Marvel Gets RANKED (Again)

Every. Marvel. Movie. Gets. RANKED. Again

Read the last one if you want.

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19. Iron Man 2
18. Thor: The Dark World
17. Avengers: Age of Ultron
16. The Incredible Hulk
15. Iron Man
14. Ant-Man
13. Doctor Strange
12. Thor
11. Captain America: The First Avenger
10. Guardians of The Galaxy

9. Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 2
Everything I liked about the first one just cranked up a few notches. Feels less important than the first one, but I still like it more. The main villain is a planet. So it's hard to ignore that. Baby Groot is obnoxiously cute. Rocket, Drax, and Star-Lord all get great emotional moments. I like Mantis more than most people do. Yondu's entire arc, man. I was not prepared to feel emotions. Also, Sylvester Stallone is now part of the MCU so that's f$&king awesome. Adam Warlock tease is good, music selections were great. I was listing to "The Chain" every other night after that film. Just a lot of fun with a lot of emotion.

8. Spider-Man: Homecoming
It's cool we have a Spider-Man movie and everything, I guess it's underwhelming now because of what he does in Civil War and Infinity War. Still, this is my favorite Spider-Man outside of the comics. Bar none. Matter of fact with the way Dan Scott wrote him I probably like the movie one more than the comic one. His costume is dope, he's actually a believable teenager in a believable high school with an age-appopriate Aunt May. It's not too much Spider-Man stuff at once. Micheal Keaton as The Vulture is way cooler than that character ever deserved and it's really cool seeing Iron Man as this mournful mentor to Spider-Man, it really made me switch opinions from how I saw the two of them in Civil War. Awesome cameos by comedians I like, and probably the closest the MCU has gotten to being street level outside the Netflix series.

7. The Avengers
6. Iron Man 3

5. Thor: Ragnarok
Fun. Fun. Fun. I like how Taiki Waititi took this dying solo movie franchise and said "Let's make it f$&king funny and action-packed and crazy". Let's Flash Gordon this sh@& up! All the ballsy stuff they did with Asgard being destroyed and Thor losing his hammer and his dad and his eye, like damn. And Hela is a hella great villain. Pun intended, I really want to see more of her. She's great. Doctor Strange making a cameo with more character than his entire film AND wearing yellow gloves. Valkyrie is a cool new character, Loki continues to be great, The Hulk has an interested arc in the film. Grandmaster is a welcomed addition. All the Jack Kirby inspired design with "Planet Hulk" elements mixed in was smart. It's funny how two completely different film synopsis managed to gel so perfectly into each other. And what a great climax.

4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

3. Black Panther
African-inspired future city with the most advanced technology, most adaptable metal, and with traditions so old and practiced it perfectly recreates the sensation of visiting a new country. This film did so much right with a concept it would have been easy to mess up. But it respectfully and excitedly brings this underrated character's myths to the big screen. Killmonger is another knock-out villain with a great ending to his story. Klaw is just stupid fun. I remember being really worried this film wouldn't astound me like Thor 3 or Infinity War would, but I was wrong. It fires on all cylinders and I can't think of anything bad about it outside of the "hero versus bad guy in hero suit" thing. It's only 3rd by personal opinion. If this were a more fact-based rank it'd number one.

2. Captain America: Civil War

1. Avengers: Infinity War
A cold ending nobody saw coming. Teams ups nobody knew they'd love. New locations, new costumes, new villains, and a film to pay off all films before it, Infinity War was worth the hype. And it ain't even done. Elements of the MCU I totally spaced on became important, interactions and relationships tested. All while having some of the funniest lines in the MCU. So quotable. Seeing all these characters assembled brings back feelings I had for Avengers and Civil War. A better Doctor Strange than his own movie. Proof that The Falcon is useful. Some surprise experience of the dwarfish and reddish variety. Seeing both lasting deaths and cliffhanger deaths. The final war scene is epic. Thor's arc was awesome and his new weapon is badass. Captain Marvel teased. The only complaint I've heard for this movie is how if you haven't seen any other MCU films you'll be lost here. But for me that's not a flaw, it's a plus. This isn't a film for anybody, every other MCU film is. Half of them are origin movies for God's sake. This film is a payoff to everyone like me who's given enough of a crap (and enough money) to pay attention and follow all this. And it's not like it's impossible to catch up. Spend a week and a half and you watch all the movies. Spend two days and watch my essentials list. Spend half an hour on Youtube. This isn't like "Return of The Jedi" when it premiered where you had no internet to tell you what the first two Star Wars were about. It's 2018 God damn it, and if I want to watch a movie about something I don't know about I'll f%&king Google what I need to know so I can enjoy the film. I'm the consumer so only I should care if I'm lost or not watching a Marvel movie. And as a guy who has spent the last ten years praying at the flawless alter that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
I don't count Iron Fist or Inhumans as part of that alter, by the way.
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Before You Watch Infinity War

So, you want to see Infinity War, but just don't feel caught up on everything in the MCU. It's cool. I understand how hard it can be to watch two Marvel movies a week and then be done catching up. You want something easy. A required viewing list perhaps? Well, The Panel Biter has got you covered with this! The Panel Biter's Required Viewing for Avengers: Infinity War!

Avengers

Ahem. "Duh". You get all your main characters introduced with quick and simple explanations. Tony is a rich guy who built an armored suit, Thor and Loki are Norse Gods, Hulk is Hulk, Cap is a WWII super-soldier in the modern day, and everyone else is a secret agent. Boom. You get the establishment of The Avengers, two Infinity Stones, SHIELD being a thing, and half of Thanos' face at the end. And if there's time travel in A4, this film is even more important.

Captain America: Winter Soldier

This film comes in handy because you might find yourself saying "Boy, SHIELD sure wraps up a lot of things in this universe" or maybe "Wow, SHIELD must be ran by jerks if they were gonna nuke New York". This film explains the awful truth about SHIELD and removes it from the table. It also introduces The Winter Soldier and sets up his importance in this universe. You also get to see the beginning of Captain America's more rebellious side that's further explored in A3.

Guardians of The Galaxy

If The Avengers are main course, The Guardians of The Galaxy is like the fun side dish. This film introduces the weird and wild cosmic side of the MCU, has another Infinity Stone along with a full explanation behind them. An explanation given in two other films as well. Plus, Thanos makes a freaking appearance in this film WAY before Infinity War. Now I didn't include this film's sequel because aside from Groot being a baby and Mantis being introduced it really didn't have any lasting effects on the universe. If Adam Warlock ends up being in A4 than we can talk about the sequel.

Avengers: Age of Ultron

This film introduces Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and The Vision. Two of whom are important in A3. Like Avengers, and Winter Soldier it gives some clout to stuff in Civil War regarding superhero battles causing disasters. We see Klaw who appears in "Black Panther". The whole Ultron/Vision/Mind Stone thing is set up here. Another Infinity Stone info dump. Hulk flying off into space and The Newish Avengers being formed.

Captain America: Civil War

Literally a better Avengers 2 than Avengers 2. Has almost every hero in the MCU. Explains the Avengers breaking up and reveals a shocking revelation about The Winter Soldier and why he unintentionally kicks off the title event. Introduces Black Panther, introduces the MCU version of Spider-Man, and it gives you of Ant-Man and how he works. Ends with where we find a lot of Infinity War's characters left off.

Thor: Ragnarok

Tells you where The Hulk has been, what happened in "Thor: The Dark World", and we revisit Marvel's version of space. Mjolnir is destroyed which is resolved in A3. Thor loses an eye, his father, and his sister he never knew about. Tells you how Thor and friends got in a space ship before Thanos finds them. Clears up some Infinity Stone related information. We get to meet Doctor Strange for a quick minute and we learn as much as we need to know about him. In fact, Doc's cameo in this film and his role in A3 are probably a better watch than his solo film. Oh, and we meet The Collector's brother The Grandmaster. So that's fun.

Black Panther

This is the most "Maybe" part of the list because unless you want to see Wakanda before the final act of A3, or you wanna know what happened to Klaw, or how Bucky is doing, or who Shuri, M'Baku, and Okoye are, you don't necessarily need to see this movie. It's probably the best made and best written Marvel movie to date. Even more so than Infinity War. But other than what I mentioned it doesn't have a huge impact on Infinity War. Like, the war rhinos don't even return. 5/10 Infinity War. Because no war rhinos.

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What Marvel Movies do you think are required to see Infinity War?

Lightning Facts

Are you a fan of Black Lightning? Well, you'll be shocked by these One Dozen Black Lightning Facts!

1. Black Lightning was DC Comic's first leading black superhero and he was created by Tony Isabella and Trevor Von Eeden. Tony had previously written "Luke Cage: Hero For Hire" in 1972, so DC Comics commissioned him to create and write a similar, street-based hero in 1977.

2. In terms of his name in the comics, Jefferson Pierce has admitted to fellow African-American hero Mister Terrific he decided to call himself "Black" Lightning because he was the only Black hero around at the time.

3. After the cancellation of his series, Black Lightning became a founding member of Batman's Outsiders. The Outsiders were a covert operations team founded by Batman to take part in missions The Justice League could not. Black Lightning had been on various Outsiders rosters, he has lead certain rosters as well, and his eldest daughter Anissa/Thunder has also been on the team.

4. Anissa Pierce/Thunder does not have electricity manipulation powers like her father, instead she has the ability to manipulate her density to become light enough to fly and heavy enough to create shockwaves. She is also a Lesbian and had romantic relationship with the superstring Outsider named Grace Choi. However, his second daughter Jennifer Pierce shares his electricity powers.

5. Black Lightning is a Metahuman, a term used in the the DCU to identify a superpowered individual. A Metahuman is defined as someone who was either born with superpowers as a result of their parent(s) being a Metahuman, or a scientific experiment turning them into a Metahuman. So while The Flash, Black Canary, and Metamorpho can be labeled as Metahumans, people with powers via heritage or biological reactions like Wonder Woman and Superman are not. Neither is Green Lantern who's powers come from an object or Aquaman who is a human/Atlantean hybrid.

6. During Lex Luthor's presidency, Jefferson Pierce was his Secretary of Education. The superhero community was upset, but Jeff believed he could do more good in the system than outside of it. After Lex came out as a villain again and his Vice President Pete Ross became President, he asked Jeff to resign.

7. Black Lightning was the inspiration behind Static Shock. Both in design and in continuity. When Virgil got his electricity powers he directly took notes from Black Lightning and the two have met before, with some people asking Black Lightning if he's Static's father. 

8. Due to Tony Isabella's rights over the character, Black Lightning could not make his proposed appearance on the 1970's TV series "Superfriends". Instead, the writers of the show created Black Vulcan, a character who shared the same powers and color scheme as Black Lightning.

9. Black Lightning's archenemy is Tobias Whale, an overweight, albino, African America crime lord who leads an organization in Metropolis called The 100. The 100 has also come to blows with Superman and Booster Gold. Tobias weights 400 pounds, and is mostly muscle.

10. Jeff is a Gold Medal-winning Olympic decathlete who went on to become the principal of a high school in Southside (Suicide Slums) on the south end of Metropolis.

11. In "Injustice 2" Black Lightning is a playable character. However, he was created as an alternate skin for Mortal Kombat's Raiden, who was a DLC guest character. This alternate skin came with small attack cosmetic changes and unique voiceover lines.

12. When Tony Isabella first pitched the character to DC Editorial he proposed a character called The Black Bomber, a man who was racist against white people. Don Markstein called it an insult to everybody. In one issue of "Justice League", Vixen battles a villain named Brown Bomber, an idealized version of Tony's original concept.

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Who is your favorite lightning-shooting black guy!?

Panel Biter Podcasts 5/25/18

Raffi Reviews "Deadpool 2"

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YbxdNokd-jN_gk9HgU5DijNGRNaFzNbc

Comic Buffet/Second Serving "Kingdom Come"

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DNzAIa-eFOct-9eZB3wnnHOWUbV7O47F

The Weekly Flip Vol. 2 #8

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-HsnnmKu7Po4twSCDt1aNpuv4_urAjJc

The After Party #5

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AgnYEKdI-J8JM72TbqrOFTSRKPxwmhvf

What If Supergirl...

Imagine being raised from childhood by your cousin. That'd be weird, but it was the original plan for Kal-El when his parents sent him to Earth with his cousin Kara Zor-El following behind. However, due to the gravitational pull of another planet, Kara didn't get to Earth until thirty years later. Now her baby cousin is a full-grown man and she's still a teenager. Sure, it's weird. But it could have been weirder. What if Supergirl landed on Earth with Kal-El?

The year is 1980. John and Martha Kent had been on their way home in Smallville, Kansas when a space craft fell from the sky and into a nearby wheat field. Upon investigation, the young couple discovered a baby boy no older than two years old inside the craft. A second craft crashes not too far away and the couple take the child to the second ship. From the second ship a teenage girl appears, speaking some unknown language. Scared and threatened, she motions towards the baby. Martha believes the girl could be the boy's mother and returns the child. Kara takes Kal and runs, and as she runs she discovers how quicker she is on this planet. She discovers how strong she is when she burst through trees trying to escape any civilization. The sweet, kind, and thoughtful attitude of Kara Zor-El begins to fade when she finds herself on a planet she doesn't understand with the power of a God.
Weeks go by and Kara uses her powers to strong-arm the small town. Taking food, water, and clothing with no payment or remorse. The police can't hurt her and her cousin can't be taken away. Kara, at first, regrets stealing. However, she justifies it all by believing it is for Kal's protection. The U.S. military takes action when this extra-terrestrial bullies Smallville, and a squad of soldiers led by newly appointed US General Sam Lane. They throw soldiers, bombs, and tanks at this alien, but to no avail. Sam doesn't let up, that is until his sniper claims he saw the arm of a baby come out of Kara's duffle bag. Sam had ignored everything about the child until now, and realizes Kara's reasons for stealing from this town. Sam orders his men to stand down and he walks over to Kara. Kara has learned a little English in her few weeks here and understands the General doesn't want to hunt them anymore. Sam presents a photo of his newborn daughter, Lois. He understands Kara's actions, and wants to help her.
After much convincing and document signing, Kara and Kal are adopted by Sam and Elle Lane and become the siblings of Lois Lane. It's a bumpy road to earn her trust, but after three years of living on Earth with the Lanes, Kara is pretty happy. She doesn't have to go to private school, she and Kal are taken care of, and she doesn't have to scare anybody anymore to get what she wants. Sure, the family can be pretty strict given Sam's military background, but Kara is too full of maturity and respect for Sam to let his rules sour her. On her 18th birthday, Sam gets a call and Kara overhears. Sam explains that the only way the US government could allow him to raise the two aliens was to promise Kara's assistance when she reached 18. Help in what? The Iran-Iraq War.
Upon discovering what kind of powers Kara has, the U.S. military insisted on enlisting the girl into the army. They believe if someone like her landed in the 30's, they would have won WWII with no hesitation. Sam hates the idea of sending his new daughter out in the middle of a war the US isn't even fighting, but his superiors believe revealing Kara as this peacekeeping juggernaut could not only end international wars, but prevent any future threats to the US. Of course, Sam asks "and what if she doesn't want to fight". And his bosses tell him, "then you tell her to fight or the baby will". Kara is convinced by Sam that the people she has to fight are bad people who need to be scared into lowering their arms. Only then can the US help the countries come to an agreement. Kara is trained in close-quarters combat and learns the ways of an American soldier.
Upon the first day of her mission, Kara meets US Army scientist Emil Hamilton who presents her a costume. Red, white, and blue, adorned with stars and a red cape. Kara and Sam are both confused, but Emil further explains that the US wants Kara to be a sort of symbol, for her to represent the US while also being widely recognizable like Uncle Sam. Kara's only request is for the House of El's crest to be placed on the chest of the suit, and Sam suggests they lose the cape as he believes it's "a little too much for a costume that's too much". Now suited, trained, and briefed, Kara is given the name Stargirl and sent out to help end the Iran-Iraq War. It's no easy task for a kid, but's not just any kid.
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I Didn't Like Deadpool (At First)

WARNING! WARNING! OBLIGATORY DEADPOOL POST! Yeah, you read the title right. For a long time I did not like The Merc With The Mouth, The Regenerative Degenerate, the DJ DP himself.  And if you're here thinking "how can you hate Deadpool? His movie was awesome" than I got some news for you. This has nothing to do with the movie.

I became familiar with Deadpool when "Secret Invasion" came out in 2008, and further looked into the character when he made a playable appearance in "Marvel vs Capcom 3", it's sequel, and then never again because "MvC Infinite" was stupid. Now I know the character pretty well, and "pretty well" translates to "I actually read his comics. At the time of this post being written, my podcast The Comic Buffet-which you should listen to if you're sick of reading-has covered five Deadpool stories. These being The Deadpool Killogoly (Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe, Deadpool Killustrated, and Deadpool Kills Deadpool), Deadpool The Duck, and an arc from Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn's run on Deadpool called "The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly". The latter will be revisited for a Comic Buffet in honor of the movie's sequel, as we did the same story for the last movie.

I tell you all this because A. I really need more downloads on my podcasts and B. because I recognize the popularity of the character. Thing is, I didn't fall for it. I feel most people like Deadpool because he's funny, he's not high-strung like the typical superhero, and he's "Memetastic". But me? Never got into that. So he's funny? Most comic book characters are without being annoying. So he's not high-strung? Again, most superheroes can be pretty casual. And being "Memetastic"? Well, excuse my honesty, but being into memes is not a personality.

Look, I'm happy people like Deadpool. I'm happy if anyone likes anything comic book related. And if liking Deadpool got you to pick up a few issues than thank you for helping the industry and enjoy your books. But I can't find something enjoyable if there's no surface behind it. I don't like Doctor Doom because he's super powerful, I like him because he has a sympathetic backstory and his rise to power gives him complexity. I don't like Blue Beetle because he looks cool, I like him because he's some teenager trying to fill the shoes of a gadgeteer he's never met (pre-Rebirth anyway). And I cannot enjoy a character just because he is funny. This is the part where I say "But" again.

I like Deadpool now. Not because of the movie. Not because of the video game. Not because of the cartoon. And not because some of my closest friends won't shut up about the guy. I like him because I understand what Gerry Duggan has been trying to say about Deadpool for the last six years. Deadpool is a miserable, unhappy, unsatisfied, underachieving, mentally ill victim who hides behind jokes. He makes references, he makes people laugh, he does stupid stuff, all to hide the fact that he is unstable. He has family he either doesn't remember or doesn't want to remember. He has been through so much pain that his laughter is simply a cry for help. Help he doesn't think is good enough. Help he doesn't think he deserves. In the last six years, Deadpool has become a millionaire, he's founded a team, he's been an Avenger, he's worked for SHIELD, and he's become close friends with the likes of Spider-Man, Captain America, and Wolverine. Deadpool didn't meme or shove his way into the spotlight of Marvel Comics. And he didn't get there by just being Deadpool He got there because Duggan gave Deadpool a soul. He gave Deadpool the heart of a hero, something this poster-boy has been lacking for decades. And now that Duggan is leaving the book, Skottie Young will inevitably suppress Deadpool back into the pop culture slut he used to be. A joke with no voice. A hero with no heart. And just in time for his last movie.

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Can we talk about how Colossus is more loyal to the comics in "Deadpool" than any of the X-Men films?

Cable Facts

Are you a fan of Nathan Summers? Because we got One Dozen Cable Facts from the future!

1. Cable's parents are Scott Summers/Cyclops and Madelyn Pryor. Pryor is a clone of Jean Grey created by Mister Sinister. Rachel Summers and Nate Summers-who come from an alternate future-share the same father, but have Jean Grey as a mother. Cable was also the subject for the creation of his evil clone Stryfe. 

2. Nathan Summers is infected with the Techno-Organic Virus, which turns the victim's body into metal. Cable uses a majority of his telekinetic powers to fight the virus back. In his timeline, Cable was infected when he was a child by Apocalypse and Scott allowed a woman named Anaski to take Cable to the future where he could be cured. This was a one-way trip and Nathan grew up to become the half-metal mutant.

3. Cable is the founding member of X-Force, which was founded in "The New Mutants #100" in 1991. His team included characters like Shatterstar, Cannonball, and Warpath, to name a few. In 2004, Cable's creators Louise Simonson and Rob Liefeld wrote "Deadpool & Cable". Deadpool's mouthy attitude and Cable's stoic personality meshed well together, leading to the characters having a love/hate relationship.

4. In 2005, Scarlet Witch used her reality-altering powers to remove a majority of mutants from Earth and turn them into humans. Only 198 mutants kept their powers and the X-Gene was wiped out from genetics around the world. The first mutant born after "Decimation" was a little girl Cable named Hope. Hope's town was destroyed an anti-mutant group and Cable saves her. Cable believes Hope is a Mutant Messiah, but fellow time-traveler Bishop believed she was "a mutant anti-christ". Cable raised Hope in the far future, training her how to use her mutant powers. She became significant in the event "Avengers vs X-Men" and remained an X-Men in the future.

5. Cable shortly led The Avengers Unity Division in "Uncanny Avengers" where he helped the heroes battle Stryfe. This team included fellow X-Men like Rogue and Deadpool.

6. In the "Earth X" reality, Cable is fully infected and becomes a blob of metal. In "Deadpool Pulp" Cable is a US military General who hires Wade Wilson to steal back a nuclear briefcase. In "Marvel Zombies" he helped Forge create artificial limbs for Black Panther, who's limbs were eaten by a zombie Hank Pym. In the fantasy-inspired "Wolverine: Rahne of Terra" Cable is known as The Mage, and he wields a crossbow and a staff made from the body of the alien mutant Warlock. In The Ultimate Universe, Cable is actually the future version of Wolverine who comes back in time to train Professor X in preparation for Apocalypse's appearance.

7. Artist Alex Ross has admitted to hating Cable's design. He felt that Rob Liefeld's character "looked like they just threw up everything on the character". Writer Mark Waid asked Alex Ross to create the character Magog based off the character design aspects Ross hated most. When creating Magog, Ross used Cable and Shatterstar's helmet and claimed the helmet just made the design one his favorites of the book.

8. Cable's middle name is Charles, named after Scott's adopted father Charles Xavier. Rob Liefeld created Cable by the direction of Louise Simonson to be a "man of action" to be the opposite of Charles Xavier and lead The New Mutants after him. Rob named the character Cable, but editor Bob Harris suggested the name Quinn and Louise thought of Commander X. One of Cable's solo series was titled "Soldier X".

9. Cable once had a wife in the future named Jenskot, but she was killed by a grenade. His second wife was named Hope. When Cable raised the "Mutant Messiah" he had been in a relationship with Hope and married her. She was killed fighting robotic insects and protecting the child. In her memory, Cable named the child Hope. Cable has also had romantic relationships with Domino, Psylocke, and Storm.

10. Cable once traveled the time-stream in an entity named Ship, a transforming, metal-bodied, artificial intelligence created by The Celestials to imitate humans.

11. In an event where Cable battles The Avengers, Cable defeated Iron Man, Captain America, The Falcon, and Red Hulk. After this event, Cable is hit with Hope's Phoenix Force which cured him of his Techno-Organic Virus. This gave him his original flesh and the ability to see multiple timelines. This eventually wore off.

12. Mister Sinister orchestrated the events of Cable's life. He created the clone Madelyn Pryor to fall in love with Scott Summers because of Scott's powerful X-Genes. He planned on Apocalypse infecting the baby and having the child sent to the future. Mister Sinister did all of this in an effort to create a mutant who could kill Apocalypse.

Panel Biter Podcasts 5/17/18

Comic Buffet Mother's Day Special "Supersons: The Parent Trap"

https://drive.google.com/open?id=12BPkGD3c4eaGTOu1itsn5CXYj4a4O-Ji

Comic Buffet/Second Serving "Deadpool: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly"

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jLLnl1pU8jLR9xJKxNJ3BicnHDfr6Oup

The Weekly Flip Vol. 2 #7 "David Only Cares About Tacakka"

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1w6svlo1yIYNl5h1YttKKNkGZpaGtc5Ek

The After Party #4 "Gotta Catch Em' All"

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wMNy9rLWd2be84LHmB7ZrRqR0f4RdlDD

West Coast Represent

California heroes, we're forgettable. Last minute victories, we got them on lock. Solo books so dull we'll skip your pull list. Ooh oh ooh oh oh ooh! So if Marvel is really renumbering The Earth's Mightiest Heroes again with some Jason Aaron goodness, why can't we have some fun pitching a companion series called...

For this issue of "Raffi's Roster" I'm taking an Avengers team commonly met with laughs and confusion and making it the slice-of-life/superhero action romp it was always meant to be! With old members, new members, and some faces from different places! Let's pitch ourselves a West Coast Avengers series!

The Roster

The main Avengers usually consist of Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and The Hulk (or at least variations on those four), but our WC Avengers are rocking a different fantastic foursome. Hawkeye is the one who suggests they form a new team, mainly because he's lonely as hell. After killing Bruce Banner in "Civil War II" Clint Barton isn't the most-liked hero in the community. Since he founded the original team, he thinks bringing it back may help him recover his hero stripes. And yes, he's wearing his goddamn purple costume again. Because only Luke Cage can rock a T-shirt and sunglasses. His ex-wife Bobbi Morse/Mockingbird is the diet Black Widow of the team, and needless to say things are awkward between them. A running thing in the series would be their hesitation with each other, their grudges with each other, and the uncertainty on whether they should try again. Wonder Man hasn't been superhero-ing recently, he's a former actor and recent PR manager so he isn't on the team to punch people. It takes some dangerous situations to get him to use his energy-based powers again. Tigra has been a actress, a cop, a model, and is currently a single mom and a widower. Her son Matthew is about five years old and shares her furry exterior. She and Wonder Man seem to have "something" going on, but it's not fully explained until later in the series. However, she is grateful to raise her son around her good friends. Also she could rip your head off. Don't forget. Falcon is the de-facto leader of the WCA by the request of Hawkeye. Falcon led the last Avengers roster as Captain America and that time as Cap gave Falcon a real chance to-wait for it-spread his wings. Mantis would crash on Earth after escaping the alien villains of our first arc and go through a type of genetic metamorphosis leaving her looking like her movie counterpart. Why? I like that version. She is a mother like Tigra, but was separated from her child so being around Matt would give Mantis some strong feels. Finally, there is the new Whizzer. I wrote a thing on him recently. Basically Robert Coleman was a 30-something year old, overweight superhero fanboy living in his mom's basement. The night he finally went out was the night some aliens sprayed him with Terrigen Mist resulting in him gaining his Inhuman power of super-speed. Inspired by the Golden Age hero, Rob dubs himself Whizzer and is invited onto the team after he helps defeat the aliens. A dream come true.

The Plan

Similar to my "Heroes For Hire" team-pitch, a lot of this is The Avengers being involved in the community. They would be based out of California, they'd help police battle organized crime, clean up the streets, talk to civilians. Remind people that The Avengers are people too. You know, since the real Avengers are busy saving the world. The book would also heavily feature drama and real life situations. Like, will Clint and Bobbi hook up again? Are Simon (Wonder Man) and Greer (Tigra) hooking up as friends or dating or what? And how is Falcon reacting to people's opinions on whether or not him being Cap was a good thing or a bad thing? Mantis could be bitter with Tigra because Tigra isn't giving Matt enough attention, leading to both characters learning from their mistakes. Spider-Man could call Bobbi and make things harder for Clint (Peter and Bobbi banged). Whizzer is full of confidence issues and gets his hero fantasies crushed when he fails to save someone's life. He wants to quit and hide, but his new friends help him move on from it. Whizzer could be really into Mantis, but it's awkward because she can sense his emotions. Simon tries handling PR, but people are so critical of this "team of C-Listers" and Mantis and Whizzer can't handle the paparazzi. And most of these characters are human so they can get into comas or break an arm or get shot. It's all just the ballade of superheroes who didn't get their due and deserve some time to evolve and become better. If The Avengers are Earth's Mightiest Heroes, The West Coast Avengers are Earth's Mightiest Roommates.

The Threat

The first arc would be about these five Kree soldiers chasing Mantis to Earth. They're chemicals triggered her metamorphosis and their Terrigen Mist gave Whizzer his powers. They are led by Yorrick The Survivor, a mutated Kree who saved these five other mutant Kree from death and experimentation. Basically, if a Kree alien is imperfect they are hunted and killed, so Yorrick and his team are trying to piss off everybody in the galaxy hoping someone will destroy The Kree. So the WCA assemble to battle "The Survivors". The Survivors are beaten (miraculously) and taken by Captain Marvel who is glad to see Hawkeye "doing his job again". Following this the team sets up shop at an old Avengers Compound, but quickly learn they are being targeted by somebody. This somebody digs up a secret military program called "Project Rhodes" which summons three War Machine drones to attack the team. This somebody hires Taskmaster, reprograms The Super-Adaptiod, and gives Black Knight's cursed sword The Ebony Blade to some serial killer. With all these events being sprung the US government sends US Agent to spy on the WCA, making him more of a problem than an ally. We eventually learn all these occurrences were caused by an old woman named Betty Dean, Namor The Sub-Mariner's love interest from the 50's. She's old and has retirement money to waste, so when she saw Hawkeye-the man who killed one of his own-was drumming up a team of celebrities and aliens and "shield-swipers" she used her money and resources to ruin their lives. She's arrested and the WCA can't decide if they feel relieved or sympathetic for the bored, angry old woman.

The Point

To have fun? Can that be The Point? See, my problem with Avengers comics now is that they're so focused on saving the Earth and raising the stakes and having events and changing up the team, they leave no room for character stuff. Like, in Mark Waid's Avengers he hinted that Sam Wilson and Jane Foster might be interested in each other and it went nowhere because he didn't have time. Back when Bendis was writing New Avengers he had this whole arc about some SHIELD division enslaving cavemen in the Savage Land and it went nowhere. If a writer is trying to tell a story, a story involving your A-List superhero team, it's best not to bog that story down with events or renumbers or team shake-ups. Let the writer write and then you can mess up their flow. I have a feeling Jason Aaron's Avengers is going to suffer the same problems, so all I want is another Avengers book that focuses on character interactions and development. A book where a complete story can be told and it can influence the next story and so on. I want an Avengers comic that feels like a comic and not just a trailer for the next big thing. And a title like this-under Nick Spencer as writer and Stacey Lee on art-can be a book about people and not sales.

Thanks for reading.

The Whizzer of Odd

So if the MCU Valkyrie and the MCU Nick Fury and Phil Coulson and his SHIELD Agents can be adapted into the comics, can the MCU Whizzer come along too?

Spoilers for "Jessica Jones" Season Two, I guess. At least I'm not spoiling "Infinity War", right? In episode two of season two Jessica meets this overweight weirdo named Robert Coleman who claims to have superpowers and an evil corporation tailing him. He ends up dying and Jess discovers the super-speed powers he got are connected to the source of her powers. Despite his brief appearance, this version of The Whizzer left a big impression on me. But before I talk about that, exactly who is The Whizzer?

The Whizzer began as a 1940's superhero fighting in WWII alongside guys like Captain America and Namor The Sub-Mariner. Whizzer got his powers from a blood transfusion with a mongoose, this gave him super-speed. Not quite as fast as Quicksilver, but faster than Cap or Black Panther. Whizzer had been a member of several Golden Age teams, had a battle with depression and alcohol, but eventually married former teammate Miss America and had a son. His son became the villain Nuklo, but you know how it is. Whizzer had been an Avenger for a while too, once believing Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch to be his own children. He was wrong, of course. Whizzer had two heart attacks, tried to retire, and died from a third heart attack during a fight. There have been three other Whizzers, but each of them were created as Marvel versions of DC Comics' Flash and lacked the unique aspects of the original.

The version of Whizzer in "Jessica Jones" got experimented on, but bares little resemblance to Robert Frank outside of his color scheme, the name choice, and Rob Coleman having a pet mongoose named Emil. So why do I want this lesser character to be in the comics? Well, we don't have a lot of speedsters. There are the rip-off Flashes I mentioned and there's Quicksilver, but there is something hilarious about a fat guy with super speed. Plus, he's a glasses-wearing nerd who has a pet mongoose. He's weird and quirky and there's some personality in there. I'm not just here too laugh at Coleman, either. Name an overweight superhero. I'll wait. I wrote an entire article on how plus-sized people don't have a superhero to relate to the same way different races, genders, and sexualities do. I'm not the kind of person who insists every shape, shade, and type of person must have a superhero exactly like them. I love Nightwing and I'm not a circus orphan with abs. But I think it shows a level of humanity and understanding to have your superhero be a fat guy. Why does every superhero have to be a body building supermodel? Why can't we have an indulgent, socially awkward superhero with a silly name and an ironic superpower?

It wouldn't be hard to rewrite the guy into the comics. Maybe he's an Inhuman who lives in his mother's basement. He has problems socializing and making friends. He has no job or girlfriend, but his passion is superheroes. The costumes, the powers, the inspiration! That's why when he comes out his Terrigen Mist cocoon with super-speed he names himself after a superhero who has already passed! A superhero with a lot of history and a one-of-a-kind color scheme. He doesn't have a costume, but he has some color appropriate clothing. And the pet mongoose thing could come later. Oh, and he can name the mongoose Frank in honor of the OG Whizzer.

I'm working on a Raffi's Roster with this character in it so I can talk more about him there, but my overall point here is that while he wasn't as popular as Valkyrie or Coulson, Whizzer was still a fun, refreshing nod to an older age of Marvel Comics. He's just the right blend of reference and realism that helps give Marvel it's soul. And if the last two years have shown anything from Marvel Comics, they could use a little more soul.

Thanks for reading!

Did you read "Ricky Ticky Tavi" in school? I know I did! I remember none of it.

Steel Facts

Are you a fan of John Henry Irons? Well, metal up! We got One Dozen Steel Facts!

1. John Henry Irons was created in 1993 in "The Adventures of Superman #500" and was created as one of four replacements for Superman following "The Death of Superman". After Doomsday killed Superman, John Henry Irons created an armored suit to replicate Superman's powers, donned his symbol, and became Steel, protector of Metropolis. From there he became the central character of the "Man of Steel" series where he fought gang violence.

2. John's name is inspired by John Henry, an African American Folk Hero. He was described as a steel-driving man who used a hammer and a drill to dig through stone. John Henry's proficiency wound up getting him into a digging competition with a steam-powered hammer. He miraculously won the contest, but died of exhaustion with his hammer in hand.

3. John began as a weapon engineer for AmerTek Industries. After building a weapon that caused the death of innocent people, he faked his death to escape his company's grip over his inventions. AmerTek secretly released John's weapon designs to gangs in Metropolis, so Steel waged a one man war on his former company. During that period, Steel removed the "S" from his chest as he felt he was going outside the law to battle AmerTek.

4. Between Steel, The Eradicator, Superboy, and Cyborg Superman, Lois Lane was less skeptical of Steel than the others replacement Supermen. Currently, John is dating Superman's high school sweetheart Lana Lang/Superwoman. Steel knows Superman's secret identity, he has access to and has helped rebuild The Fortress of Solitude.

5. John's sister-in-law has five kids. Two of which were foster children. They were taken by child protective services after Steel's identity was revealed to the public and his family home was burnt down. John's brother Clay was a hitman who went by the name "Crash" and turned himself into the police so that his daughter Natasha could get some of his blood for a much needed blood transfusion.

6. Darkseid once created a suit of armor called The Entropy Aegis, crafted from Apokolips technology and the shell of the Imperiex, a villain with the power to create big bangs and destroy universes. This suit was supposed to trap Superman, but Steel donned the armor instead. He could use it to grow giant, form energy wings, travel through space and time, and reduce enemies to composite elements with an energy beam. Steel became increasingly dependent on it until Superman freed him.

7. Following the cancellation of his solo series, Steel was added to The Justice League roster at the request of Batman who wanted more intelligent members on the team. He was a critical player in the battles against Queen Bee and Prometheus. He led The Justice League during a time when the main team was displaced in time, his reserve team consisted of Plastic Man, Huntress, Big Barda, and Zauriel The Angel.

8. In "DC: The New Frontier" John Wilson dons a black hood tied with a noose, a sledgehammer, and the name John Henry as he avenges his family after they were murdered by the KKK. In "Kingdom Come" Steel joins Batman's faction against the totalitarian Superman, now wearing an armor with Batman's ears, symbol, and cape, as well as a bat-shaped hammer. In "Injustice" John died when Joker nuked Metropolis, but his niece Natasha became Steel and claims her "S" symbol isn't Superman's, it's Steel's. In "Steel: Crucible of Freedom" John is depicted as a slave during the Civil War. He creates suits of armor for his master who fights for The Confederacy, but dons one himself after his son and other slave children drowned to death due to their master's negligence. He leads the slaves to revolt against the masters, and goes on to become the John Henry from folktale legends. 

9. Steel's armor gives him flight, durability, and super strength. He can also fire rivets from his gauntlets and hammer. The hammer is the consistent part of Steel's armory, as it was once a simple bludgeoning weapon Steel has upgraded the hammer with an on-board navigational system and made it capable of independent flight. He also invented a device that could teleport the suit over him and off of him, he later evolved this tech to teleport himself completely. Lex Luthor once altered John's DNA against his will, this caused John's body to be composed of stainless steel. John could form a suit over himself, produce metal from his body, and heat metal to the point of melting.

10. After his teenage niece Natasha Irons created her own armor to help Superman release John from the Entropy Aegis, John retired and gave the Steel mantle to her. As Steel, Nat once saved Superman's life with Supergirl/Cir-El and Traci 13. Natasha wanted to join The Teen Titans, but John forbid her from going to try-outs so she could help clean debris in Metropolis. She refuses and John took the armor back. Nat would go on to get her DNA altered and become Starlight, capable of super strength, flight, and solid light construction, and following that her power's devolved and she became Vaporlock with the power to turn into mist. Recently, she has returned to being Steel and it has been established that she is dating Traci 13 and will become a member of Nightwing's Titans.

11. In "Superman vs The Terminator: Death to The Future" Superman is thrown to a future ruled by Skynet. There he meets an older version of John Henry Irons who retains his armor and hammer and has been helping John Conner and The Resistance battle Skynet. In "JLA/Avengers" Steel created a battery pack that allowed Wally West/The Flash to stay in The Marvel Comics Universe by absorbing Speed Force energy, as the Marvel Universe does not have a Speed Force.

12. Steel fought Atlas once and was left comatose. After he recovered he fought Atlas again, and won. He also temporarily overpowered Doomsday using nano-machines. He and Batgirl once deprogrammed a planet-destroying alien weapon with minutes to spare.

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Are you a hammer person?

Panel Biter Podcasts 5/11/18

The Weekly Flip #2.6

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The After Party #3

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The Comic Buffet "Old Man Logan: Past Lives"

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Alphabet X

What if Professor X wrote the Alphabet?

A is for Angel, he's handsome and rich

B is for Banshee, who screams like a bitch

C is for Cyclops, he was the first of us all

D is for Deadpool, who we never bother to call.

E is for Emma, who's skin is diamond bright

F is for Forge, he's fixing our jet every night

G is for Gambit, le seul et unique

H is for Hank. Hey, he's a Beast! Not a freak!

I is for Iceman, he's still got a warm core

J is for Juggernaut, I prefer Colossus more

K is for Kitty, always phasing through the door

And L is for Lockheed, the dragon we adore!

M is for Magneto, who always bends his way out

N is for Nightcrawler, always "Bamfing" about

O is for Orono, our Goddess of Storms

P is for Phoenix, Jean Grey is reborn!

Q is for Quinten, the rebellious young pisser

R is for Rogue, you'll be sorry if you kiss her

S is for Sunfire, stubborn as inferno

T is for Thunderbird, who died on his first rodeo...

U is for Uncanny, now that's a title that sticks

V is for Victor, avoid Sabretooth's tricks

W is for Wolverine, he's sells the issues

X is for X-23, who'll tear through you like tissues.

Y is for Yellow, gotta love the classics

Z is for Zeitgeist, he vomits deadly acids

The X-Men protect all people and never discriminate

Because a world full of borders, is a world built on hate.

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Sub-Mariner Facts

Are you a fan of The King of Atlantis? Well, we got One Dozen Namor The Sub-Mariner Facts!

1. Namor is credited as the first Marvel Comic's character created. He first appeared in "Marvel Comics #1" in 1940. The issue was published by Funnies Inc., a client of Timely Comics which would evolve into Marvel Comics in the 1960's.

2. Despite his arrogant attitude, Namor has featured on an impressive amount of teams. With Captain America and the original Human Torch he formed The Invaders in WWII, as well as The All-Winners Squad. He has been an Avenger, and a founding member of The Defenders with Silver Surfer and The Hulk. He was made a member of The X-Men in 2011, narratively he was rewritten to be a mutant, but internally it was so he could be involved in "Avengers vs X-Men". Namor was also a member of Marvel's Illuminati alongside Black Bolt, Mister Fantastic, Professor X, Doctor Strange, and Iron Man. He was also part of Norman Osborn's Illuminati known as The Cabal during Osborn's ownership of SHIELD.

3. During "Avengers vs X-Men", Namor held 1/5's of The Phoenix Force and helped Cyclops take over the world. During this time he waged war on Wakanda, a grudge Black Panther has with him still today.

4. Namor is often associated with The Fantastic Four and has pursued a relationship with Susan Storm Richards/The Invisible Woman for many years, but has always been spurned due to her commitment to Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic. Sue even took over Atlantas once after he kidnapped her.

5. Namor began as an anti-hero, attacking mankind in rebellion against pollution and invasion of the seas. He has since retained his dubious nature, participating in saving the world, but not helping humans directly. Namor himself is half-human and half-Atlantean, making him the only white-skinned Atlantean as the pure ones are blue-skinned.

6. Namor's battle cry is "Imperious Rex". "Imperious" means assuming power or authority without justification, and it called arrogant and domineering. And "Rex" in Latin means "King". So, when Namor yells "Imperious Rex" he is claiming being King of Atlantis gives him power and authority without question. Namor's name-in Atlantean-translates to "Avenging Son".

7. Namor's family includes his cousin Dorma who he was once arranged to be his wife before her death, his other cousin (not by blood)  Namora who also has a romantic relationship with him, and a clone of Namor's mother named Namorita who had become a member of The New Avengers. Faira Sar Namora/Water Snake was another member of The New Warriors formally being a member of Namora's Handmaiden Warriors. Namor was also briefly married to Marrina Smallwood from the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight. After Emma Frost left Scott Summer/Cyclops, she began a sexual relationship with Namor who had recently joined The X-Men.

8. The newest version of The Squadron Supreme-heroes based on The Justice League-destroyed Atlantis and killed Namor after deeming them a threat to the world. By the end of that series a time-travel mishap undoes Atlantis' destruction and Namor's death. At the time, The Squad did not have an Aquaman allegorical character.

9. From his Atlantean roots Namor has incredible strength, speed, and invulnerability enough to battle the likes of The Hulk and Thor. Namor's mutation takes the form of small wings on his ankles that allow him to fly. While other characters like Iron Man and The Punisher change ages based on the year of the current series, Namor is well-over 90 years old and does not show it physically. Namor has a condition where too much exposure to oxygen can cause manic mood swings, but in the ocean he is in complete control. In the Ultimate Universe, he used a magic trident to form Poseidon out of the ocean to attack New York.

10. Using pirate treasure found on the ocean floor, Namor started up his own company that was committed to protecting and restoring Earth's environment which has been rotted by so many corporations over the years. Her named the company Oracle Inc., named after his human father's ship "The Oracle".

11. Namor is the first comic book character with the ability to fly, because Superman couldn't fly until  his cartoons in 1941, a year after Namor's creation.

12. In the 90's "Marvel vs DC" miniseries event by both publishers, Namor was set to battle Aquaman. Aquaman wins the fight by making a whale to fall on Namor.

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Which team should Namor stay on?

The Problem With The Marvel Cinematic Universe

Man, "Infinity War" was so good! And we're gonna get The Fantastic Four and The X-Men and maybe Marvel has to share Spider-Man with Sony, but that's okay! Things are going so well, Marvel Studios is perfect! Well, almost perfect.

After Sony agreed to share Spider-Man and Disney bought Fox and it's superheroes, I thought to myself that the MCU was nearing perfection. While Warner Bros owns DC Comics and has all it's pieces on the table, Marvel made it's success by doing movies about relatively B-List characters because they couldn't use their popular ones. Instead of an MCU Spider-Man we got Iron Man, instead of MCU X-Men, we had The Guardians of The Galaxy, and in the end that worked out great as writers and directors made people care about these characters, popularize them, and further insert them into the cultural zeitgeist. Oh, first time I used that word. But The MCU isn't perfect. And this doesn't come down to my opinions about a certain character or movie, it comes down to a severed connection that we can't ignore.

Currently, The Agents of SHIELD are dealing with an alien invasion. The reason you might not know that is because these aliens aren't from the Marvel movies and are not mentioned in the movies. The Avengers, after ten long years, are still unaware that Phil Coulson is alive. When Iron Man went to recruit a superpowered person in New York, it wasn't Daredevil or Jessica Jones, it was Spider-Man. Doctor Strange probably doesn't even know Ghost Rider exists. With newer shows like "Cloak & Dagger", "The Runaways" and "The New Warriors" gracing our TV screens, one has to wonder when these small-screen heroes are going to step to the big leagues. After all, Luke Cage was an Avenger, Iron Fist has fought alongside Doctor Strange, Hawkeye was married to Mockingbird. So when are any of those things going to happen? Look, I don't expect Iron Man to appear in "Luke Cage" season two or for Mockingbird to show up in the next Marvel movie as Hawkeye's clingy ex-girlfriend, just as I don't expect anything from the comics to be translated to film perfectly. However, when the whole motto of your cinematic universe is "it's all connected" and it isn't, you might have some screws you want to tighten.

"The Avengers" worked because it brought together four different superheroes from their four different films and said "they all exist in the same world". And no other studio has done that. At least, not to this scale. Now, Universal Studios wants a monster-themed cinematic universe, now Hasbro wants a cinematic universe with GI Joe and Transformers. Fox tried it, Sony tried it, hell, even M. Night Shyamalan did a sequel to "Unbreakable" called "Split" SEVENTEEN years after the first film was released! And in 2019 he's doing a third one where Split and Glass fight Unbreakable! You can't tell me he planned on doing that twelve years before The Avengers was a thing.

Marvel Studios is all about the "team-up" idea. Hulk was in Thor 3, Iron Man in Spider-Man's film, "Captain America: Civil War" was just "Avengers 2: Let's Try That Again". And "Infinity War" takes that world bridging concept to the next level. Thor and The Guardians, Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, even small stuff like Okoye teaming up with Black Widow. But for as open as the MCU is, the Netflix and TV shows are treated as "additional content". They aren't treated with the same respect and magnitude as the films. And look, between "Iron Fist" and "Inhumans" I get it. I get why people want to skip that stuff. But just because those shows don't have as many viewers as the films doesn't mean you can't acknowledge them. Just have a scene in "Spider-Man 2: That Venom Movie Will Suck" where Spidey is swinging around at night and he swings by Daredevil. Spidey yells "Hi, Daredevil" and Daredevil says "Hey". And that's it. Just have Doctor Strange mention Kun-Lun. Just have Coulson send Tony Stark a voicemail. Maybe Steve Rogers needs someone found and he hires "an alcoholic detective" to find them. It's that easy.

Jeph Loeb has been the Executive Vice President and Head of Television at Marvel Television since 2010 and he has been given the job of putting characters on TV. And I like the guy's work. The Marvel Color Series, "Batman: The Long Halloween", "Superman/Batman", "Fallen Son", he's done great work. But I just wish he had more push and more motivation to make something happen with Kevin Feige and the movie directors. Or, at the least, I wish Feige would remind The Russo Brothers and Ryan Coogler and whoever else they got right now that there are more Marvel characters they can use. Imagine how stoked Charlie Cox would be to get a one minute cameo in a Spider-Man movie. Imagine how stoked The Russo Brothers would be if they could have Luke Cage help Thor and Hulk fight Thanos or something! And imagine how stoked the fans would be if they saw Phil Coulson reunite with the original Avengers. It works for the actors, it works for the directors, and it works for the fans.

At the end of the day, this is film culture and television culture we're talking about here. Two industries that depend on each other, but hate to mix. The TV people don't want to ride off the success of the films, and the film people don't want to stoop to using daytime television content in their big summer blockbusters. Until the MCU grows stale and they need a new element to their universe to spice things up, they don't need Daredevil or The Punisher or any one else from TV. And by the time all the casual Marvel Fans actually drop out it will be too late and the characters we've grown with on TV will be too old, too busy, or too irrelevant to bring Luke Cage into Black Panther 3 or The Punisher into X-Men 2. Ten years from now, that "Break Glass In Case of Boredom" will be covered in so much dust even Stormbreaker won't dust it off.

Thanks for reading.

Put the first two episodes of "Inhumans" in theaters they said, it'll work out great they said.