Funny thing, I think the film reworks elements from those early issues to good effect. In particular, it takes a concept the 60s Captain Marvel comics don’t really handle properly — alien hero with divided loyalties — and does it much better, I thought. Twice, in fact, since Carol and Wendy both get parts of the…

Just because a work hasn’t been adapted doesn’t mean a TV network is free to pick it up, though — Sandman has been caught up in long-running attempts to make a film out of it (and the peak of excitement over the DCEU might have locked it up even tighter).

I think what’s important about the source of Carol’s powers is the lies she’s told about them — the Kree say they gave them to her and that that means she owes the Kree, in fact it was an accident and there’s no such claim on her.

Ezra Millar and Mark Miller, got it.

I was hoping for runtimes like ‘33 seconds’, ‘1 hour 0 minutes 0 seconds 0 milliseconds’ and ‘FOREVER.’

Which is also probably how Rocket would describe most of the Guardians’ adventures.

Not taking any chances in developing movies would result in very samey results (resulting in failures when people get tired of things), and on the other hand insisting that a movie that’s started development has to be made would end up in a lot of good money being thrown after bad.

Something more practical-sounding might be to say that they’re somehow the ideal shape for his charging powers to work (say, small with a big surface area?), and easy to get ahold of.

Utter deus ex machina would be bad. Playing on the point that the Avengers need to find new resources, either within themselves or from elsewhere, after having been beaten so badly *before* the Snap — that could help bring her in.

You don’t need to see the film beforehand. The TV series remixes some of its themes and concepts, but isn’t directly connected. And it is pretty good.

Peter Biskind’s DOWN AND DIRTY PICTURES might make an interesting (and possibly wince-making) read in retrospect — it’s a broadly positive portrait of Miramax during the 90s independent boom, from long before everything came out about Weinstein.

You’ve failed the audition for the Doom role. Your performance is just too understated.

There really is a Marvel character called Doctor Bong.

Just coincidence, I think. Carol didn’t become a superhero until 9 years after her debut, so the “female superhero surnamed Danvers who’s a distaff version of a male hero” doesn’t look at all planned.

She wrote it in the early 40s, followed by several more Poirot novels before it was actually published. So it was premeditated murder.

Book SPOILER, but one which won’t give much away out of context:

Most of them are decent entry points, so long as you’re prepared to roll with a few references you might not get. There are some prequel elements in this one, but I think they’d work fine as a first exposure to the characters and things in question.

The gods exist in local variants, so if it helps any it’d reflect marginalisation within America. (Still seems like a stronger base than most of the gods shown, though.)

Misinterpretation of how she provided the team name to Fury, I think. Which was a bit that felt better-earned than I was expecting.

Tennant seems fairly adaptable based on the roles I know him best from — cheery as the Doctor and in Takin’ over the Asylum, creep and darkly comic in Jessica Jones.