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All my orders plus the comic shop haul for the day. IMG_20260516_150800168_HDR~2.jpg
 
Thoughts on The Fantastic Four as The Great American Novel? It is an extremely extensive, borderline schizo explanation of how the author rationalizes the titular team’s story. The author has some interesting takes on the characters, as well as several genuinely thorough explanations of meta events far before my time, and frankly I just don’t understand how it seems to have slipped through the cracks. The Original Marvel Universe, in a similar vein, seems to get brought up 10x as often for reasons unknown. Both sites seem very interesting for relatively similar reasons.
 
That Great American Novel site lost me as soon as I found the page with his fanon of Johnny being Sue's son by Namor. Since I was reading the pages out of order, he almost lost me when he suggested the other Marvel heroes either don't exist in his theory or aren't nearly as visible/powerful/active as the comics would have you believe, and again when he said everything since the end of Englehart's run has been the result of Franklin using his powers to keep everyone going through the motions while essentially timelocked. Never seen the other one.

Anyone out there old enough to remember Unca Cheeks the Toy Wonder's Silver Age Comics Web Site ( https://www.geocities.ws/cheeksilver/index-2.html ) when it was hosted on Tripod and still had its graphics intact? The current GeoCities.WS archive is nice and I'm glad it exists, but it's missing something without the scans.

I'm just sayin' here, is all.
 
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