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A Marvel'ous read
Updated On: 28 September, 2019 07:50 AM IST | Mumbai | The Guide Team
A fan of the American media franchise reviews a set of novels on the superheroes to see how they fare in comparison to MCU and comic counterparts
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Soutrik Chakraborty. Pics/Nimesh Dave
When you’re eight years old, the superpowers you like define you," says 29-year-old Soutrik Chakraborty, remembering his childhood. Originally from Kolkata, the Mumbai-based sound engineer and musician, grew up in the 1990s. During this decade, the advent of satellite television — as a natural consequence of the economy becoming liberalised — opened up the doors to many worlds that ultimately helped shape the people who form India’s youth today. Television channels from the West and Asia that received telecasting rights, served as important conduits to these unexplored worlds.
He continues, "I remember watching Star World as a six-year-old kid. They used to telecast the original Fox X-Men series, and that’s when my foray into the world of Marvel began. It was different… I was familiar with Batman and Superman thanks to DC comics and movies, and then this entire new range of superheroes arrived." Much of Chakraborty’s reminiscing has been prompted by a set of nine novels — released for the first time as original fiction books in a partnership between the franchise and Titan Books in 2018, now made available in India through Bloomsbury Publishing — that he reviewed for The Guide. As a slow reader, inclined more towards the comics (Chakraborty’s media diet comprises a healthy servings of manga and anime, too) and the books, he says that while the books did seem cumbersome and intimidating in the beginning, they managed to catch his intrigue once he got into the rhythm of reading.
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