they almost certainly had a bit where Kamala explained that she was a mutant (which is pertinent here!)

They were also pretty much locked into the villain being a Kree character, because the movie had to somehow address her now 30 year old vow to end the Supreme Intelligence, and that restricts the options significantly.

What do you think you were missing, because I thought it did a very creditable job of (re-)introducing Kamala and Monica to audiences who may not have seen their TV appearances?

It’s almost always a mistake to assume actors know what they’re talking about.

How so? Grammer as Beast is literally the only connection being made here, which is no different to Stewart as Xavier in Multiverse of Madness.

What’s the nit? I don’t remember any anti-extraterrestrial policy coming up, and it shouldn’t because this takes place just after Ms. Marvel, which likely places it a full year or more before Secret Invasion.

To be honest, I don’t think there was anything more to tell. It’s an awful lot of fun, but it’s pretty slight, in a similar way to the first two Ant-Man entries (despite the much, much bigger stakes on show here, but it smartly backgrounds them for the most part).

I’m not sure I get why this it being tied up with AI. The core issue appears to be about use of an actor’s likeness, which is not and has never been dependent on AI. What even is an “AI scan”? Do they mean for deepfaking? Because taking a scan now seems like a waste of time — should a project that needs it ever materia…

Captain America 4 is not Thunderbolts.

Because it’s also an ironic reference to her deafness?

I recall Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old being pretty impressive. There’s no fundamental difficulty in colourising something, especially with modern tech, it’s just down to the artistry (or more often, lack thereof) involved in doing it.

No it isn’t. Existing comic readers shop in specialist stores, which are unaffected, or they know what they’re looking for and how to find it, and are unaffected. I’m not saying the other books should be withdrawn from sale, just deprioritised for a few weeks in places where non-readers might pick something up on a…

Again, who’s fucking with them? The traditional comics market can continue as normal. At worst, you avoid scheduling the next collection of the current run for that month or two to avoid a clash, assuming a collection is even due around then, and no one would even notice because they’re not on a consistent schedule…

I’m not suggesting any changes to current continuity. Any ongoing series can continue as normal, they aren’t going to appeal to moviegoers anyway.

It’s relative. The Departed largely works in its own right, but it’s in no way the tight thriller that Infernal Affairs is, which is why describing it as “lean” seems so weird.

The movie sizzles, playing out across a lean two-and-a-half hours

What are you talking about? At no point did I suggest aligning continuity or creating tie-ins. “No Normal” and “Re-Entry” are the first volumes of existing recent, successful, accessible runs.

We’re days away from The Marvels which co-stars Ms. Marvel with Fury also there, with some connections to Secret Invasion likely included.

I quite enjoyed the first half-season of The Nevers, except that it felt like it skipped over an episode towards the end (as I recall, significant events occur off-screen between episode 4 and 5, and the show largely acts like it had already told you about them — I suspect it was a casualty of rejigging the season…

I’d argue that the events in WandaVision are fundamental to Wanda’s motivations in Multiverse of Madness, and the film’s attempt to summarise them is a joke.