Bob Iger is beginning to question the Marvel method

[Otherbrother]

@MadLibrarian

I’m pretty sure the reason we didn’t see our Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman beating up the Chitauri was because of rights/use conflicts (I could easily imagine a big Spidey-web snagging a dozen of those flying Chitauri go-cycles.)

In reality, yes. But the MCU has a good explanation too. That version of Peter Parker was still in High School during Captain America: Civil War which took place 4 years after the attack on New York. So within that universe he wouldn’t have even become Spider-Man yet.

[MadLibrarian]

I can dream…

[Otherbrother]

In my version of that dream 9/11 never happened and Spidey was able to catch bad guys with a web strung up between the twin towers, like that early trailer promised us:

SPIDER-MAN (2002) Original "Twin Towers" Teaser Trailer [HD]

[smulder]

@dnealy

both films performed well at the box office, making them hits with general audiences

… so what’s the problem

[smulder]

@blackanvil

edit: spelling

genre

“genera” is the plural of “genus”

[ficuswhisperer]

I got so burned out on the Marvel juggernaut after Endgame I just haven’t had much of an appetite to jump back into it. The only Phase 4 film I’ve seen is Shang Chi and I haven’t really had any interest in watching any of the other films or 500 spin-off TV shows. It’s all just too much.

[cepheus42]

WandaVision was really worth the time, it’s such an unusual and pretty excellent show (except for part of the ending that left me disgruntled). The Loki show was pretty fun, too. Beyond that, I feel you on this. Not much there I’ve seen that really impressed me beyond Shang-Chi.

[gatto]

i think ex machina is the book you’re looking for.

Ex Machina (comics)

Ex Machina focuses on story of civil engineer Mitchell Hundred, alternating between the past and the present. The plot is centred on Hundred’s current life as the mayor of New York City, with flashbacks to his prior life as “The Great Machine”, the world’s first and only super hero. Hundred has the ability to communicate directly with machines, which he used to prevent the fall of the second tower in the 9/11 attacks.

eta:

@cepheus42

The Loki show was pretty fun, too. Beyond that, I feel you on this

i second loki, and have to plug ms marvel. it was a joy to watch.

[oldstevo]

@evadrepus

Before the focus on the Summer Crossover That Changes Everything about 20 years ago, each comic hero largely stayed in their own area with slight overlaps.

Closer to 40 years ago. It’s all Jim Shooter’s fault, with the original Secret Wars.

[simonize]

Although a friend pointed out to me that Wandavision is less interesting if you didn’t grow up in North America exposed to endless re-runs of the TV shows that it satirized so very well.