Scott Edelman
Author of The Gift
About the Author
Image credit: By K Tempest Bradford from New York City - Awards Are Scary - Jetse de Vries and Scott Edelman, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3068361
Series
Works by Scott Edelman
Marvel Masterworks, Volume 207: Captain Marvel Volume 5 [#47-57 + Avengers Annual #7 + Marvel Two-in-One Annual #2] (2014) 8 copies
The Hunger of Empty Vessels 5 copies
The Last Supper 4 copies
Captain Marvel, Vol. 1, #54 2 copies
The Suicide Artist [short fiction] 2 copies
The World Breaks 2 copies
House of Mystery # 264 2 copies
SCI FI ENTERTAINMENT (The Official Magazine of the Sci-Fi Channel. Star Wars Special Issue. Star Trek: First Contact.… (1997) 1 copy
Sci Fi, August 2008 1 copy
The Avengers Versus Thanos 1 copy
Welcome Back, Kotter No. 9 1 copy
Big Bangs 1 copy
The Human Race 1 copy
A Plague on Both Your Houses 1 copy
Goobers 1 copy
Are You Now? 1 copy
The Man He Had Been Before 1 copy
Glitch 1 copy
Petrified 1 copy
Captain Marvel, Vol. 1, #50 1 copy
Doorway to Nightmare [1-5] — Author — 1 copy
House of Mystery # 266 1 copy
Sci-Fi Entertainment Magazine - January 1999 (The Official Magazine of The Sci-Fi Channel) (1999) 1 copy
No More Mr. Nice Guy 1 copy
Associated Works
Tales of the Wandering Jew: A Collection of Contemporary and Classic Stories (European Literary Fantasy Anthologies) (1991) — Contributor — 25 copies
Postscripts Magazine, Issue 15: Worldcon 2008 Special (2008) — Contributor, some editions — 13 copies
Worlds of Light & Darkness (The Best of DreamForge and Space & Time Book 1) (2021) — Contributor — 8 copies
Science Fiction Eye #07, August 1990 — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Edelman, Scott
- Legal name
- Edelman, Scott
- Birthdate
- 1955
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
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Statistics
- Works
- 116
- Also by
- 49
- Members
- 328
- Popularity
- #72,311
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 18
- Languages
- 1
It ought to be exciting, right?
I remember liking these comics as a kid. Really I do. And Marvel has given us some good movies over the last several years, using the Avengers. I was really pleased to see this available in Kindle Unlimited.
Unfortunately, it's just silly and disjointed, and the art isn't that good.
Yes, these are separate comics published over a period of about a decade, from different specific lines, focused on different main characters. But it's presented as being the story of the Avengers battling Thanos to protect the universe, as if there's a coherent story, here.
There isn't. Repeatedly we see Thanos finally and completely defeated, and then back in the next part of the sequence, present as if the previous defeat hadn't been presented as decisive. New characters appear, presented as if we should already know them.
And really, in the end, I don't care. There's backstory that I don't remember, if I ever read those particular comics, that isn't here, that would probably make it all feel a bit more coherent. In what is included here, Marvell and his alter ego, Rick Jones, are the only characters whom I was able to feel much connection to at all, and even that was tenuous.
Mostly, I just didn't care what happened to these characters.
Clearly, I'm not the intended audience here. I suspect the intended audience for this collection is the audience of readers who loved these comics when they were younger, and never stopped loving the Marvel universe.
I read this for free from Kindle Unlimited, and that's a bit of a relief.… (more)