"Rapacious" just means they had a habit of buying a lot of other companies, greedily so.

She's not queer - not yet. I like the idea though, and think it would work for her. The ball is in Marvel's court, I guess?

That's not the audience these books are going for, point blank. This is supposed to be a more all-ages friendly book.

They left the book because it was apparently a pain in the ass to do the motion comic gimmick they committed to with the run, and the sales didn't justify the workload.

I imagine they are thinking Squirrel Girl has a decent chance if it can tap into the Ms. Marvel audience. If they can do that It'll stick around, since Ms. Marvel sells like gangbusters across all platforms.

They explained that the reason for such a large team was that Tony and Steve (before Cap was kicked out of the Illuminati) understood they needed an overwhelmingly strong team of Avengers to deal with any other threats that popped up while they were secretly battling the incursions. The idea was fully developed in…

The continuity with AXIS is pretty tight. The fact that Tony Stark is still evil and inverted in TIME RUNS OUT is going to be very important.

That was cut because, as I said in the comments below, there was about 500 words of trivia that got cut. But I put the notes up on my own site, if you're interested.

I know it's a bit down the page, but for anyone who cares there's about 500 words of stuff that got cut from the original piece because, well, it was kind of wonky trivia that probably isn't of too much interest to most AV Club readers, but might be of some interest to a few of you. Here's the "commentary" with some…

For someone who used to work as a copy editor, I am really bad at fixing that stuff in my own writing. I'm awful, basically.

Yeah, precisely. There's even a scene at the beginning of the story where Reed Richards tells him, "if you keep popping your claws, you will get an infection and die very soon."

Hey, I liked it myself! I seen it a couple times now and still enjoy it, flaws and all. It got unfairly buried, and we'll always be wondering if he could have fixed some of the problems with tone and pacing in the sequels.

I've been writing about comics for almost fifteen years!

It was cosmic! I don't think we should be nit-picking too much in terms of labels (funny from a guy who just wrote an essay about labels, I know). If it looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck.

Did you ever see the run on SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN in the mid-90s where Sienkiewicz inked Buscema? It worked surprisingly well - Buscema's rock-solid storytelling with Sienkiewicz's moody and expressionistic style.

Oh snap, shows what happens when I go strictly from memory.

The reason why its missing is because there's a full-length essay about Starlin's Warlock later in the week.

I stayed clear of Thanos and Warlock because there's a big For Our Consideration essay on them coming up later this week.

He was, just not a combat vet. He was in the signal corps and then the film division.

Yeah, that was the closest they've gotten to a real resurrection. But at a certain point no one is going to care anymore because no one will remember him as anything other than "that dead guy."