25 November, 2020

Another day to go nowhere.

President Trump to Pardon Gen. Michael Flynn
November 25, 2020

Child Abuse? HBO Max Documentary Celebrates 4-Year-Old Boy's Transgender Identity
November 24, 2020

Democrat Mayor of Denver Boards Flight to Houston to Visit Family Minutes After He Reminds People Not to Travel For Thanksgiving
November 25, 2020

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Encourages Residents to Call Police on Neighbors Violating COVID Rules
November 23, 2020

□ [“Pennsylvania Judge Blocks State From Certifying Election Results"]

There seems to be starting to be a move here.  Finally, over three weeks after the "election."  I don't know why but I'm still split increasingly, that there's a plan underway to defeat the leftists from stealing the election and that it's over, they've taken it and can't be stopped.  As always, I think it would have been much smarter to stop them at the time, now they've had more weeks to fake votes and who can we turn to other than Democrat judges?

□ [“NOT Making Headlines: Las Vegas Oddsmakers STILL Not Paying Out for Biden Victory — Gamblers More Honest than Garbage Dump Media"]

There's also reports that Obama staffers are kicking out people Biden would pick for his administration.  I can believe that but doesn't it always happen?  I've always suspected one of the reasons Hillary gave up was because Obama agreed to hire her people.  It's not like he cared about that and Biden is probably along the same lines.  At least it's worth noting at another problem Democrats are facing against each other, but whether that'll lead to anything will probably be unknown forever.  It's the people who helped get Biden "elected" who suffer for what other unelected people demand for themselves.

□ [“Marvel Officially Cancel Dark Agnes, Daily Bugle, Morbius MIA No More"]

There seems to be a lot more titles on this list that are being cancelled.  ["Seems to be" because it's not clear and the website doesn't give any explanation.]  Only a few titles are even close to #10 and it seems like about half were being cancelled by #5.  What do they think they can do?

One of the titles is an adaptation of the last Star Wars movie, what brings that on?  Another one is a reprint of Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21, the marriage of Peter and MJ.  That one just boggles the mind that anyone would even think of it, who in their right minds would want it if they didn't already have one?  [I have mine, thank you.]  It was one of Jim Shooter's last decisions as Editor-in-Chief and basically showed why he was such a horrible leader.  It was an awful story which damaged the company's main character for no sensible reason other than an excuse for Jim Shooter to prove he was in charge.

Anyway, what's going on with these titles?  Why is Marvel running so many and dropping them so quickly?  It might be a response to DC's recent decisions but there's no way to know, nor a clue of what they're going to do next.

Because I feel like it, I'm also adding comments I made on a website on July 5, 2015 about Peter Parker marrying Mary Jane Watson.  For whatever reason, copy-and-paste has kept it in the original format so we'll see how it looks when I push "post."

Making MJ a supermodel for any length of time definitely reduces her character. I don't think it's demeaning so much as I don't think it's MJ as she's always been. She's hot and she knows it ["Face it tiger, you've hit the jackpot"] but there's five thousand other women like her in that section of Manhattan alone. Women far less attractive than MJ have to put up with far more unwanted advances from men before they turn 18. In this story, MJ is being given a Ferarri by someone who tells her to keep it because he's got another one. There are women who have to deal with men like that, and it is possible that MJ is one of those women, but if she is, she's not going to marry Peter Parker. Even at her best and noblest 'til death do us part' she isn't going to pick a freelance photographer who climbs up walls and could very easily leave her a widow without a pension, she's not insane. Or maybe she is insane, in which case Peter should have stayed the hell away from her to begin with. He wound up siding with the devil to give his decrepit aunt another six months in intensive care just so he could get out of that marriage; it wasn't a healthy relationship.

Basically I could go either way on whether or not Spider-Man should be married, and although MJ was definitely the best choice, he shouldn't have married the MJ that we were given here. If she's being flown to Paris by anybody other than a supervillain who will use her in his master plan for world dominance, she's wrong for Peter.

As for Peter's problems not revolving around his marriage, that's my point. He could have been whining and complaining just as easily to her if they were both single, all she did was sit there and respond. He did not treat her the same way, and her problems were usually idealized supermodel problems that often required a superhero to solve. At best it was defying the trope if she solved the problem herself anyway. MJ could have done that whether she was married or not.

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