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I didn’t notice this before since I don’t read the solicitations materials online, but here’s the cover of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #15 that Marvel put online:

And here’s what they put in the actual Previews magazine:

I always thought those color-coded bars on the side of every. single. page in Marvel Previews were excessive. I doubt this was anything other than lazy page layout, but that is an unfortunate bit of accidental censorship.

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Keeping two teenage boys, one of whom is only wearing speedos, back at the base for “morale.”
No, no, that’s not creepy at all. Really.

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Oh, come on, you didn’t think I’d let that pass without comment, did you?

  • It’s nice to see an acknowledgment that the Hercules of myth had an eye for the fellas as well as the ladies.
  • It’s especially nice to see it after the “eromenos” jokes in earlier issues.
  • A significant portion of an Uncanny X-Men storyline focused on Northstar’s crush on Iceman. After that, it’s hard to see how having sex with Hercules could be seen as an embarrassment.
  • Yes, it did occur to me that revealing this after killing off Hercules is convenient timing.
  • (No, I don’t really think Herc will stay dead long. Or that this will ever be addressed again.)

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Tony Stark.
Yelling at Nick Fury.
For being a fascist tool.

Wait, what?

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Three mentions in two pages. Sounds like Hawkeye has a thing for long hair.

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I see the editorial staff at Marvel cared about as much about the quality of “Secret Wars II” cross-overs as readers did.

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