That's a big poster, eh?
According to Marvel, it's actually a big wall chart, but I'm not one for technical details like that.
The couple of articles that I could find about this monstrosity - here and here - are pretty much fawning previews that could well have been sent out by the House of Ideas itself. There's not much meat in the stories.
And from what I can see - thank you Flickr - the wall chart has a massive amount of meat to it. The one side is a gigando poster - twelve feet wide according to the specs - with Marvel characters grouped into five areas, each area populated with characters related in some way - part of the Spider-Man universe, the Fantastic Four crue, the magical world of Stephen Strange. It's kind of a neat poster, but I haven't taped photos to my walls for a few decades (I use hot glue at school, shut up).
It's the stuff on the flip side that kind of intrigues me. The back of the poster is filled with Marvel stories, trivia, and info - lists of characters that have died and come back, biographies of all the characters on the front, bunches more. But the fact that the backside has info to read means the poster can't be rightfully put on the wall.
Stupid...stupid...stupid...
If a buyer wanted to read the back more than once, they couldn't put it on the wall. Hence, the poster is either needlessly expensive for just being a poster (a $45 poster seems fairly costly to tape up the wall, and you're certainly not framing this beast) or a reference book that that's hard to manage and read.
Dumb, dumb, dumb, and the two Amazon reviews mirror my opinion...
They should have decided on this item being either book or a wall chart. Trying to do both at the same time just ended up with something that I couldn't put on my wall and was too big to go on my bookshelf.If you're actually interested in picking this thing up, however, Amazon is offering it for $32 instead of its suggested retail of $45.
What annoyed me more then that and why I gave this item one star instead of three was the mistakes inside the wall chart/book. Other reviewers have already commented on some of them. But, there were many others like it says the Master of Magnistism's children are Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch in the text talking about Marvel families. Forgetting someone are we?
Then it has a big picture of the House of M and it says under it that "The 'House of Magnus' as Magneto's dynasty is termed, includes the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver". Polaris is standing right beside the rest of them in the picture and whoever wrote that the caps under completely ignored her again. Later in the book it does finally get it right and says that Polaris is also Magneto's daughter. But, clearly this issue demonstrates that the editing of the wall chart/book was subpar.
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Not quite what I was expecting. It is awkward to unfold. It has a lot characters, some you wouldn't expect or understand the 'connections'. Found 4 mistakes so far. Warlock- picture is New Mutants Warlock, but the bio is Adam Warlock. Spider-Girl- picture is Arana, the bio is alternate universe Spider-girl. Guardians of the Galaxy label with picture of Galactic Guardians. Death- picture of Wolverine/Death, bio of actual Death. Its neat, but could have been so much cooler.
(All this being said, if DC put out a similar item, I'd be snatching it up in a heartbeat.)
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Plus, there's no way that thing is fitting through the lamination machine.
Correct...unless you went one piece at a time which would look horrible once put together.
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