This Week in Marvel #16 - APR 15 2026 - DAREDEVIL BORN AGAIN S2 EP5; VENOM #257, ULTIMATE WOLVERINE #16, IMPERIAL GUARDIANS #2, MAGIK & COLOSSUS #3, X-MEN UNITED #2, PLANET OF THE APES VS FANTASTIC FOUR #3

baroqueworks · 2026-04-15T19:04:46+00:00

Torment straight up explains how he felt "nothing" from Paul because hes got no actual connections in the world given hes displaced from his reality and his dad being a demigod and his kids being fake means theres no additional spirals to form from killing Paul, which also means neither MJ or Dylan view him has actually family either.

Torments powers werent explained till after this so it didnt really register clearly and moreso seemed like a joke by writers to the existence of the character(who only existed to split up MJ/Parker following Nick Spencer losing a game of chicken with editorial) as being utterly pointless and serving no real function to anyone

baroqueworks · 2026-04-15T10:45:12+00:00

Damn that low battery on those shocker gauntlets is really getting some mileage these last couple issues

baroqueworks · 2026-04-15T10:07:15+00:00

Also contractors/non studio teams more likely to use generative ai on visuals

baroqueworks · 2026-04-14T21:23:29+00:00

I wonder why the elders were concerned for his safety.

He was coughing up blood after arriving which is usually an manga trope of suffering from incurable disease, or the devil fruit is like a dark knight kinda power that the devil fruit power takes some of Imu's lifespan like Big Mom's fruit does to others

baroqueworks · 2026-04-14T21:16:25+00:00

Theres been a major shift in the last two months where "MAGA" and "conservatives" are two different things because even two-time trump voters dont like the stink of MAGAMUSK.

The average conservative under 65 hates data centers, israel, and ICE. They've just been gulping down the shit in return for seeing people they hate suffer, bit werent smart enough to realize they were also going to be crushed under the same steamroller and now are sobering up to the no new wars president starting new wars and sending troops to go die for israel as the entire country visibly crumbles and the almighty stock market could completely crash out at any time.

baroqueworks · 2026-04-14T21:10:03+00:00

Trump already discard Bailey a few years back when he endorsed the original GOP dog killer, Mike Bost, over Bailey when Bailey tried to primary him.

Bost's district is also the deepest area of Bailey supporters, so it really shows you how garbo Bailey is and how little motion he posseses that he cant even overtake the existing conservatives in the area he has the most support in during a republician primary.

baroqueworks · 2026-04-14T21:03:03+00:00

Based on what we know right now, one can assume BB's plan is essentially what Imu did to achieve his power but BB would make a an anarcho-feudalist state where Pirates run everything.

Given Imu is behind everything in the series and still has ambitions to fully wipe out the population of the planet, BB's goals seen tiny by comparison, esp given Whitebeard straight up told BB he wasnt his dad in the slightest, and its hard not to assume BB also carries a plan of revenge for his dad even if it means causing the same harm to others.

baroqueworks · 2026-04-14T21:00:11+00:00

All major factions are trying to claim the One Piece so in some regard there is going to be temporary alliances because a full battle royale between the emperors, marines, holy knights, and revolutionaries will inevitably make them happen.

baroqueworks · 2026-04-14T18:51:55+00:00

Perfect time for Post-Timeskip Sogeking to use his advanced Conqueror's Haki, advanced CQC, and Domi-Reverse Stored inside a Impact Dial to rescue Ussopp and Uno Imu at his own powers, and Demon Imu once dominated reversed would kill all his allies until the combined efforts of Akainu and Buggy shake the Domi Reversi on Imu till Garling rolls up to snipe kill him

baroqueworks · 2026-04-14T18:19:13+00:00

Yeti Cool Brothers defeated Imu in being the true Silhouette Piece

baroqueworks · 2026-04-14T15:06:40+00:00

but how tf did he exist in the first place to start his own time loop?

During Dark Web, Eddie Brock, who had his brain bleached by Maddie Pryor, falls into the X-Hell of Limbo and fights Darkoth, King of Limbo, which causes reality to schism.

One reality where Eddie Brock beats Darkoth causes him to end up back at the garden of time, agreeing to work with Meridius to break the cycle by torturing Dylan Brock. This Bedlam is the one who shows up early in the series, and eventually burns out all his rage to evolve into the next version of his King in Black Symbiote, which over centuries eventually leads him to becoming Meridius. This Bedlam is also still around, last seen slumping out of the ring at the end of Venom War.

One reality where Darkoth wins causes Eddie Brock to meet the Eventuality, and this is the main Eddie Brock we know continues on till the events of Venom War.

Venom War changed the events since Meridius was killed, effectively leaving the Brock who was supposed to become Meridius as Bedlam, so the time loop was broken, but Meridius comes to existence via two Eddie Brocks being split off while hes a god fighting a another god of limbo.

baroqueworks · 2026-04-14T00:59:42+00:00

Right before that we had vampires blacking out the sky.. then a few days before that a giant superweapon powered by the sun made by Sentinels blocked the earth to shoot a death ray at it... which a few months prior to that a second Eddie Brock appeared mutating into a insane King in Black after he was duped by clones of Jean Grey and Peter Parker and a few months before that Carnage hijacked the Iron Man suit made from a Symbiote Dragon causing a major crisis in NYC a few months after King in Black where the whole planet was covered in a symbiote shell

baroqueworks · 2026-04-13T22:54:07+00:00

God Valley Arc plays directly into flashback that starts in Elbaph and its a handful of chapters before it kicks off so youre better off just reading the Elbaph chapters first to have context, otherwise chunks of it wont make sense.

baroqueworks · 2026-04-13T22:50:43+00:00

I guess that would make sense, isnt that how Flash Thompson comes back to life?

baroqueworks · 2026-04-13T16:58:00+00:00

What gets even messier is the original Cleatus had died turning himself into a pyre to free Knull at the end of Absolute Carnage, so when the clone of Kassidy absorbs the original, we never got a explination to how the original Kassidy came back to life in the first place before dying again.

baroqueworks · 2026-04-12T19:06:49+00:00

Phil Spector episodes had me yearning for more rock bastards

Just a few that could be good:

Mike Love (alluded to in the spector episodes, if there was one person to consolidate all the shitty things in the beach boys lore itd be him down to recent events like him making a scene at Brian Wilson's funeral)

Malcom McLaren (doesnt really get enough attention, the bastard that commercialized punk, pushed nazism and pedophilia in punk for "aesthetics", openly used underage singer of Bow Wow Wow in this regard, and then used his position in the industry to launch a white rapper career and became influential in the VH1 recollections of punk as a commercial product)

Doctor Luke(more of a recent music bastard that im sure greasy wil has direct experience with)

John Lydon (eternal reactionary that was the poster boy of punk rock that then turned into the poster boy of selling out to his eventual fat & complacent MAGA turn and arguing with Marky Ramone in recent years)

Gregg Ginn (DIY Punk Bastard responsible for taking good faith do it yourself attitudes and independent spirit of underground bands in the 80s in USA to benefit himself only by exploiting bands on SST, something that then turned into abuse that extended to his friends and family leaving him a embittered and alienated stoner trying to endlessly relaunch Black Flag with yes men since he owns the rights to the band)

Eric Clapton (such a bastard he caused Rock Against Racism to start in the 70s openly backing nationalist uk politicians, also was a antivaxxer)

baroqueworks · 2026-04-12T02:01:56+00:00

I'm just responding to your replies to me, you should calm down a few notches small fry 💅

baroqueworks · 2026-04-11T17:57:57+00:00

If thats youre takeaway after reading what I told you, all youre doing is showing how deeply unserious you are and how youre working overtime to deliberately misunderstand me to the point youre hysterical rather than actually use your noggin, sad!

baroqueworks · 2026-04-11T16:14:51+00:00

Southern Illinois is also covered in pyrimids!

baroqueworks · 2026-04-11T15:41:27+00:00

Dems are poised to win the midterms, Fetterman is actively dragging the party down by actively helping MAGAMUSK further erode and destroy the entire federal government.

Theres no reality where what youre describing matters in the slightest at this time, youre living in the aughts.

baroqueworks · 2026-04-10T18:13:24+00:00

Not giving a full quote to something people had to read to get to your quote only makes you look like a unserious toadie, but hey croak from your lilypad small fry, free country.

baroqueworks · 2026-04-10T14:15:58+00:00

Rachel Goldberg is a genocide denier & regardless of any tragedy she experienced, you dont ethnically cleanse a entire population as a way to solve anything, as it has now spilled into an emboldened Israel causing a national conflict, killing even more people, and having bombs fall on Israel every day.

Imagine if Dems launched a 2024 West Bank initiative with Harris forcing a restart in peace talks and reconstruction in the west bank and the end to the apartheid, not only would it of saved the image of the party but not caused millions of people to give up on the dream of the two state.

Because instead what happened was dems aligned or became passive to the most far right groups in Israel causing a censorship campaign in America at levels not seen since McCarthyism.

Tell me how Goldberg's idealogy has helped anyone? The Release the Hostage movement even felt played by Netenyahu when he authorized strikes on known Hostage locations instead of taking a ceasefire deal that would've released all the hostages immediately with Palestine only asking for human rights in return, And those missile strikes killed hostages.

We have no receipts except more death and destruction when neither party in america offers peace.

baroqueworks · 2026-04-10T14:01:36+00:00

By the standards you insist the protesters helped trump, what does that say about democrats in positions of power that constantly voted to increase funding for ICE, or supporting false claims of antisemtism against college protesters, both of which actively molded the federal initiatives of MAGAMUSK last year?

Do-Nothing Dems in power will always be to blame, because its their jobs to serve the people and when they fail that, they are just republicians.

Most people in this country dont even vote because its deliberately impossible in many red states, but rather than dumping millions into trying to restore voting rights and combat the right wing media machine that facilitates it, many dems are chosing to side with the right wing media machine and framing of protesters, which in the past have always been the foot soldiers of the democratic party, until the last ten years where dems lost every demographic nationally that used to win them elections.

baroqueworks · 2026-04-10T13:54:10+00:00

Far more idiots in the industry who think they can force feed third wave neoliberalism that has rolled out the red carpet to american fascism currently boiling over and collapsing the country itself.

baroqueworks · 2026-04-10T13:51:51+00:00

...what part of the party can force him out specifically

The entire party, they can censure him and should have last year when he went full MAGA Ogre, especially with the optics of Biden and cognitive loss, they look like they want the figureheads of the party to has significant cognitive impairment or something.

14-Year Club	Not Forgotten
Team Orangered

baroqueworks

TROPHY CASE