Aquaman even says outright, early in the run, that the old league had basically no interpersonal drama and now this team had to re-learn how to work with each other, almost like you would see in a proper team book. It feels like the prototype for the beloved JLI run, and could use more appreciation.

Two of the same digits are incestuous. Any number with more than two digits it an ever-expanding polycule. Gender and sexuality change rapidly as numbers increase. Blissfully I fell asleep before I could figure out what prime numbers were.

It's kinda crazy to see Venom's origins as a barely-sapient space goo that lived in a vending machine and decided to become Spider-Man's pants to some kind of space antichrist figure. Eddie Brock's life has spiraled in so many directions, but he stands by his goop husband.

The one tangible effect is that the Black Suit takes control of Peter while he's asleep and makes him go out and fight crime, which means he's weaker and clumsy because he's tired all the time. He's tripping over himself and messing up his knees in a way that should be all but impossible for him.

Right now, it's interesting to see how much stuff we associate with the black suit that wasn't in the comics. It doesn't make him stronger or angrier, it doesn't make him emo or give him goopy tentacle powers. Eddie Brock doesn't know Peter personally and won't appear for two more years.

Marvel got weird with their Event Comics. DC kinda figured it out right out of the bat and basically created the modern format, but Marvel took its time and got weird with it.

I'm probably gonna talk about that more in other posts.

I know what you're thinking and you're right, but more importantly you're wrong! Spider-Man did first get his black costume in Secret Wars #8, where it shmushed out of an interstellar soft-serve machine, but because of how that comic was produced, this issue came out in December, 1968.

So if people aren't saying it, I want to, and if they are saying it, I want to add my voice to the pile. The Democratic Party are Controlled Opposition. They're jobbers. They're the Washington Generals of politics. They're taking a dive and we will all go down with them.

#ControlledOpposition