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I can certainly relate to the topic at hand, as far as recent MCU entries are concerned. My mom loves the “Ant-Man” movies and whenever they’re on TBS, we’ll plunk down and watch them for a bit. The first one is an all-time favorite, the second one less so but still not too bad. “Quantumania,” unfortunately, is most assuredly a no-go. The Quantum Realm business in “Ant-Man 2” was a challenge to Mom’s senses (apart from the core story of Michelle Pheiffer trying to reconnect with Michael Douglas), and the microverse being basically the entirety of “Ant-Man 3” was a real deal-breaker all around. The Council of Kangs concept absolutely sucks in live-action, and Corey Stoll returning as Darren Cross sounded wonderful at first (him in “Ant-Man 1” is right up there with Justin Hammer in “Iron Man 2” or David Cross in the “Alvin & the Chipmunks” series in terms of goofy villain performances that turn stealing thunder into a legit art form), until we saw it was just his face stuck on an awful CGI frame. (Incidentally, I know that MODOK has been flanderized into an impotent comedy character for decades now in the comics, but this MCU version makes that one look like Shakespeare.) Not to mention having to lean over and whisper quick explanations of confusing bits of lore to Mom every few minutes proved a bit too disruptive for our mutual liking. So that pretty much killed our enthusiasm for going to Marvel movies for a bit, until “Fantastic Four: First Steps” made it fun again. (By the way, I do highly recommend “Look out for the Little Guy,” Scott Lang’s in-universe memoir about previous super-antics that had an IRL printing around the same time part 3 was in theaters. Scott’s down-to-earth relationship with Cassie is easily the best part of these films, and the book is essentially a long reflection on that, as well as getting quick asides of his reaction to other film plots from Phase 3 & 4. Him nearly busting a nut trying to describe anything from “Eternals” is sheer bliss!)
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Okay, just watched the vid, this has sorta been a problem with Marvel Comics for most of the 2020s, it feels like to me. I tried reading some titles consistently for about two years early on, but I gave up after it became too unwieldy. I keep up with current developments via Bleeding Cool because I sure as heck want to save my bucks for bigger collections and omnibi of proven content.
Let me try hashing out the plot of my favorite book from that brief sojourn and see how it goes. “So Spider-Man is investigating the Beyond Corporation, a thing from a book called ‘Nextwave’ that isn’t in continuity until it is, depends on what the writer wants to do. They mostly do mad science and messing with some of Spidey’s C-list baddies, it’s impossible for me to explain it now, but it looks real neat at least. Also, Ben Reilly was there for a bit, you remember, Peter’s clone from 20 years ago? Well, he was hypnotized by Beyond and forgot just about everyone from his former life, then he turned back into clone goop, then got rebuilt into this void monster, so basically a heel turn into a downer villain, and I bet they could’ve done some neat stuff with him if Zeb Wells wasn’t obsessed with this Paul guy.” I’m surprised by how straightforward that turned out. I remember a lot of readers online complaining that it was turning them off the book. I shudder to think how anyone jumping on now deals with the garbage of current continuity.
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