Personally, I’m super bummed by the news that Hulu and CW cancelled their deal. Since I had my Hulu account prettymuch entirely for Flarrowverse shows, I’ll probably be getting rid of that subscription, but the real bummer is that I don’t know how I’ll keep up with the shows now. I saw a rumor that Netflix and CW are…

Interesting, are there any guides or sites online you’d recommend for an Average Joe who is intrigued by your comments?

Your wife probably wouldn’t approve either

He was a bit of an antihero. He was half human half demon, and consequently had two souls, a normal human one and a demonic one, his “darksoul” which, along with a trident made from a metal native to hell that conjured mystical flames, gave him his powers. He was constantly struggling to assert his humanity because…

Thor having a showdown with Ulik while Loki pulled strings in the background and continued to pretend to be Thor’s buddy for a bit probably would have been far superior to the actual plot we got though... The whole Loki turning evil thing was relatively well handled for what it was, but it was rushed due to the need…

My guess is that Mephisto will be pulling the strings but his agent on Earth who can be involved in physical confrontations will be Trish’s new boyfriend, who will be a mix of her comic book character’s husband and classic Defender Daimon Hellstrom, the Son of Satan and Mephisto’s comic book son Blackheart.

Worth noting that Trish’s comic book counterpart ended up marrying the son of one of Marvel’s other Satan analogues. My guess is that Mephisto will be pulling the strings but that a character who is a meld of Blackheart and Daimon Hellstrom will be his agent on earth who can actually get punched in the face.

My guess is that Mephisto might be pulling the strings, but the Netfenders won’t actually fight him. More likely, they will fight Trish’s creepy new boyfriend...

Shoot. I was hoping for Demonicus.

Good news is, I am willing to bet if this rumor is true, you’ll get to see Luke Cage punch Trish’s comic book husband and classic Defenders character, Daimon Hellstrom in the face.

The wheels in my head started to turn with the Mephisto rumor and I started to get excited because I remembered who Trish’s main romantic interest in the comics has always been... someone who was long associated with the original Defenders. Then those wheels turned some more and I remembered that Trish’s main romantic…

It is worth noting that, in the comics, Mephisto is generally not the kind of villain that Captain America throws his shield at or something. Unless your name is Dr. Strange or maybe like Silver Surfer or Thor, Mephisto has never been the type of villain the Marvel heroes could punch, which is part of why he has…

Mephisto in the comics has rarely ever actually personally fought anyone, even charactes who might concievably be more in his league. What he has done is manipulate and made faustian deals with a wide range of characters. If people started popping up in Hell’s Kitchen having made disastrous deals with some sort of…

You forgot one of the spookiest.

Yeah, that’s sort of my point. Although it is worth pointing out that Marv Wolfman explicitly stated that Vigilante wasn’t inspired by Death Wish. Wolfman’s Adrian Chase was concieved as more of a law and order type who only used guns as a last resort when all legal remedies had failed, and actually tried pretty hard…

Yes, and one of the people Steven Grant pitched his Punisher miniseries to was Marv Wolfman, who said it wouldn’t work. He wasn’t interested in doing a Death Wish type comic hero, and said that pretty explicitly when Vigilante debuted

(What doesn’t make sense is why anyone involved in Batman v Superman thought this character was a secret worth keeping for the past two years.)

Yeah, that was kind of the whole point of the character. I really hope Arrow’s writers are aware of that. Like he really isn’t just a Punisher clone, especially because he predates the first Punisher solo miniseries

Not really. Vigilante predates Punisher’s first solo series and debuted at a time when the editors at Marvel were pretty certain that Punisher couldn’t star in his own comic. So it’s not like he was the kind of character that DC was clamoring to copy. Writer Steven Grant and artist Mark Zeck pitched a Punisher…

To be fair, Vigilante was probably not really a Punisher knockoff. Not only is he a lot more morally conflicted than Frank Castle, but he debuted before Punisher had a successful solo series. At the time Adrian Chase came debuted, Punisher was still largely relegated to a supporting character role, having only made…