One that has nothing to do with the title character has to count for at least 3, right?

He was so legit excited by the stocking though!

He's a physical therapist — he worked with Felicity after she had been shot last season. (IIRC, he met Curtis while he was recovering from an athletic injury.)

I got a little veklempt when Digg hugged him. The Digg-Oliver broship is so unique and authentic, it always gets me.

Just chillin' somewhere with Stannis Baratheon.

Read this in Gene Belcher's voice.

Right. Dr. Doom has good intentions — he believes the world would be better off if he ruled it. Parallax had good intentions when he wanted to restart and "fix" the universe in Zero Hour. Veidt had good intentions in Watchman (and might have been right …), etc.

Carrie Lowell? Good!
Robert Davi? Good!
Q in the field? Good!

Hang in there. It will get better.

>surfeit of amazing stories

As a kid of the '80s and '90s, there were plenty of forgettable stories back then too. I can't give any good examples because … they were forgettable.

"Zodiac's too prestige for the genre"

I had the same reservations, but the book is really more like 85% her being a superhero and 15% her being a mom.

Well now I want Raymond Holt to take over the CCPD.

What should have been a cool Avengers spy book descended into surreal, vaguely plotted silliness, to the point that the resolution had something to do with MODOK's life-altering love for Maria Hill.

Her children were originally manifestations of part of the soul that Master "baby hands" Pandemonium bargained away to Mephisto, which is why MP had a pentagram shaped opening in his torso, and later, baby hands.

His Secret Avengers still makes me angry.

Was that the run with the Hulk on the island, and the Von Doom who was not related to THAT Von Doom?

I'd say she's been broken since she first went nuts back in West Coast Avengers, but I'm curious why you think the mystical mutant thing doesn't work anymore? (This book treats her more or less as purely a witch, FWIW.)

Hey, Byrne liked Dark Phoenix so much, he did it with Sue Richards, Talisman and Wanda too.