Honestly, if it doesn't match what I already own then it won't nestle well with the rest of the silverware and soon the whole drawer is all higgily-piggily. Who needs that kind of nightmare?




Ah yes... I actually was using that one to draw a lot of those various storylines together. Squibb was going to come to Vizh for asylum, Joan Henry had become Vizh's bodyguard, Odoona his personal assistant, Akiko Masamune was exploiting his ties with her and the Caphans to work out a trade with Caph, various fallen houses of Caph wanted him dead...

It probably would have made "Heart of Darkness" look straightforward and simple by comparison.




Wow... that's... something. It reminds me of all of those old articles written by people who grew up watching "Superfriends" and mocked television executives of the time for thinking "Batman and Superman taking on the Legion of Doom is okay, but we really need to center the show around teenagers like Wendy, Marvin and their dog... that's what the youth really want to watch!"

I was, of course, greatly looking forward to the adding of the Scarlet Witch to "A:EMH" and seeing how they played things with the Vision. Now I'll be pinning my hopes on the films... I have seen the directors of "Civil War" and the "Infinity War" films say that the latter will initially focus on the characters that haven't had solo movies, which is good news. I suspect Civil War and Thor:Ragnarok are going to sideline Cap, Iron Man, Thor and Hulk anyway, letting them have a big comeback to take down Thanos is Infinity War Part 2.

Vizh and Wanda will likely get a chance to shine, at least somewhat. Hopefully Vizh isn't completely taken out when Thanos comes for the Infinity Stone in his head. (I fully expect an "Ant-man repairs Vision from the inside" sequence. Why skip that opportunity?)

On a tangent, I hear that Mantis has been added to the cast for the next Guardians of the Galaxy film. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around how much things have changed since the beginnings of this board, that characters like the Vision, the Scarlet Witch and even Mantis are in major motion pictures.




I was always a bit miffed that Super Hero Squad used just about every character in the Marvel Universe *except* the Vision.

I've only seen maybe parts of 2 episodes of the newer Avengers cartoon, and it wasn't overly interesting although what I saw wasn't as bad as the examples you cited. I had heard that in designing the show they really wanted to get away from continuity, subplots and all the things that make cartoons interesting from my point of view though.




Now that you mention it, I haven't ever had any vampire problems. What if there already is a sun deity in the family? What if I'm it?
This is suddenly a lot of pressure.




It would be a far more welcome reunion letter to get in the mail, honestly. "Hey, a chance to reconnect with people I voluntarily hung out with!"




Lisa shares my burn out, so I mostly get understanding from that side. Still, I'll see what I can do.

Thanks for the links to much of the Princess and the Great North Star, by the way!




I'm more likely to do fallout from it/reaction to it than cover it myself.




I saw some of your exchanges on the possibility of adapting the Caphans. I would say not to bother as they weren't all that central to that storyline as a whole, but then I think of the book cover possibilities...