I’ll always remember the scene from The Wire where Bunk and McNulty go over an old crime and their entire dialogue is just variations of the word “fuck.”

I think the project was already in development as a Disney+ show, they just shifted it to a movie instead.

He was not, actually. Jim Shooter was the Editor-in-Chief, not the Publisher. During his tenure, the Publisher of Marvel was Stan Lee, who was Publisher from 1972 to 1996. This, in fact, was why Shooter had more creative control than Lee during that time — Shooter was in charge of the actual books as EIC, while Lee…

Right, but I assumed you weren’t talking about the person (John Nee), because that person generally doesn’t do anything about what’s going on in the books. The person in charge of what’s going on in the books is the Editor-in-Chief.

that it’s time for them to maybe hire an entirely new set of editors and publishers?

I’m excitedly looking forward to this. For anyone who hasn’t read any of Deniz Camp’s stuff, go read 20th Century Men and Children of the Vault. The first is an indie book by him that’s kind of like Watchmen, but going deeper into the history of the Cold War and every sides’ attempts at making superhumans; and Children…

Sounds like he enjoyed it.

Okay, but why would anything think this was a possibility? In the comics, they could do this way back in 2004 (and only just now are able to reprint their Marvel/DC stuff), but on TV? Yeah, no fucking way.

“They don’t want a competing Superman product in the marketplace,” Schwartz explained, effectively laying the blame for the show’s end at 2025's Superman: Legacy from James Gunn.

You know having a female protagonist doesn’t make it “female-skewing,” right? Like, I wouldn’t exactly call Madame Web “female-skewing.” Unless, of course, you think men won’t watch a movie with a female lead character in it. (Which means you are both a misogynist and wrong.)

The outlet claims the series will now be retooled with more of a “male-skewing audience” in mind, similar to Prime Video hits like Reacher and The Boys.

Actually, you’re the young whipper-snapper if you think the 1994 cartoon was the first cartoon ever of the FF. They had a live action movie prior to that cartoon — sure, it never officially came out, but it was produced by Roger Corman in 1994 and it was the first official Fantastic Four movie and still the best.

There is a great little Kingpin mini-series called “Born Against,” where the plot is Wilson Fisk finding and getting a disgraced journalist to write his biography as he’s running for Mayor. It’s just an excellent little story that could easily be adapted into an hour-long special.

Iceman being gay is only a retcon if you failed to pick up the obvious subtext going back decades.

But it’s supposed to be set in the past of the Andrew Garfield movies, which came out in 2012 and 2014.

She’s excellent in Andor, so I’m looking forward to this.

Yeah, I don’t remember anything in the ASM movies implying that they were set in the ‘90s

I always assumed all Spider-Man movies were meant to be contemporaneous to the period they were released in, so a 2003-set movie should include Tobey Maguire’s Spidey.

If by “eons,” do you mean, like “a few months”? Because Echo takes place right after Hawkeye, which took place the Christmas after everyone blipped was returned.