If a book is released, and ends with “And they’re PROBABLY GOING TO GET MARRIED NEXT BOOK”, and four years later the adaptation of that book’s season ends with “And they’re PROBABLY GOING TO GET MARRIED NEXT SEASON,” it’s not a spoiler if someone says, “man, that wedding episode was pretty great!” The only way this…

X2 is in a weird way a more comic-booky sequel than a lot of the MCU. Because it’s *thoroughly* a sequel. It grounds itself in continuity and moves that continuity forward. Marvel’s movies *kind of* do that, but more often just hit the reset button between movies. Like Tony Stark giving up Iron Man at the end of both…

Hey, I love GRRM’s foreshadowing. I love that the series is so carefully thought out and set up. I just can’t be excited for “that thing we all knew would happen as soon as we closed the last book five years ago.” When you have to wait that long, and foreshadowing is that clear, it just isn’t exciting.

I guess I’m just exhausted. GRRM explicitly telegraphed sooo many things that have been sooo well established with textual support by fans, and we’ve waited soo long for book 6/season 6, that I can’t be excited. All the stuff people were saying would happen/would be revealed is going to happen. And then the surprises…

so they did the thing we’ve all been expecting for the past five years. woooo

Except civil war is one of the things that saved marvel. Events keep companies afloat. Period. We should encourage the company to make those events actually good or actually useful to us readers rather than sucky cash grabs.

you uh, you don’t think that OUTLAWING it constitutes in and of itself a MAJOR cultural difference?

Then let me rephrase for clarity’s sake: you missed out on good stories because of branding. The way it was designed did indeed hearken back to Fall of the Mutants style events. And given the upcoming X-men event Apocalypse Wars, Marvel is now starting to balance between the two styles. Civil War II is Civil War…

You missed out. The Tie-Ins were better than the main title, because they either A) used one event in the main title to spin off into barely-at-all related stories, or B) had the branding but were just thematically rather than actually tied in. It was, in the end, a perfect way to handle that kind of crossover, a way…

As a reader and a fan, I’m very excited by this news. But as an io9 reader, who has been increasingly disappointing by the way the community has developed, particularly after the gizmodo merger, I’m considering leaving this site. The comment discussions aren’t always awful, but they’re certainly heading in that…

It turns out that when you delete half of a sentence, it can take on an entirely different meaning! WHODATHUNKIT

already at 18 seconds: A CLOSE UP ON TWO WOMEN!

Though if we’re going with Original Script Continuity, Leia was not yet Luke’s sister.

“Once I was finished behind shouted at I wandered out of the gymnasium”

I have no idea how 1. this is at all considered a kink or 2. how it’s kinkshaming. I’m not saying “SHAME ON YOU FOR FINDING CARTOONS SUPER DUPER SEXY OBJECTS,” I’m saying “you are gross for demanding things change to fit your (generic) sexual needs.”

As I said in an earlier reply, they’re gross because they expect our stories to cater to their masturbatory needs.

I like how the same joke appeared in every single entry, but rewritten *slightly*!

Honestly, though I don’t care about Captain Falcon, I was SUPER invested in Old Man Steve. It was such a perfect choice for the character, and it made the latter half of Hickman’s Avenger’s run much more interesting. I would have liked to see him stick around longer.

The kind of politics @buteraroyalss can fully endorse

Spider-man and the X-men is one of the greatest series of our time