The Sickness Unto Death

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(Source: avengers-world)

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First appearance of Sersi.

[from The Eternals (1976) #3]

(Source: kaeneko, via tokomon)

hairlessharpy:

kindue:

I’m probably the only person in the world that ships Obi-Wan Kenobi and Asajj Ventress. I mean c’mon those two are perfect for each other. It’s easy to tell that she at least has some feelings for him.

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unmanuel:

“Rei is someone who is aware of the fact that even if she dies, there’ll be another to replace her, so she doesn’t value her life very highly,” Anno explains, slouching ever-deeper into the couch. “Her presence, her existence—ostensible existence—is ephemeral. She’s a very sad girl. She only has the barest minimum of what she needs to have. She’s damaged in some way; she hurts herself. She doesn’t need friends.”

Anno understands the Japanese national attraction to characters like Rei as the product of a stunted imaginative landscape born of Japan’s defeat in the Second World War. “Japan lost the war to the Americans,” he explains, seeming interested in his own words for the first time during our interview. “Since that time, the education we received is not one that creates adults. Even for us, people in their 40s, and for the generation older than me, in their 50s and 60s, there’s no reasonable model of what an adult should be like.” The theory that Japan’s defeat stripped the country of its independence and led to the creation of a nation of permanent children, weaklings forced to live under the protection of the American Big Daddy, is widely shared by artists and intellectuals in Japan. It is also a staple of popular cartoons, many of which feature a well-meaning government that turns out to be a facade concealing sinister and more powerful forces.

Anno pauses for a moment, and gives a dark-browed stare out the window. “I don’t see any adults here in Japan,” he says, with a shrug. “The fact that you see salarymen reading manga and pornography on the trains and being unafraid, unashamed or anything, is something you wouldn’t have seen 30 years ago, with people who grew up under a different system of government. They would have been far too embarrassed to open a book of cartoons or dirty pictures on a train. But that’s what we have now in Japan. We are a country of children.”

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Spider-Man leaves the Avengers because he’s too busy.

[from Avengers (1998) #1]

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Smasher of the Shi’ar Imperial Guard travels to Earth to warn the X-Men of Cassandra Nova.

[from New X-Men (2001) #122]

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First appearance of the High Evolutionary.

[from Thor (1966) #134]