Just the Ticket

Hello, Ticketholders, and welcome to Marvel Theory! I began my career on the internet by modifying the catch phrases of Ryan Seacrest, television film critics like Leonard Maltin, and obscure Stephen King characters like Symphonic Stan, the Big Band Man (who may or may not also be Joe Strummer from The Clash and/or one of The Ramones) from Black House  and The Talisman . So it's only fitting that I "borrow" from a fellow internet personality in this day and age to kick off my latest MCU theory. Now, I ask you: Why is Michael Keaton's Vulture riffing on Bugs Bunny in the Morbius trailer when the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the (ugh! Do I really  have to type this? Did they really  think this would roll off the tongue?) "Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters" were confirmed to have nothing to do with each other? Why is Eddie Brock reading the Daily Bugle tabloid from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy in the trailer for Venom: Let There Be Carnage ? An...

 Greetings, Weebotaks! After several false starts and skipped weeks, I finally bring you the...finale...of Isekai "Quartet" , which, true to the form of the franchise, is now more than a quartet in issue count. Before I begin this fairly short entry, indulge in your inner Dartagnan, your inner Tommy Oliver, your inner third or fifth wheel, and remember to click those social media buttons and comment down below so I can bowl that extra frame and beat the game with more than a hundred percent. If you haven't yet, you can watch Isekai Quartet  on CrunchyRoll in the VRV app, which gives you more than you could ask for at a lower price than you'd think. And while we're being extra (because themes), a double SPOILER Warning is in effect after the image. Following from KonoSuba  Season One, Re:Zero Season One, Saga Of Tanya the Evil , and Overlord Season Three, the casts of the four series are each given a red button by some mysterious force, and because comedy and not...

Come on in, Ticketholders; I have all the time in the world! And some of the other worlds, too. Wednesday has come and gone (unless you're me, and you're writing this in the past. Then that means you're a Variant and you must be pruned for copyright infringement), and the final Timely Thorsday  of July is upon us. You might say it's the one that remains.... I am He Who Remains Invested In the MCU Despite Black Widow  Not Being Very Good, a.k.a. He Who Still Hasn't Watched Any Films Between Infinity War and Endgame . It's a long title, I know. But it saves on exposition costs when I meet total strangers who want to kill me or use my balloon to escape from Oz or inherit my OSHA-rejected chocolate factory , or steal my anachronistic, British phone booth to help the ghost of George Carlin save the future with the lyrics of a Tenacious D song . so John doesn't Die At the End . Huh. Maybe mashing all of these unrelated universes into one metaphor wasn't s...

COVID ruined a lot for us, didn't it, Ticketholders? I mean, along with the unnecessary deaths of millions of people, unprecedented unemployment rates, the largest multi-phase stimulus program in history, a prolonged economic shutdown, government incompetence at the highest level, human insanity at every level, and introducing the world to the most mysterious and adaptable virus since HIV, we were forced to stay indoors and watch old things on our televisions ! How inconvenient! How unnecessary! How dare a globally pervasive biological agent prevent comic book Cinematic Universe fans with progressive minds from vicariously participating in the Marvel vs. DC Battle Of the Female-Led Superhero Movies on the largest screen their local theater could afford to maintain by charging their patrons a 400-800% mark-up on candy and soda? Of all the nerve, right? Right? "In case you couldn't tell, I was being sarcastic" So, for those who didn't know, Black Widow  is one of th...

I love the title of this week's episode of Loki . The episode itself is pretty awesome, too. But before I tell you Ticketholders and all of your Variants about that, here's my usual title-related lesson: Journey Into Mystery  was a horror comic by Marvel precursor Atlas Comics. As the decades changed, it moved into subject matter such as giant monsters, science fiction, and then mythology, specifically "The Mighty Thor," wherein his villains were also introduced, like the Executioner (Karl Urban in the MCU), the original Enchantress, and our current "mischievous scamp," Loki (Tom Hiddleston). Further information can be found at the link above. Now, I must apologize for not beginning with a greeting, Ticketholders, but I realized that I've been using the same one for months now, and I felt in need of a change. The usual request of button clicks and comments (which rarely come to pass, if ever) still persist in the land beyond the Void, so go there and do ...

SPOILER Warning, Weebotaks! Today's Isekai  series is what ends up putting the sarcastic quotation marks around "Quartet , " Not only that, but it's kind of hard to talk about how good  of a series it is, given some of the questionable subject matter that crops up in its plot. So in addition to the aforementioned SPOILERS, be warned of that in advance, as well. If you want to see what I'm talking about for yourselves, go watch The Rising Of the Shield Hero  under the Crunchyroll banner on VRV , subbed or dubbed in qualities up to 1080p. Also, hit those social media buttons and comment at the end of this post, not just on Facebook or Twitter. The Rising Of the Shield Hero  is unique among its peers in that the main character doesn't get isekai 'd by dying. Instead, Naofumi Iwatani gets drawn into a parallel fantasy world by reading a book. You know, those physical media composed of sheets of compressed tree pulp with words printed on them? Usually, such pro...

 Or perhaps I should call it TimeDrop Thorsday , seeing as how it's the 23rd issue? For those who don't know, TimeDrop and the number twenty-three are kind of my personal brand when it comes to the creative arts. It's my DJ name, as well as my self-publication company; a nexus value in my existence, if you will. Anyway, Ticketholders, it's that time again!  So use your Temp Pads to click those social media buttons and make your comments converge on the comments section down below. Also, check your chronometers because a SPOILER Event is imminent. Did you know that if you Google Nexus , you get everything from loan companies and border patrol initiatives to smartphones and community improvement projects? Seriously, the word is connected to so many things that I didn't find the definition until near the bottom of my first page of search results. And that definition is as follows: " a means of connection; tie; link. A  connected series or group. T he core or cente...