ID4 Like Never Before With Marvel’s 1996 ‘Independence Day’ Comic
Nowadays movie spoilers are impressively oppressive on social media and other channels of communication, but as a kid in the '90s I only knew of three quick ways to intentionally spoil movies for myself. Drugstores had surprisingly plot-filled movie tie-in coloring books, bookstores had early movie novelizations and comic shops straddled the fence with one-shots or miniseries directly adapting a given blockbuster. By the summer of 1996, I was a self-spoiling sixth grade junkie, but for whatever reason my incredible desire to see Independence Day on opening night gave me pause when I finally found Marvel's ID4 adaptation. Before the movie came out I simply couldn't bring myself to read Will Smith welcoming me to Earth in a word balloon.