style. I can’t wait to see how Mark Waid tells some of the more recent stories in this series. Read Full Review

Waid, Rodrguez, and Lpez blend this orderly account together making readers feel like they are the Theophilus of the Marvel Universe. For fans jumping into this series expecting a story packed with revelations, the only revelation they will find here is a detailed and historical document that has been fine-tuned, researched, and organized to get new and old readers up to speed for whats to come. With help from Rodrguez and Lpez, this creative team deliberately traps readers within this historical document and makes it an enjoyably fun read while gently informing comic buffs of Marvels glorious past. Pick this issue up, as well as the prior two, and add it to your pull list. Fans will leave the other side smarter and better for it. Read Full Review

More bullet points review than anything else,History of the Marvel Universe #3 compresses far, far too much history into one issue, leaving crucial stories on the cutting room floor in favor of cramming as many highlights as possible into the shortest amount of space. It's more of a checklist of Marvel's greatest hits than a legitimate history. Read Full Review

There is no clear narrative connection laid between these events and thus the final marker of "TO BE CONTINUED" on the final page can only be met with a shrug. Read Full Review

This issue feels necessary to the continuity of the series, but there isnt enough here to make it feel like much more than an exercise linking the second issue to the fourth. Read Full Review

Ryan

Dec 21, 2019

20000+ comics crammed into 6 issues? Yes please

Kalaoui

Sep 24, 2019

This is finally at where my early memories of comic book reading days. It was a pleasure to read with some seriously outstanding art from Javier Rodriguez A+. I know it might be a summary of what everyone already knows but to me this is nostalgia done well and I enjoy it immensely! I'm not looking for a story or a payoff.

Psycamorean

Sep 22, 2019

I really enjoyed this trip down memory lane. We're finally at the point where most of the modern heroes have been introduced, so a lot of this stuff I know very well. Instead of this series informing me, filling in the gaps of things I knew bits and pieces of, it's become a nostalgia-fest. And nostalgia is a really great drug.

Azrael

Sep 27, 2019

Some of these events (e.g. Namor) deserved more than a short paragraph but this is a great refresher of the key events of Marvel history people are most familiar with.

CrazyforRAMU

Apr 04, 2020

I view its greatest value as giving Javier Rodríguez an excuse to create awesome retro spreads and honestly, there are worse reasons to put together a comic. I'd prefer some "behind the scenes" insights from the artist as the backmatter rather than "Mark Waid's Marvel Unlimited study guide," though. It looks super-pretty, but it's in no danger of dethroning Marvels or Grand Design when it comes to retrospective storytelling.

DDJamesB

Oct 01, 2019

There's really not much to this book other than facts. At this point this seriea is just great art with facts and im ok with that.