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anybody who has the last panel of the Morrison mini in their minds may find this a sad way to bring the character back... at least for now.
Exactly.
The implication, and a very believable one, was that Marvel Boy would, like Alan Moore;s Tao, completely confound and overcome The Cube by, like everything else, undermining its basic philosophical structure.
The most interesting thing about Morrison's MARVEL BOY was how he, in a Kirby-esque way, turned a basically magick-based exploration of the philosophical ideas that provide the unconscious foundations of all human activity into a dramatic, fun and compelling Weird Adventure story.
Heilbroner in his great book THE WORLDY PHILOSOPHERS makes an unusually insightful point that most of the world's daily activity, our economy, is governed by ideas developed by academicians who've been dead for a hundred years or more. That really was the realm where Marvel Boy's adventures took place and that was his primary conflict with Midas. Midas philosophy, turn everything to his advantage, necessitated that he turn everything to a disadvantage for everyone else. Marvel Boy, as a "super diplomat" found solutions that benefited the disadvantaged. |
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