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A Year Of Marvels
A Year Of Marvels
Collects A Year of The Amazing, The Incredible, The Unstoppable, The Unbeatable, The Uncanny; Ghost Rider X-Mas Special Infinite Comic #1; Marvel New Year's Eve Special #1.Join us in a brand new Marvel adventure as your favorite heroes journey through the calendar year one month at a time! It's February and Peter Parker's got a hot date, but the old Parker luck hits hard...and so does the bank-robbing villain The Vulture! Then, when business is down in March, Scott Lang's Ant-Man Security Solutions will take just about any job off ered to them - including stealing back stolen goods! Then see what happens when Hydra agents ruin the Winter Soldier's Fourth of July by robbing his secret storage locker. Plus, a special Father's Day tale featuring Nova!
208 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 19, 2017
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Ryan North
537 books1,602 followersHi, I'm Ryan! I was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1980 and since then have written several books. You can read my Wikipedia page for more, or check out my author site at RyanNorth.ca!
I'm the author of the webcomic Dinosaur Comics (that's the comic where the pictures don't change but the words do, it's better than it sounds and I've also done crazy things like turn Shakespeare into a choose-your-own-path adventure, write a comic for Marvel about a girl with all the powers of a squirrel, or mess up walking my dog so badly it made the news.
I'm working on more stuff as we speak, hopefully it's good
I'm the author of the webcomic Dinosaur Comics (that's the comic where the pictures don't change but the words do, it's better than it sounds and I've also done crazy things like turn Shakespeare into a choose-your-own-path adventure, write a comic for Marvel about a girl with all the powers of a squirrel, or mess up walking my dog so badly it made the news.
I'm working on more stuff as we speak, hopefully it's good
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February 20, 2017
Apparently there're only six issues to this series, despite the title. You'd think, being called A YEAR of Marvels, there'd be twelve issues but, Hell, what do I know? Blame it on 'Marvel Time'.
These six one-shots are of varying quality, each with a different creative team and each focusing on a different set of characters, but it averages out a bit 'meh'. Reasonably entertaining in places but nothing that's going to blow anybody's socks off. I still don't really understand what Marvel's trying to accomplish with these 'Infinite' digital comics.
These six one-shots are of varying quality, each with a different creative team and each focusing on a different set of characters, but it averages out a bit 'meh'. Reasonably entertaining in places but nothing that's going to blow anybody's socks off. I still don't really understand what Marvel's trying to accomplish with these 'Infinite' digital comics.
October 8, 2017
A wildly mixed bag. It seems like for every good story, there's a crummy one. The Spider-Man, Punisher, and Hawkeye (version Kate) stories are just regular adventures for those characters, decent but nothing really interesting. Nova's Father's Day story is actually kind of great, but the Wolverine/She-Hulk Mother's Day story is practically an object lesson in missed opportunities. The Winter Soldier Independence Day story is a bit more subtle about incorporating the holiday, but it really does work. Probably the worst story overall is the one written by Charlamagne, because it's literally a self-insert that lets Charlamagne paint himself as the the most awesome guy in the Marvel U. I'm sure he loves reading it, but if I wanted to read self-insert Marty Stu fics I'd just spend all my time on FF.net. The rest of the stories are ok.
February 9, 2019
This is a nice little assortment of stories starring a wide range of Marvel characters. The framing device of going through the calendar year works. The only problem is the Hawkeye story by Jeremy Whitley. NEVER LET THIS MAN WRITE DIALOGUE FOR FEMALE CHARACTERS AGAIN. I swear, nearly every line any woman says in this story is a cliché. He stopped juuust short of "I broke a nail" and jumping on a chair in the kitchen when they see a mouse.
Four stars for most of the book, but that story alone drops the rating to three.
Four stars for most of the book, but that story alone drops the rating to three.
January 6, 2023
In 2016, Marvel Comics released 5 one-shots devoted to the holidays as seen through the eyes of Marvel Universe. The holidays were occasions like Valentines Day, April Fools and Father's Day. Holidays that don't get the specials treatment. There was even a story about a holiday from Japan that I had never even heard of.
When these holiday single issues were released, I thought it was a great idea. But when Marvel didn't release a 6th one-shot devoted to celebrations in the months of November and December, I was sorely disappointed. Marvel had missed out on executing a brilliant year-long plan. And thus, I kinda lost interest in collecting the whole run.
My interest was revived a few months ago when I found a copy of A Year of Marvels at a used book story for only $1! This book collected the floppies devoted to January-October. Along with those 5 one-shots, there were 3 never before published holiday specials. From Marvel Unlimited's Infinite line, I got to break bread with the Punisher in a Veteran's Day/Thanksgiving epic. Robbie Reyes returned to the City of Angels and helped me to believe in Santa. And I rang in the new year with radio host, Charlamange Tha God over at Avengers Tower.
That those last 3 stories appear in this book is proof that Marvel can indeed take all of their digital holiday specials and sell them in print form! DC does this kind of thing all the time. Why won't Marvel? There's like 30 Thanksgiving and Christmas Infinite specials that I haven't read and I gladly pay some good money for a holiday omnibus. I really think Marvel owes its fans this since in the past 5 years, the only Christmas related special released by the House of Ideas was a Star Wars Life Day one-shot. Don't get me wrong- I appreciated that amazing issue. But Marvel has been a Scrooge for a very, very long time towards it's fans of floppies.
The stories and artwork of the 5 main volumes were good. But with such a spread of artists and writers, the level of quality was varied. The Punisher story was poignant and amazing. I loved the Ghost Rider Christmas story. Though I hated how a poor little defenseless kitty who is being abused by a brat. I love that Robbie Reyes frees the kitten and threatens the bully. But if you look closely in that story, this monster has abused other animals before. And that just bothered me. That story was written by Method Man of the Wu-Tang Clan and he could write for Marvel any day in my opinion.
As for the NYE story by Charlamange Tha God, it was horrible. I think this is where fans can point to Axel Alonzo's failed experiment to basically insult and alienate any comic book reader who was white, male, conservative, Christian, and wealthy. I know that CTA is very popular and he's got followers. But he should stick to radio and since his story is nearly a decade old it thankfully appears that the celebrity did just that.
You might like to collect single issues only. But this is one of those times you might want to reconsider as this collection completes the full year A Year of Marvels that never actually came to fruition.
When these holiday single issues were released, I thought it was a great idea. But when Marvel didn't release a 6th one-shot devoted to celebrations in the months of November and December, I was sorely disappointed. Marvel had missed out on executing a brilliant year-long plan. And thus, I kinda lost interest in collecting the whole run.
My interest was revived a few months ago when I found a copy of A Year of Marvels at a used book story for only $1! This book collected the floppies devoted to January-October. Along with those 5 one-shots, there were 3 never before published holiday specials. From Marvel Unlimited's Infinite line, I got to break bread with the Punisher in a Veteran's Day/Thanksgiving epic. Robbie Reyes returned to the City of Angels and helped me to believe in Santa. And I rang in the new year with radio host, Charlamange Tha God over at Avengers Tower.
That those last 3 stories appear in this book is proof that Marvel can indeed take all of their digital holiday specials and sell them in print form! DC does this kind of thing all the time. Why won't Marvel? There's like 30 Thanksgiving and Christmas Infinite specials that I haven't read and I gladly pay some good money for a holiday omnibus. I really think Marvel owes its fans this since in the past 5 years, the only Christmas related special released by the House of Ideas was a Star Wars Life Day one-shot. Don't get me wrong- I appreciated that amazing issue. But Marvel has been a Scrooge for a very, very long time towards it's fans of floppies.
The stories and artwork of the 5 main volumes were good. But with such a spread of artists and writers, the level of quality was varied. The Punisher story was poignant and amazing. I loved the Ghost Rider Christmas story. Though I hated how a poor little defenseless kitty who is being abused by a brat. I love that Robbie Reyes frees the kitten and threatens the bully. But if you look closely in that story, this monster has abused other animals before. And that just bothered me. That story was written by Method Man of the Wu-Tang Clan and he could write for Marvel any day in my opinion.
As for the NYE story by Charlamange Tha God, it was horrible. I think this is where fans can point to Axel Alonzo's failed experiment to basically insult and alienate any comic book reader who was white, male, conservative, Christian, and wealthy. I know that CTA is very popular and he's got followers. But he should stick to radio and since his story is nearly a decade old it thankfully appears that the celebrity did just that.
You might like to collect single issues only. But this is one of those times you might want to reconsider as this collection completes the full year A Year of Marvels that never actually came to fruition.
June 27, 2019
**ONLY READ THE FIRST COMIC**
Issue #1 started with a horribly drawn February comic about Spider-Man. The dialogue was horrible and he was drawn so badly
2nd story was a March comic about Ant-Man that was also riddled with horrible dialogue.
I don't even know what else to type. This was bad.
Issue #1 started with a horribly drawn February comic about Spider-Man. The dialogue was horrible and he was drawn so badly
2nd story was a March comic about Ant-Man that was also riddled with horrible dialogue.
I don't even know what else to type. This was bad.
March 5, 2025
This is not a bad read at all. I don't know what you guys are complaining about. It's a collection of short stories. Of course they aren't perfect. I really like the Spider-Man, Ant-Man, Ghost Rider.. Nova & Ironman issue is the most stand out! 👏
June 25, 2019
Could not get through this. It's not "a year of Marvels" it's just six stories vaguely centered around some holidays. I hear some of them are good. Meh, maybe one day I'll find out.
May 2, 2021
plus side: i counted at least 3 lgbtq characters. downside: what the fuck was that new year's eve special i think that's the worst one i've read yet
September 14, 2022
The Rocket Raccoon/Tippy Toe and Kate Bishop stories were my favorite. The rest were fine.
April 28, 2017
This book had 2 stories to it. One for Hawkeye, and one for the Punisher. Wasn't a fan for either story, and not sure what was the purpose of the calendars either.
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