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Geoff made this comment on the post about Captain America getting killed in the Marvel Comics…

“Marvel is a crazy universe. I can’t believe the did this.”

Me neither, Geoff. But it does lend some validity to something I’ve been thinking for awhile, about the Marvel Comics universe…

It’s this “moving time” principle by which Marvel establishes that all of its comics are canon, even though most of them now contradict real-world stuff. I mean, it’s like Tony Stark was originally wounded in Vietnam and that’s what led him to become Iron Man. The thing of it is it’s 2007 and Stark would now have to be, what in his sixties-seventies by now, if he started then? The Fantastic Four’s fateful spacelaunch happened because America had to beat “the commies” – as Susan Storm put it – into space. See where the problem there is?

Well, the thing of it ...

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Jeri Rowe’s article a few days ago at the News & Record was the first time I’d heard from Marvel Comic’s Civil War storyline in some time. I did a little follow-up reading and knowing what I know now – yes even considering the DUMBEST thing that Marvel Comics has EVER done – I must say that it sounds like I’ve missed quite a show, just going by how this ended…

In case you haven’t heard, in Civil War #7 the whole thing about superhero registration – which Tony Stark aka Iron Man has led the charge for and which Captain America has led a resistance movement against – comes to a violent crescendo. And… Captain America surrenders! The Superhero Registration Act is now fully enforced. Cap is taken away in shackles and Stark is now the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. (if you know Marvel comics you know how big a ...

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