I really need to stop reading Mark Millar comics. I never enjoy them and am always left thinking that it should have been much better. The reason I keep getting sucked in is that Millar has such wonderful ideas. But he can’t execute them worth a damn. In Marvel 1985, Millar has a great idea about a boy of divorced parents who gets into comics and then notices that the strange abandoned house down the street is being occupied by Marvel super-villains.

But the story moves in fits and spurts. The setup is annoying and the climax is fairly silly. There are plot threads left all over the place (where did Hulk go after his fight with Juggernaut) and the characters are too predictable. And once again I’m left with a sense of longing for a better story to go along with this idea.

Tommy Lee Edward’s art is good.

The characters are well drawn, the backgrounds are good, the pacing serves the story well. But, it’s a good effort on a losing story. Not Recommended.