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comes from series such as «House», «WandaVision» the flames of the Human Torch—the best the
and «Game of Thrones», has done justice to the cinema has ever seen. Finally, with his wounded
family that served as a publishing pillar for beast look, Ebon Moss-Bachrach translates the
Marvel and inaugurated a style of comics attuned restlessness of Ben Grimm, the Thing, into the
to the cultural conflicts of its time—especially pain of not belonging, and his war cry is still
racial intolerance. The art direction he uses is there: ‘It's clobberin' time!’.
of a temperate colour and of fine precision, with
special care in the use of the colour blue, used in At the same time as talking to Norman Rockwell's
the heroes' uniforms. The plot is in line with the (1894-1978) painting, the production refers to
cinematic tradition of ‘catastrophe films,’ since Marvel's ‘comic book’ colouring in its art direction.
there is no fight against evil, as is usually the The album ‘Parable,’ by Stan Lee and Moebius
case, but rather against the extinction of earthly (1938-2012), is even explicitly mentioned when
geography. it reveals the image of Galactus, the Devourer
of Worlds. He's not a villain. He is an entity that
What is vintage in form can also be seen in the accelerates the entropy of planets condemned to
design of the characters, made by a cast in a state disappearance by the rules of the galaxies. His
of grace—and in full covalence of talents. Pedro herald, Shalla-Bal (Julia Garner), is the one who
Pascal is Reed Richards (or Mister Fantastic) will help him on his predatory path against Earth,
with a Rock Hudson air. Vanessa Kirby builds in a hunger that the Quartet will try to stop.
Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman, in an elegant,
melodramatic vein, translating the feminist The zeitgeist of yesteryear that Shakman embraces
demands of yesterday and today. Joseph Quinn is a way for Marvel to regain the prestige that
swallows every frame in which he appears under has been lost with successive failures since «Thor:

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