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Marvel Weddings by Jim Shooter, Paul Ryan, Rick Buckler, Gerry Conway, Andy Kubert, David Michelinie, Steve Englehart, John Buscema, John Byrne, Fabian Nicieza, Vin Colletta, Roy Thomas, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Sal Buscema

luthien3720's review

3.0

I bought this mainly for the Spider-Weddding (which sadly wasn't included in the otherwise great "You Just Hit The Jackpot" collection from Marvel). But I was pleasantly surprised by the other wedding stories. The best in the entire collection is likely Scott Summers and Jean Grey's wedding in 1994. I wasn't crazy over the artwork but it's a very sweet story, made all the better by it being a simple wedding story: no supervillains attacking. It's beautifully narrated by Professor Xavier, a great choice given Jean and Scott are two of the original X-Men from 1971. Reading this collection, I noticed how much comic weddings remind me of soap opera weddings. Just getting to the altar takes years. Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson's nuptials were my second-favourite: as one of the two great comic romances (the other being Clark Kent and Lois Lane), it was wonderful to see them finally tie the knot--even if the story did spend a little too much time on the "are we doing the right thing" angle, which is played to death in comic romances, and especially so in Spider-Man. The Fantastic Four wedding of Reed and Sue was fun but had very little to do with the actual wedding, unfortunately. However, it's saved by being a great action story, and the cameo by two familiar would-be wedding crashers, who crash right through the fourth wall. This collection is definitely worth picking up if you're a romantic at heart.