Well, either that, or we can start using Chicago as another node to release some of the pressure of New York always having to be the center of the Marvel Universe. I'm thinking we could move some of the Defenders there, perhaps X-Force or some of the New Mutants given that the Bang Babies are still going to be a problem in Chicago, etc.
Just suggesting that while we could have Virgil go to New York and join the rest there, we could also make Chicago a new place with its own dynamics, which could certainly help for the creativity of many different writers or artists that want to do something new, yet can't because New York is just so crammed in with Superheroes in every corner. I know this has been tried before with West Coast Avengers, but in the end they never put many of the Heavy Hitters there to anchor it, and many just went back to New York leaving the dregs behind. This time, with Virgil serving as the Main Anchor, we could have a good enough roster of B-Listers (and perhaps another A-Lister) to settle in Chicago to then attracht and create another node.
I honestly really like the idea of Chicago as another node for the Marvel universe. It desperately needs it. For the Bang Babies, I assume they're just going to be people who had latent X-Genes activated through the event or something?
Unless Miles Morales gets a personality then I'll be against him. The guy just doesn't seem to have anything going for him save for Marvel always trying to make us think he's Spider-Man.
Personally, I'm all for Ben Reilly becoming the next Spider-Man with a better written Clone Sage, one that still keeps as Peter as the wise mentor, and Mayday as his daughter.
Preach! More than anything about Miles Morales, I just can't stand how
boring he is. There's so little too him that I just can't stand it. There's also the fact that I hate him getting paired up with Gwen Stacy nowadays, but that's more of a beef I have with Gwen then I do with Miles. Like, seriously? Your Peter
just died in your arms in an extremely traumatizing death in which you and the rest of your city blames you for, only to end up in parallel world and immediately try jumping some other dudes bones? I can't stand it, it's so unbelievable and degrading to her character and the trauma she'd be experiencing.
Hell yeah! I really miss Mayday and I always love seeing Ben Reilly getting some more love. Seriously, fuck that new evil Ben Reilly bullshit.
But yes, I can't wait to see how Static stacks up against Electro or Magneto.
Eh, fights between people with nearly identical powers are rarely interesting just because there's little that they can actually do that the other can't.
Same, I would like him to be properly recognized, and perhaps helping in guiding the next generation of heroes since while he does not have the full powers of Captain America, he's still the closest they got.
I've never been a fan of Isaiah Bradley, mostly because my first exposure to him was Falcon and the Winter Soldier(I'm a DC nerd, not a Marvel one), but if you can make him interesting, I say go for it.
...I suddenyl want some Omakes about Bruce's life and success in the 50s, perhaps going against McCarthy and accusing him of being a communist.
Why? It's already established fact that McCarthy was proven correct by things like the Venona Papers, declassified Soviet intelligence and more. Hell, one of the people who founded the committee that would eventually become the House Committee on Un-American Activities, tasked in part with going after Soviet agents and sympathizers, was literally a Soviet agent. Then of course there's stuff like Harry Dexter White, the Cambridge 5, Yuri Bezmenov, Frankfurt School, etc etc. Dude may not have been 100% on everything, but he was right on a lot more than people give him credit for. Frankly, McCarthyism is a misattributed concept. Honestly though, I think I mostly just don't like the fact that he wasn't fully wrong, but he was still systematically destroyed by his political enemies until he drank himself to death. Feels bad to see. Kind of like Randy Weaver of the Ruby Ridge siege. Dude wasn't a
good man by any stretch, but knowing that he was dealt an injustice and learning about how much of a broken man he became after the whole thing and losing his wife and son... it just leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. I don't know, maybe I shouldn't be discussing that here, but that's just how I feel about it all, I guess.
