Well, there’s Loki, but in the comics he’s lately more of an antihero/chaotic good kind of character. IIRC, he didn’t do more than flirt with anyone in his series, but the flirting did go both ways (like, the issue where Sigurd showed up there was lots of comically terrible innuendo about sword fighting).

Really? That makes me actually want to check out the show. I’m very surprised they did that.

In this case -since we’re talking about what series should be greenlit by the publisher, rather what creative direction a particular storyline should take - it’s customers telling a company what products they would like to buy from them. Which is a thing many companies spend a lot of money to try to find out.

hntergreen noticed that one of the Os in this event’s terrible name (Resurroion? Resurrxion?) looks like Black Bolt’s logo, so the Inhumans will probably play some part even in this event, which is probably post-IvX. But at the same time, yeah, I think this whole renewed X-Men push is probably going to be at the…

Good catch. Seems to me like that could imply some kind of...... merger or something between the X-Men/Mutants and the Inhumans.

Well, apparently one upcoming event (ugh) is going to be Inhumans vs X-men, so they’re at least going to give Inhumans one more push.

Somehow I doubt young Mr Trump even knows what the phrase “Iran-Contra” refers to....

The line, IIRC, is “with protests and women, the same advice goes - always stay away from the hos”. Which is a pretty clear pun on marchers getting sprayed with hoses and MLK cheating on his wife. (If you’re not familiar with the latter, he did, and the FBI bugged his hotel room and recorded it and tried to use the…

Transvestite means cross-dresser. “Vest” is the Latin root for dress. It doesn’t refer to how you identify or present yourself in terms of your gender, but only in what clothes you wear. (See: Eddie Izzard.)

There was a line in the MLK one that was a pun on “hose” and “hos”, but the joke was more about the latter meaning.

I’m in the middle of the red blob on the East Coast and haven’t had any problems either, so I’m not sure.

As opposed to not having one and just letting Assad commit war crimes against civilians?

Tangential, but.... the issue of remembering/not remembering the Cold War makes me wonder if we should draw the Gen X/Millennial line a little later. Because I am also a Millennial, and I remember the end of the Cold War. I was in grade school when the Soviet Union fell, and we learned about it in school while it…

I think they’re so used to being treated like shit that they’re resigned to it, don’t think life can ever be different, and are scared of what will happen if they try to make a change or if anyone else makes a change.

Dr. Ben Carson MD thinks the Egyptians built the pyramids to store food in. Having a graduate degree doesn’t mean you don’t have serious intellectual blind spots.

Yeah, there’s a painful degree of self-loathing and/or apathetic acceptance of misogyny that’s evident in some of these womens’ comments.

I don’t know if it’s a “take that” in a vindictive way, so much as just that they’d rather focus on properties that they own the movie rights to and could potentially turn into $1 billion movies or hit TV shows. I don’t know how much they see from the X-Men movies (from royalties/licensing fees), but presumably not…

Yeah, I think this is a big part of the push for legacy titles.

It would be nice to see some stories about superheroes retiring and mentoring younger people to take their place.

I think Marvel has two main goals here: