The Structure Of A Series: The Boys (90 Monthly Issues)

I: The Name Of The Game (1-6)

II: Get Some ("Get Some," 7-10; "Glorious Five Year Plan," 11-14)

III: Good For The Soul ("Good For The Soul," 15-18; "I Tell You No Lie, G.I.," 19-22)

IV: We Gotta Go Now (23-30)

V: Herogasm (miniseries, 1-6)

VI: The Self-Preservation Society ("The Self-Preservation Society," 31-34; "Nothing Like It In The World," 35-36, "La Plume De Ma Tante Est Sur La Table," 37; "The Instant White-Hot Wild," 38)

VII: "What I Know," 39; "The Innocents," 40-43; "Believe," 44-47)

VIII: Highland Laddie (miniseries, 1-6)

IX: The Big Ride ("Proper Preparation And Planning," 48-51; "Barbary Coast," 52-55; "The Big Ride," 56-59)

X: Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker (miniseries, 1-6)

XI: Over The Hill With The Swords Of A Thousand Men (60-65)

XII: The Bloody Doors Off ("The Bloody Doors Off," 66-71; "You Found Me," 72)

Good Omens

Good Omens is a TV series by Neil Gaiman based on a prose novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman so it is not comic-related except that Gaiman wrote comics. However, the cartoon credits and even the visuals with live actors generate a comics feel.

A former Doctor Who acts so well as a hip demon that he is scarcely recognizable.

Is the Antichrist necessary for Armageddon? Demons can break the rules. See "James Blish And The Antichrist," here.

The Time Travel Problem In Avengers: Endgame III

See here.

Andrea argues that:

the characters time travel from the present of Reality A to the past of Reality B and return to the present of Reality A;

Thanos follows some of the heroes from the past of Reality B to the present of Reality A;

therefore, the only discrepancy is that, if Rogers remained in the past of Reality B, then he should have aged into the present of B, not A.

I think it also follows that Thanos' disappearance from Reality B prevents V in B?

New Swamp Thing TV Series

In this version, there was something going on in the swamp even before Alec Holland got to it.

He says that he has seen an alien autopsy.

Some of the characters have the same names but they are not the same characters, particularly not Abby. Are Anton and Gregori going to show up?

The Cainites

I missed a point in the previous post about "Cain." On the very next page in Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Season Of Mists (New York, 1992) -

Lucifer: Cain. You must know of the Cainites?
Cain: Can't say that I do...
Lucifer: Gnostic sect. Second century. They rejected the books of the New Testament in favor of the Gospel of Judas.
-page 49, panel 1.

Lucifer: They believed that we created the heaven and the earth, and that you were the persecuted party in that unfortunate affair with your brother. They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things.
-panel 2.

Lucifer: And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?
Cain: I wouldn't know.
-panel 3.

The Wikipedia article on Cainites mentions this issue of The Sandman as a popular cultural reference.

Now maybe it is time to return to Poul Anderson's very different Cainites?

The Time Travel Problem In Avengers: Endgame II

See The Time Travel Problem In Avengers: Endgame I, here.

Just before V, Thanos detects the activities of one of the superhero teams that have traveled from 6 AV to times before V in order to extract the Stones;

following this clue, Thanos travels to 6 AV, arriving shortly after the teams have returned;

all those who had been dissolved at V are restored;

Thanos and all his forces are dissolved.

Therefore, in this timeline, Thanos, having been dissolved in 6 AV:

does not travel back to just before V;

does not cause V;

does not live on another planet from V until 5 AV;

is not killed on that planet by Thor.

Yet these events have happened in this timeline in which Thanos arrives in 6 AV.

Contradiction.

The Time Travel Problem In Avengers: Endgame 1

At the end of Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos uses the Stones to cause 50% of living beings throughout the universe to dissolve into dust. For convenience, let us call this mass dissolution the "Vanishment"(V), let us call years after V "AV" and let us call events immediately before V "just before V."

In Avengers: Endgame (I might not have all of these events in exactly the right order):

five years elapse so we get to 5 AV;
surviving superheroes find Thanos on another planet and Thor kills Thanos;
Ant Man, who had not dissolved but had been trapped in the quantum realm for five objective years but five subjective hours (?), returns to the macrocosm;
he suggests -

superhero teams travel to times before V when it would be possible for each team to extract one of the Stones and bring them to the present which is now some time after 5 AV, say 6 AV;
use the Stones to restore all the people who had been dissolved but do this in 6 AV;
return each Stone to the moment from which it had been extracted.

Thus, the past would not be changed: the history of each Stone would be uninterrupted and the six years between V and 6 AV would not be affected.

What is wrong with this plan?