Tuesday, November 24, 2009

True Stories of the 'Core Marvel Universe'

Here is an interesting article pointing out that fiction is just fiction and in order to enjoy it you need a suspension of belief. It was written in response to an admittedly out there Punisher story to show that many "normal" continuity Marvel stories are really a stretch to accept...again the term fiction!






In the Core Marvel Universe, the most popular person is a 120 year-old Canadian berserker samurai who has who has been to the moon and was in love with a psychic who destroyed an alien planet and came back from the dead, married to both Japanese royalty and a green-haired terrorist, and had a child with a woman from a hidden region of Antarctica where dinosaurs and cavemen live. When he is not fighting his enemies -- most of whom are versions of himself, some of whom have claws made of lasers -- he reaffirms his status as as tough-as-nails loner as a member of at least three superhero teams.

True Stories of the 'Core Marvel Universe'
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