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“I think it’s the most bombastic way to tell their stories,” Blum tells Newsarama.
The long form storytelling, the building.
I mean, we cite Chris Claremont all the time.
That guy wrote X-Men for 16 years.
you’re free to’t really do that with anything else."
“And I think they were born in this format, you know?”
“Like, this is where they come from.
So this is the best way to tell their stories.”
But their own love of Marvel goes all the way back to their childhoods.
“I just remember comics being around just kind of piled up for us kids.
The art looks cooler.
The characters are cooler,” says Oswalt.
“I remember a doc ox Spider Man issue that I thought was just brilliant.
Great villains, great heroes.
It was just this thing in the air that I was able to detect.”
“Like there’s pictures of me in my highchair with them.
I remember simultaneously buying, I think, a bunch of the Secret Wars toys while reading Secret Wars.
And it was like love at first sight for me.”
What makes a truly unforgettable Marvel Comics story?
As it turns out, it’s remarkably hard to pin down just ten examples that sum it up.
“Putting the list together was actually kind of easy.
That’s what helped us choose.”
you’ve got the option to connect to these things on a deeply personal level.'
I think these stories can really go much deeper and explore interesting things.
And we tried to have self contained stories, or at least moments that worked on their own."
“I love how vibrant, messy and overcrowded it is.
I love that any character can take the spotlight,” says Oswalt.
“It is the closest thing to like, the messiness of life.
It just happens to have superpowers and cosmic entities in it, but it is.
“I think it’s character first, right?”
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