25 Years
1994 - Marvel Comics, Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross published a 4 issue special that rejuvenated themselves and renewed my interest in them. Marvels story took a different turn, rather than highlighting the heroes we knew, the narrative shifted on how we ( normal human being ) perceive, witness, treat and live with superheroes. Most of the time, we know that superheroes will come and save the day, battling villains - we forgot the damages, destructions incurred from it and how we need to deal and recover with the consequences. Imagine answering all the damages done by Ultraman after fighting his silly monsters. Ultraman simply flew away and that's it. Marvel addressed this consequences and partially few angles on the origin way before we got filmmakers decided to do reboots. Kurt Busiek orchestrated a brilliant re-introduction of the heroes we knew. And yes - finally we have a realistic looking Spidey courtesy of Alex Ross. A believable looking superheroes. 1994 - where ...