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Really looking forward to seeing the U-Foes show up in Immortal Hulk, I’ve loved the way that book reinvents characters and the weird, knockoff Fantastic Four crooks have always been such a weird and fun idea.

It’s been like this for ages, but Marvel has really gone all in on the Thunderbolts being their Suicide Squad, huh? I guess I get that the original premise can’t be repeated, but it’s not a terribly imaginative evolution.

I’ve heard to Aaron’s Avenger is really fun, if a little weightless, but I really don’t care for the way he’s used the Phoenix in the past few years. It used to be very specifically connected to Jean and then Rachel Grey, with stories about empowerment and personal agency (more than one essay has been written about feminist readings of the Dark Phoenix Saga) and now it’s just being treated as the cosmic version of the symbiote and slapped on any character, particularly men, for a cool accoutrement. I mean Aaron had Incredibly Old Man Logan bonded with it in King Thor. The Phoenix Force went for a specific and meaningful thing to just another toy for writers to bash around.