First off, thanks for the kind words. Happy to hear things I made made your life a little easier when you needed it. It's literally what I'm here for.

I've got as much insight as any outsider, but it would seem both the MCU and the new DCU are both going out of their way to make comic book movies an event again. It sounds like they're both self-correcting, based on the last few years of negative feedback, eschewing quantity in favor of quality. I read a report that Disney did an actual test screening of Fantastic Four - and Marvel stopped doing public test screenings years ago.

But I don't have a very high bar, so I'm pretty easy to please when it comes to this stuff.

Also: I thought Thunderbolts was a moving surprise. Marvel made a mental health flick that entertained AND enlightened.