Marvel Comics

[Rachel Caldecott]

20 Storytelling Lessons We Can Learn from Marvel – The Mission – Medium

 

[Paul Whybrow]

Useful lessons indeed, especially the first one: Heroes are not inherently interesting. Only dynamic, flawed characters can connect with dynamic, flawed humans.

This is a particular problem in my writing genre of crime, which is populated with dysfunctional addicted and traumatised sleuths, who somehow manage to combat the always more interesting villains that readers love to hate. As the old saying goes, "No one likes a known-it-all," and that includes fictional heroes.

 

[lrholland]

They forgot "Less is more".

 

[Paul Whybrow]

They forgot "Less is more".

That's exactly what I tried to convince my ex-wife of...it didn't work!

 

[Deleted member 604]

That's exactly what I tried to convince my ex-wife of...it didn't work!

Sorry to hear that Paul, I really am.

As they say - "The Villian plays the Victim so well." - I know.

 

[Deleted member 604]

Huge MARVEL fan though

 

[Tom's House]

So many strong lessons from such paltry art.

 

[Rachel Caldecott]

So many strong lessons from such paltry art.

I gather you aren't a fan

 

[Rachel Caldecott]

That's exactly what I tried to convince my ex-wife of...it didn't work!

Hugs

 

[KG Christopher]

Love marvel. Stan lee is a genius.

 

[Rachel Caldecott]

The Provocative Imagination Behind Comic Books - The Imaginative Conservative

I also have a personal reason to love Marvel which I might have mentioned before. When my brother was terminally ill Stan Lee and the actors of the Marvel Universe rallied behind him and sent selfies and messages of support. (He was a scholar and life long comic book/art fan). Marvel Studios also arranged to give a private showing of Captain America- The Winter Soldier at his home because he couldn't get to the cinema and would have been dead by the time it came out on DVD. It didn't cure him but it did uplift him, and gave us, his family, something to think about other than his suffering.

 

[Amber]

They forgot "Less is more".

Speaking of less is more... Avengers opened last weekend.

 

[Rachel Caldecott]

Speaking of less is more... Avengers opened last weekend.

For the first time ever I missed the first showing But my 18 yr old son saw it 3 times in a row. I think he might have enjoyed it.

 

[Deleted member 604]

@Rachel Caldecott-Thornton

3 times in a row.

He enjoyed it alright LOL