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Juno Beach

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  1. $15 500 - Two and half hours to go! https://www.ebay.com/itm/303869246022?ul_noapp=true
  2. Finally caught up with this thread. Great theories here. This is the show I look forward to the most every week by a huge margin.
  3. I just read the sites you mentioned. Yes, they are reporting that Marvel is not going to reprint it due to this incident. I did not see any opinion by them, just a synopsis. Do you think a comic book site shouldn't report something like that? I have no idea what the bolded part of your post means.
  4. Link to where people are trying to cancel his career? Talented is debatable. I think his art is plain bad.
  5. Further in the article: RS: And editorial should be actively looking for problems like these after their colossal oversight in X-Men Gold #1 a few years back. I went looking for reference photos, trying to see if I could find something that matched this visual, and I could not. The shop window simply does not look like the shops in the NYC Diamond district. Either Ewing asked for the symbol in the -script, or Bennett intentionally chose to add it. It’s a mistake they should apologize for and rectify when the issue is collected in trade, just as Marvel did when collecting X-Men Gold #1.
  6. For people who didn't read the whole article this explains it deeper: There was one small, subtle moment in this issue that I need to call attention to, and I’m sorry to say it isn’t for a happy reason. Early in the issue, Joe stops into a jewelry store to buy a diamond bracelet with some money that he recently pickpocketed. As he does, we get a glimpse of the store’s window display, which bears the name “CRONEMBERG” and, in painted gold relief below it, a prominent Magen David, the Star of David. Even in the best possible interpretation, this is odd. The scene has otherwise no connection to Judaism or the Jewish ownership of the shop; there are no Jewish themes to which the comic is trying to point us. The only conceivable interpretation, to put it frankly, is that this is a visual play on the old and antisemitic trope of Jews running the diamond business: a centuries-old cliché rooted in stereotypes of Jewish merchants as unscrupulous profiteers willing to do business with shady criminals (which, indeed, the shop is doing in this scene) [Ed. Note: One thing we didn’t see when this article was first published was that instead of the store being labelled as a JEWELRY store, the word JEWERY was written instead. It was slightly hard to notice, being written backwards, but is pretty blatant. This makes for an incredibly overt antisemetic dogwhistle in this book.] This is not an overt moment. I imagine it would be easy for most readers to overlook entirely. But as a Jewish reader coming to this comic, the sight of a Jewish symbol stenciled on the outside of that window was hard to ignore, and hard to justify. Perhaps this was called for in the comic -script itself (though that seems unlikely to me), or perhaps it was the addition of the issue’s art team, penciler Joe Bennet or inkers Ruy José and Belardino Brabo. It may be worth noting here that Bennett has, in previous years, expressed some less-than-admirable social viewpoints: in 2019, after controversial journalist Glenn Greenwald was struck by a supporter of far-right Brazilian autocrat Jair Bolsonaro, Bennett posted on facebook that “the slap was mine, too! Should have thrown a punch,” before he deleted the post and publicly apologized. Marvel’s reticence to stop using Bennett on their books has been troubling, and has required, for my part, a certain willingness to hold my nose when analyzing this series. Whether or not this particular instance was at his initiative, I felt it needed to be mentioned.
  7. DC Comics Presents #26 is not in any way comparable to the current ads/previews situation
  8. Hulk 180 is not in any way comparable to the current ads/previews situation
  9. They were also trying to warn him about Monica, who seems to work for SWORD.
  10. Wanda does have some control of what's happening. When her mind couldn't handle the beekeeper she reversed time so it didn't happen. But that doesn't explain SWORD et al. I enjoy a mystery so this is cool for me for them to do a slow burn.
  11. Well, that Spider-Man scene is frickin' awesome!
  12. Easy. It would have ruined his surprise appearance in #180.
  13. I got Disney Plus because of this. Man, I hope it's as good as it looks.
  14. To get back to the OP's question Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi #1 came out the same month as SW:tPH #3 and includes a brief appearance of Mace Windu.
  15. It's been a while since I've read them but a recap could be enough story-wise. I'll have to reread.
  16. Thank you. Why it's listed as a cameo on comicbookrealm is strange then.
  17. Some places say that's a cameo. Now I have to dig it out to see what kind of cameo it is (body part, talking/not talking, just in background, etc...)
  18. If they were wanting to read about wolverine they should start with #180 to get the full story.
  19. Without the final page of #180 that story would be incomplete.