Opinion: Marvel Cosmic Invasion Caps Off A Great Year To Be A Superhero Fan


Flying high.

Cards on the table: I am a big superhero fan and I always have been. I've read the comics, I've played the games, I've watched the movies, I've got the tattoos *gulp*. I am usually pretty adept at bending things to see the positives — heck, I can even defend Thor: The Dark World on a good day — but the last few years have been real dark for us fans of caped crusaders.

There have been some high points: Marvel TV (on the whole) has been rather solid, I've played more Marvel Snap than I care to admit, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was far better than some folk give it credit for, Batman: Arkham Shadow got its TGA flowers, and show me one animated film in the last five years that doesn't have some Spider-Verse DNA in it. But, generally, it has been a very long time since I've been able to say "I love superheroes" without needing to have a clarifying statement in the back pocket for the inevitable, and often completely valid, comeback.

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