Nice combo of summary and analysis.

(Meaning, it’s not that it didn’t age well, but that it was ALWAYS known to be problematic).

Oh, most of these examples were issues that were talked about when it came out. This perspective is NOT one that you can dismiss as modern “wokeness.” Even Mad Magazine’s parody (March 1979 issue) explicitly called them out and it was directed at possibly the most immature, dismissive of women’s and consent issues…

Not how it happened. The gimmick of Secret Wars was that all of the characters vanished in Central Park at the end of one issue and reappeared at the beginning of the next; some of them changed. THEN the 12-part monthly series started. One of these changes was Spider-man’s costume. It was changed, IIRC, in SW #7, but…

Like I acknowledged a day before your “response,” probably so, but it’s a really long comment thread, I guess. That said, assuming that there were no discussions of any kind because it’d be unethical is a bit unrealistic. Idle fanboy/”What if...?” speculation happens.

But whatever reason keeps him out of this or any sto…

From the B&W photos on the dossier wall and the shots of the programs being shown on a CRT screen, I am inferring that the “Westfield reality” (I’m not prepared to say it’s solely Wanda’s yet*) is being broadcast out as TV signals and that is how the dossier maker got those shots.

* My preferred, pet theory at the…

That seems unnecessarily insulting. Also, I was clearly talking about the aspect of the inclusion of previously Fox-controlled IP, not using about their using Mojo specifically.

Honestly, I never considered that. I can see how that may very well be the case. Interesting, also because I’ve put that out as a pet theory for years since the rumors started. It made sense to me, as I have to always have a Plan B for my planning at work and no one has ever brought up that possibility.  But, yeah,…

But, to be fair, if they didn’t plan for the very likely Fox purchase, they’re morons. And I think filming only wrapped this summer or fall, so there’s a pretty wide window where they could have tweaked things once it went through.

About 15 years ago, my husband and I went to a friend’s place for NYE. It was a nice evening. But going home, we got cab #1, literally the Chicago cab that had that license. On top of that, it was being driven by The Singing Cab Driver (or Human Jukebox?) who, based on your answers to three or four questions, would…

He didn’t get THE Cap serum, but he got a treatment from whomever retrieved him after his fall in “Captain America” or the Russians. I think that the first and only mention is in “Civil War” when he’s telling Cap that the other Russian agents were dangerous killers even before they got (I think he said,) “the serum.”…

“I disagree with them purposely pushing on modern “politicians” as some responders are saying.”

There were several very obvious references to Trump - the most telling was the “Power of Positive Thinking” comment to the President. But it was only an aspect of the character.

The sidekick of the original 1940s Human Torch. He was labeled a mutant when they brought him back to the MU, but switched him to being Inhuman a few years ago.

The modification to his power set was kind of cool, though.

“In doing so, Lovecraft Country kills off a queer, Black woman offscreen”

Ruby may not actually be dead. We know the person being copied has to be alive (in a coma) for spell to work. The book also mentions that the copies person experiences what the person wearing their form experienced.  Presumably, the only way they…

Leti possesses and has read a lot of the Book of Names. She may know very well that Ruby is still “alive.” In the book, William (Christina in the show) makes a point that the dopplergaenger-ed person experiences what the person assuming their form does, so there’s a level of consciousness, rather than a vegetative…

I thought the observatory was in Wisconsin. At least it is in the book.

“the protection spell is what stopped the racist cops from coming through the door”

The house was already barred against magic users back in the second(?) episode by the woman from their old neighborhood, marking the door in goat’s blood. Christina was blocked from coming in an episode or two later. The cop who was,…

In-story reasoning: I assume they have to get as close the point the book is to have burned up as possible. As far as our team knew, every minute it’s gone is a minute that someone could have discovered it was missing and kicked off a new decision tree.

Reality: Yeah, they wanted to show the riots. But damn, Dreamland…

“And strictly speaking, Ireland was officially neutral during the war”

I don’t think COVID CRAZY is talking about WWII, but their own war for independence.

I think the odds are a bit better that it will last with the corporate shifts in the last few years. In addition to the Marvel properties Disney got from Fox, they also got Fox’s partial ownership in Hulu, which gave them controlling interest. What I remember hearing is that the strategy was for the more adult Disney…