"I was not a comic book reader," Patrick Stewart says, with a distinct note of apology. "Not those kind, anyway. I read storybook comics, and when I was much younger I read children’s cartoons. But I never read, nor indeed had any interest in, any of the Marvel-superhero type of comics." There was a time when an eminent 73-year-old actor wouldn’t feel obliged to apologize for that lapse in four-color literacy, but that was before superhero movies ate Hollywood. And it’s partially his own fault: It wouldn’t have happened without the success of 2000’s X-Men, the first real Marvel […]

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