I read that interview too. My reaction was basically the same as yours, although more swear-y.

"And ME! SUPER KING! The best one of the three!"

I'm sorry to hear this. I was hoping that if it held on to the gains of the last two weeks, I could stop watching it until it got better. Now I'd feel guilty.

HIstorically, copyright protected some crazy-ass things when it came to superheroes. DC used to sue the hell out of little companies like Fawcett because Shazam wearing a cape was a violation of their copyright on Superman. That's also why Marvel heroes with "Man" in their name use a two word format, like Iron Man…

Hypno-Toad > Rick Jones + a bunch of Timely characters.

Fair enough. My last memory of Storm outside of the comics and the 90's cartoon was everyone laughing at how awful Halle Berry was, so I guess I didn't think of her as all that prominent. And T'Challa's publication history is pretty spotty despite him being a popular guest star. Just a difference of opinion, I…

Power Man was the only black character who headlined an ongoing for quite a while. BP had a miniseries here or there and he and Storm both made a push in the 90's, but if you view prominence as who actually moved the most paper, Power Man is probably still at the top.

I thought Fitz had an understated but funny moment with Mike when he was trying hard to impress Mike with the promise of a suit made of 12 different kinds of secret magic fibers, and getting all psyched up about making it, and Mike was just basically nodding politely.

I sort of wonder if he's going to be shown alive, choose to stay "dead" to protect his son, and maybe change his name to, say, Luke Cage or something, and then maybe show up on Netflix soon.

That's actually my fault. I accidentally sent it, and then had to go in and edit it to finish it. I hope I didn't break anyone's internet.

The scene where Clark Gregg and Throb Crunchrod are in the car talking about relationships was nice.

I was just so happy for a few moments, thinking that at least he was dead…

Also, why does everyone in S.H.I.E.L.D. constantly refer to them as The Avengers, but Mike says he got Ace (??) a bunch of "Heroes of New York" dolls. Do civilians not even call them the Avengers?

Futurama used to make a game out of finding new "He's standing behind me. isn't he?" jokes. My favorite was when they panned over to show that the subject was actually standing right in front of the person talking.

I don't know how to react in situations like this. Someone brings me a competently prepared, decent -tasting dish that I ordered THREE MONTHS ago, and I don't know whether to thank them, be pissed that it took so long, give up on the joint or what. All through the episode, I was struggling with this question…

That probably happened with Sandman already. Spider-Man called dibs, but Fox was all like "But he's in the Frightful Four!!" and Marvel is just glad nobody remembers he was an Avenger for five seconds.

The point of Spider-Man (imo)

Baby, you shovel better than any man I have ever known…

"Prevention is everyone's job, but when the fire starts roaring, Smokey is the one that's on the front lines fighting it."

Although at least there, they paid some lip service to the idea of evacuating the park; Tony tried to make Hammer understand the situation and avoid a panic; the actual goal of Vanko was to cause a civilian massacre, rather than that just being the inevitable collateral damage to the fight; Tony saved a dumb kid, etc…