"It's been a while, T'challa."

Super-duper-cool meme, right?! Wish I'd been the one to think it, but still glad that another brilliant mind (@swagnetomagnetoinsta) did!

This lil'  beauty came through my Facebook feed just now and made my face just light up as it quickly reminded me of the age progression idea I mentioned near the end of that piece I wrote on Halle Berry being the right choice to play Storm in the X-Men movies. 

So ay, yo, Marvel Studios...what's good? You've officially got the X-Men film rights from SONY. Can you imagine the box office receipts with Storm making a cameo in Black Panther 2? Plus, we can serve all o'dem lame-o haters, like...DJ Darrel D!

C'mon brother Coogler!!! Make it happen, fam. For Wakanda! For Zamunda! For the culture!!! 

LOL

When life hands you lemons...make a meme!

Although they've become an immensely popular facet of internet culture, I've only made two or three memes. I can't even recall now what the first one was, and don't know why I didn't think to post the last one I made a month or so ago (inspired by the Aquaman movie) here on the blog. Maybe I'll do that later tonight and back date it to the time when it was made. 

Anywho, it was with, perhaps, a dark sense of humor that I made this new meme. I'd started workin' on it shortly after reading the announcement today that Netflix (thanx much to Disney) has also pulled the plug on Jessica Jones and The Punisher, the last of the streaming network's six Marvel TV shows.

I'd originally started off using a much different image of Mickey Mouse, but figured I'd play around with another that I'd found and everything pretty much clicked with my second attempt in a way that it hadn't really with the first.

The quote used is line of dialog borrowed from Thanos, the big purple alien wearer of the golden Infinity Gauntlet in Avengers: Infinity War and the comic book series that inspired the film.

Not much more to say about it all. Unlike a great number of fans, I only watched Luke Cage and The Defenders, so my heartbreak over the cancellation of the Marvel shows I cared about was already felt and gotten over some months ago. Them's the breaks, as they say.

I did have a twisted bit of fun making the meme, though.

New Disney Princess? Thanks, Marvel!!!!

Okay, for those who may not know, there's long been a bit of rivalry between Marvel and DC Comics fans similar to long-running battles–staged and otherwise–between Coke and Pepsi, Ford and Chevy, Beatles and Stones, etc. The DC and Marvel rivalry dates back to the early 1960s, when they became the only survivors of the original 1940s era comics publishers.

In the 1970s, DC Comics was purchased by Warner Brothers, which secured their place in the pop culture landscape for decades to come. And in 2018, after a few near-death experiences, Marvel–after producing a solid string of successful superhero movies–was purchased by Disney.

Immediately after the aforementioned merger (I'm talkin' before the ink on the signatures could dry), adult Disney freaks started flyin' around on their #@$%ing Bedknobs and Broomsticks, pondering on Facebook and Twitter if Marvel's Shuri, royal daughter of Wakanda, was now "a Disney Princess!" 

Back in 2012, when Disney purchased Lucasfilm and Star Wars, these fanatics did the same damned thing over Princess Leia. And, um...why does every fictional female Disney character now need be a goddamned Disney Princess? (See: Branding Gone Wild™)

Anywho, fortunately, I didn't let my contrarian outlook on the matter prevent me from havin' a lil' fun with Disney Princess mania.

Mera, the red-headed royal consort of Aquaman in the blockbuster film (played by Amber Heard), and in comics is a character that's owned, registered®, trademarked™ and © copyrighted by DC Comics. But folks who aren't complete comic book geeks always seem to get which comic book characters belong to which comic book company, Marvel or DC, confoozled; hence my meme. But it backfired a bit.

Right before bed last night, I dropped the meme in three different geek groups on Facebook. When I woke up hours later, I noticed that a shocking number of people had given my "anonymously created" meme a over a thousand 👍and ❤️ emojis. And it seemed that *most* were done under the mistaken notion that Mera's actually a legit addition to the irksome "Is she a Disney Princess?" conversation.

Whoops!

Even as I type this about 24 hours later, emojis are popping up two-at-a-time on the left side of the screen. It's insane. 

The meme has also gotten a bunch of the desired reactions, too, though. These range from 😡 emojis and comments oozing with anguished nerd dismay to tickled amusement at the seemingly-intentional-but-maybe-not-intentional faux pas. That's the kind of stuff I was hoping for.

Good times.