Typhoid Fever

Typhoid Fever #1-3

by Clay McLeod Chapman, Stefano Landini (Illustrator), Will Robson (Illustrator)

Typhoid Mary sets her sights on Hell's Kitchen in this action-packed epic! With Daredevil preoccupied trying to take down Mayor Fisk, a power vacuum has suddenly formed in Manhattan's most dangerous neighborhood, and Typhoid Mary aims to fill it with her own unique brand of chaos. But Daredevil isn't the only guardian watching over the Kitchen's residents... and SPIDER-MAN is going to prove it!

COLLECTING: TYPHOID FEVER: SPIDER-MAN 1, TYPHOID FEVER: X-MEN 1, TYPHOID FEVER: IRON FIST 1

Genres: Comics, Marvel, X Men

112 pages, Paperback

First published February 26, 2019

About the author

Books. Children's books. Comic books. Film.

Reviews

[Baba · Rating 3 out of 5]

A number of coincidences lead to an empowered Typhoid Mary attacking New York big time. Spidey, the X-Men and Iron Fist get caught up in the drama. Yet another interesting take on the Typhoid Mary character, which isn't too bad, but the characterisations of the other heroes is almost non-existent! 7 out of 12, Three Star read.

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[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

Typhoid Mary is in the psyche ward when a doctor decides to operate on her. Of course, it goes wrong and her powers increase. She's able to affect people's perceptions and brings them all into the soap opera she used to work on. Spider-Man, the X-Men, and Iron Fist all happen to just be in the neighborhood in each issue to try and stop her. The soap opera sections aren't coherent enough to tell a story and get monotonous very quickly. The art is poor throughout the crossover. Just an all around dud.

[Adan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not entirely sure what the point of this was. They reintroduced Typhoid Mary just to get rid of her again? I liked the conceit of turning everything into a soap opera to show Mary’s state of mind, but they lost it by the Iron Fist issue, where it became just another super-hero-fights-super-villain smash up. Meh, overall.

[Crazed8J8 · Rating 3 out of 5]

A whirlwind of a story that is all out action, but not a lot happens. You'd think with Spidey, the X-Men, and Iron Fist involved, this storyline would carry more weight, but the conclusion just sort of peters out, and we're left with no real resolution and a path of destruction.
The artwork was solid throughout, as was the pacing, but overall, just a weird story (and I'm a fan of Typhoid).

[Sean · Rating 1 out of 5]

No, this is now how you do superhero comics. Throwing random characters at the wall to see what sticks usually leaves you with a mess and here we are. The art was all over the place and didn't help the terrible plot. I'm not sure I would recommend this to anyone.

[Daniel Butcher · Rating 2 out of 5]

Why this story goes deep into who Mary is and how she has been damaged, well it's a lot of fighting.

[Alex Sarll]

As a rule, modern Marvel are much better at these quiet little three-way mini-crossovers than they are at the bloated and much-trailed full-scale variety, but this one is a bit of a mess. There's a pastiche in which Typhoid Mary's amped up powers are sucking people into her delusions which are structured like the corny soap opera in which she used to act, and there's a cry of rage at the institutionalisation and medication of men who upset male certainties, and you could certainly tie those two strands together by looking at the social construction of acceptable feminities, particularly once you also have a bunch of nuns running around. But I'm not convinced those dots are ever really joined here, and any attempt to paint Mary as an avatar of wronged womanhood when she's charging around the place mind-controlling people and setting shit on fire will inevitably tend to undermine her credentials as a spokesperson. On top of which, considered at the surface level it does rapidly degenerate into mainly being a bunch of mind-controlled good guys punching each other, which has always been among the least interesting things to do with the superhero genre.