“He understands his circumstances but it doesn’t make him feel less responsible. The horror lies in feeling helpless. It’s as you wake up from a nightmare, and you have that brief moment of relief as you understand you were just dreaming, but then you realize it actually happened. You just couldn’t stop it.”
The comic you like came out this week. It came out last week. It will come out the week after. It won’t be seen again for another 3 months.
Everything is presented as status quo shattering and game changing. Game changing and status quo shattering IS the Status Quo.
It Is a Big Deal that Captain Marvel is a woman now. You remember the last Captain Marvel was a woman. No one else does.
You read a comic you purchased today. It feels like it already happened. You don’t have this comic, do you?
Those two characters hate each other but are best friends. Everyone wants them to kiss. What is real? What isn’t?
You read your favorite comic. Nothing happens. But everything happens as well.
Written by Brian Michael Bendis is on every issue cover. You can’t remember a time a book you read wasn’t by Brian, Michael, or Bendis.
You read a comic you purchased today. It feels like it already happened. You don’t have this comic, do you?
That issue you’ve been looking forward to for the past three months finally came out. You read it. Nothing is the same. You don’t remember this world. Did this comic exist three months ago? Your memory is failing.
A prominent gay superhero gets married. You’ve never heard of their spouse-to-be. Who are they? Have they appeared in a comic before?
You pick up Avengers #1. You picked up an Avengers #1 last week. There is another next month. Half of your Marvel collection are #1s. Does the number two exist in the Marvel Universe?
You read a comic you purchased today. It feels like it already happened. You don’t have this comic, do you?
Wolverine is on every cover. So is Deadpool. It’s gritty but there’s a 4th wall shattering pop culture reference involving chimichangas and Canada indirectly.
Does anything exist outside of New York?
Who the hell is Bucky?
Your comic issue has a decimal. Is it a full comic? Where does X-Force Vol 4 #1.INH.NOW.ULT.1 compared to X-Force Vol 4 #1.NOW.1.ULT.
Do Fractions even exist in the Marvel Universe anymore?
What’s a Spider-Gwen?
You think you see Uncle Ben. He is a clone. Clones are all the rage.
#1.NOW.ULT.INH.1? How do numbers work in the Marvel Universe
You heard about this book a year ago by your favorite up and coming writer but now He’s Brian Michael Bendis. Do all writers end up merging with Brian Michael Bendis?
You see a Marvel Movie. It’s your favorite. The next one will be your favorite too. And the one after that.
You’ve heard of other comics by other companies. You don’t read them. They don’t have Marvel on the cover. But you hear rumblings of a Bat-Man. Who gets bitten by a radioactive bat?
This list relaunches with the same creative team. It relaunches again next month.
You are now obsessed with Bucky.
Every superhero is now named Gwen. There is a Spider-Gwen, a Gwenpool, Captain Gwenmerica, Iron Gwen, The Ingwenible Hulk. Bucky Gwen.
You can’t wait for the next Unbeatable Squirrel-Gwen #1
Peter Parker: -on meeting Loki, offers his hand- Hi, I’m Peter!
Loki: -shakes his hand- Loki of Asgard.
Peter: Aren’t you like…a bad guy?
Loki: It varies from moment to moment.
Peter: So like…on a scale of one to ten, ten being the worst evil imaginable, like…killing puppies, and one being I’ll spit on your hotdog…where are you right now?
Loki: …maybe a three?
Peter: Cool. Lemme know if it gets above a six.
Loki: -thinking- I like him.
It had been a joke, a flippant line, but somehow, Loki found himself taking the youth up on it.
It was hard living around these heroic Avengers, hard trying to stay close to Thor. And when he felt his need for mischief rise too high, when he felt exasperation with these Midgardians turn too close to spite, he would casually say “Six.” to the young man, or sometimes “Seven.”
And Peter would spend the rest of his day with Loki. He would badger him with questions about magic, or drag him across his beloved city to see its entertainments, or take him along stopping petty crimes. He grounded Loki to the here and now, and distracted him from the churning, jagged shards of ice in his mind.
WE NEED LOKI AND PETER FICS
Yeah, the people who write the comics agree with you
imagine if someone really pissed Loki off and he turns to Peter and just “IT’s A TEN, CHILD”
knitting in the dark 