What the MCU should do instead of Kang Dynasty! | Avengers: Nights of Wundagore

[@comicpop]

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[@comicpop]

@@brianadkins3880 Of course

[@comicpop]

Sigh. Absorbing Man was never an "official" member of the Wrecking Crew. If this made the episode... IMPOSSIBLE to get through, please accept this comment as as sincere apology as possible.

[@DiarrheaIsUnbreakable]

There's a panel in Secret Wars where Absorbing Man and Wrecking Crew member Thunderball are comparing the size of their wrecking balls

[@BoyNamedSue4]

Marvel treats wrecking ball themed villains like scissors in the house. It’s best to have two.

[@thetizic]

I'll take it under consideration

[@everettjohnson9374]

Duh the wreaking crew are a DC team! It wouldn't make sense if he was in an Image team

[@ChrisBReadin]

Sal I can't believe you got a minor immaterial detail wrong from the last 80+ years of comics....I mean I forgive you but now I know you're not a robot from the future sent back to bring us all joy

[@OreoBrawl]

I love all the thumbnails that are just Sal screaming to the heavens

[@LunasDaddy9114]

That’s how you know it’s gonna be a doozy of an episode

[@EZ95]

What would Sal scream? A word or phrase, his "Shazam" if you will

[@metaknight7117]

@@EZ95 “This…SUCKSSSSSSS”

[@PaulGonzalez-PhilOsyfee]

I always imagine it’s Sal singing.

[@lonely-soul-f2v]

I love it when some of them include Ethan and Ben are just sitting there feeling uncomfortable about Sal's theatrical poses.

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

The MCU needs to canonize Bova. But only this creepy "Quid pro cow" version of Bova they've spawned on the couch. And see how long they can milk it. Quicksilver: visibly shudders

[@nickypool415]

Honestly ... That reminds me of that weird Teen titans go episode.😂

[@langleymneely]

“Did you leave your wife like you said you would!?” Almost made me cut myself from laughing while I was shaving/cutting my hair! 😂🤣

[@alexnejako777]

the Bova impressions are timeless. when i first saw her in Avengers as a little kid I was like "why is Quicksilver talking to a cow?"

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

I would actually 100% be down for a Scarlet Witch vs. High Evolutionary movie/series in the MCU, if only for the privilege of watching Elizabeth Olson and Chukwudi Iwuji attempt to out-ham each other on screen.

[@Donovan00]

The garbage men part of this episode was so unexpected and funny. Sal's note of "This is the book. This is The Avengers" was so good😂😂

[@Ducaso]

I was rolling lol

[@anthonyleecollins9319]

I love the idea of Hawkeye filling his pockets with food before he's kicked out.

[@nathanchaffin6380]

The first arc of Young Avengers is a perfect Kang story. If they do anything in MCU with Kang moving forward, It should be that. All the pieces are there. Two words Iron Lad.

[@SPKRFCKR1]

This would have been a great story to adapt

[@thoarnejones6805]

You got Iron Lad America Chavez someone who can travel the multiverse. Definitely someone the council would have issues with. Wanda’s twins have history with Immortus in the comics. We could literally have a great story that delves a lil deeper into the Kang character while showing how important these younger characters are.

[@DanV900]

Yep, exactly!

[@MrCeratix]

"You wasted two panels!" "a-ah, I *filled* two panels!"

[@trevorghalt1881]

Beast going after Ms Marvel and remembering that he can't swim and them both drowning was hilarious and had me in tears. Falcon basically saying yes master was crazy also if Vision did have a soul he probably would go to Robo hell with Bender

[@Justice4Skye]

Thanks! Have been watching for four or five years now and thankful for the four of you and how genuine and awesome you are.

[@HatteroSorrow]

Bova the Cow-Woman having the voice and personality of Herbert from Family Guy… may be the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. Thank you, Comicpop. Thank you.

[@TupocalypseShakur]

17:35 I definitely believe Captain America would vouch for Falcon, they way those two were written back then you'd swear they were in a relationship

[@roffstafarian]

I want nothing more than for your version of Bova to be introduced in the MCU played by Jennifer Coolidge, that'd make me so happy

[@wvang0013]

The whole robot tangents had me dying! 😂

[@alexnejako777]

the Whizzer was on the Avengers as a reservist for a while and helped fight Attuma and Dr Doom

[@mikhaelgribkov4117]

Robophobic Sal is back, giving us the funniest lines.

[@bimproctor7019]

The Bova bit gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "cow tipping".

[@Sicod79]

In defense of Wonder Man: Wonder Man #2 (by Gerald Jones), got it in a comic book grab bag. Made me a fan of him. Enchantress and Hollywood, hi jinks, guest staring the Avengers West Coast with great continuity shout outs.

[@comicpop]

I also enjoyed the first few issues of that series haha

[@atnervesend]

Great episode, just a note as someone of romani descent if you want to avoid mentioning the g-slur it's totally alright to call Wanda and Pietro romani.

[@capsjukebox]

I think they missed the chance with solo Wonderman by not taking a page from Paul Chadwick’s Concrete and have Simon get treated more like a living special effect

[@MareoYapp]

Favorite moments 16:20 20:10 23:00 26:00 40:50 43:10 50:20 54:20 56:45 59:50 01:04:00

[@raistlinmajere5550]

I really hope theres an hour of Bova sillys outtakes and we get to see all of it

[@ninja1man4u]

The mark of a quality back issues is making me laugh till my side hurts. This episode made me cry with laughter. Thank you guys for another great episode. I needed a good laugh

[@aegis9109]

That cow milk tangent had me in stitches 😂

[@thedukeofchutney468]

NGL. The only time I heard of the nights of Wundagore was in Spider-Man Inlimited. While it was a mid show it had a BANGER theme song!

[@loreaver3882]

I liked that nano suit with the cape

[@notavailable8514]

See, I always assumed that Chthon was controlling Scarlet Witch in DS:itMoM, since Strange even says the Darkhold's controlling Wanda, and that we would see Chthon show up one day, in the flesh... Maybe in the Agatha spin-off, or some other project down the road... This episode was SO GOOD, btw!!! 😁

[@naplockblubba5369]

3:19 I wasn't looking at the screen while listening to this and hadn't realized until this point that it WASN'T "Knights"

[@WhatIsItAboutThem]

Love Ethan's ATLA shirt ✨ Also I'm guessing Ben has played Lies of P based on his responses to puppets loool

[@conormurphy7017]

This was I think your funniest episode. I literally laughed out loud at least 10 times.

[@bZman]

"Its at a very palatable 98.6 degrees you know!"

[@R.J.Godzilla81]

The Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes animated series did Kang well

[@Hulkzilla0]

Ha! I just watched the Citizen Kang episode last night. Looking forward to this!

[@edwardosquidawardo]

Anytime we do an Avengers book pre The Ultimates, I know it’s gonna be a funny episode

[@cdubbart]

BOVA (randomly): Sure is a lot of not drinking my unpasteurized New-men Cow-human hybrid milk going on around here… 👀

[@langleymneely]

59:29 “Shut up Sandy!” 😂

[@what8294]

I feel like modern Kang stories are all the same sort of thing? Like, a Crisis on Infinite Earths type of story where the timeline is at stake and the Avengers go to the future to meet fun alternative versions of themselves. Off the top of my head there's been four of those stories in the last fifteen years: 1. Kang vs. Ultron in Bendis' Avengers 2. Jonathan Hickman's Avengers' Original Sin crossover tie-in 3. That Uncanny Avengers story with Kang's Avengers (Doom 2099, fascist Psylocke, Deathlok Abomination, Earth X Spider-Girl, etc) 4. Mark Waid's Avengers (?)

[@Peecamarke]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 Y’all had me dying all thru out this vid like y’all were just hanging out after school cracking jokes. I really gotta see y’all in person at a Bmore convention some time y’all chill af

[@NoahWelday]

When's Bova's 6 episode Disney+ series?

[@bensneb360]

I had to look up and see if a Wundagore was a real thing, because Wundagore sounds a lot like Wanda Gore, and in a story about Wanda going mad, that would be quite a coincidence lol

[@seanrector5264]

Bova is a character that rivals The Emperor in levels of hilarity

[@Depthcharge2030]

To be fair about the Magnus thing, it does sound like a cool name. So cool even that all Robot Fighters should go by it.

[@EDT3270]

I could literally watch you guys talk about Avengers stories every single day for the rest of my life 😂

[@PR0MAN01]

Kang in the Earths Mightiest Heroes cartoon is amazing, its the only time I've ever well and truly LOVED Kang. He just isn't the Big Bad of the entire series material, he's a good one and done villain. He's a piece of a larger sprawling narrative, he goes back in time to kill Captain America and save his future. There's no Iron Lad or any other nonsense like that. Just a future despot trying to meddle with the past and that comes into conflict with the heroes. Such a simple idea.

[@robertmccarthy450]

fun fact in his 1940s comics when published by quality comics the full title was Max mercury quicksilver! Also Whizzer's wife was "miss America she flew and kneed people real hard!

[@SPKRFCKR1]

Glad we got some time on Back Issues with Bova

[@ineptgamer3814]

Thanks for another entertaining & hilarious video, guys...! 👍🏻

[@Jstashado82]

I could watch a whole episode of Comic Pop just making fun of The Vision! 😂

[@LucidJo]

I’ve been waiting for you to do this story!! This was one of the several stories my dad had me read growing up. Always loved the cover of a weird corrupted looking Wanda holding the rest of the avengers hostage

[@comicdevil1964]

55:27 was the funniest part in this episode😂

[@Jokezz101]

This was awesome, I would love some niche marvel stories to be adapted to screen!

[@cjlevin4622]

"Maybe they're in Montclaire." Love the quality Jersey references.

[@dirtyDan5311]

Finally the only thing keeping me from my impending self destruction

[@PurplePaddy]

17:23 Hey wait what’s wrong with purple 😂😂

[@benreilly4347]

The madness wasn't even Wanda's fault this time! People like to focus on her massive screw ups but the lady has been through a lot and deserves some respect 😅 she also had a great run in 2023 🎉

[@Matthewlaing1395]

The "I want to marry this toaster" caught me so off guard, I had to pause my game just to laugh. Great content as way guys.

[@OreoBrawl]

The Bova parts made this hilarious

[@ComicCrossing]

This was absolutely brilliant. The idea of the Avengers franchise actually taking an insane chance like this is incredibly unlikely for them now but I would sure as hell like to see it

[@jikorijo4516]

I read this story back in 2021 and I thought it was pretty fun. I don’t have a lot of experience with Classic Avengers, but I’ve liked the ones with art by John Bryne and George Perez. My copy was from 1994 and the trade was titled, The Yesterday Quest. It’s one of the older Marvel trades where they use to cut out or add portions of the story that did/didn’t relate to the main plot line. Specifically, I think the last page was from an X-Men comic, where it reveals who Wanda and Pietro’s Dad is.

[@fafnirdragonbane3625]

Wait was the Absorbing Man ever part of the Wrecking Crew? I thought Thunderball was the ball and chain guy in the Wrecking Crew. Absorbing Man well predates the Wrecker much less the Wrecking Crew, and has his ball in chain because he was part of a chain gain when he got his powers (by drinking water that Loki had spiked with a potion) and his ball and chain got the power too.

[@Ashguy733]

No he never has been.

[@peacerevolver]

I spat my out my drink during this bit 1:04:23

[@howlin.wolf.murphy]

ABSORBING MAN isn’t part of the WRECKING CREW but THUNDERBALL is who has a ball and chain and for some reason was a DR prior to gaining working class themed abilities lol

[@Ashguy733]

Its funny that Absorbing Man became water considering that he was defeated by Thor in his early appearances via becoming water and the issue was utterly horrifying.

[@langleymneely]

Wonder Man not being beloved is why I was actually looking forward to Yahya Abdul Mateen playing him in a series but it’s cancellation just makes me want him as T’Challa. I will never get over not recasting though I completely get & respect the reasoning behind it.

[@sebastianmauritzell6072]

They're actually filming it right now so turns out it isn't cancelled like reported on. Set pics out there as well.

[@thebeewhobuzzes9467]

Another excellent episode.

[@HaussmannComics]

Thunderball also has the ball and chain, and he is a part of the Wrecking Crew, not the Absorbing Man

[@TupocalypseShakur]

I know for certain Ultron has a soul because he once switched with Adam Warlock's and I find it funny for some reason

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

That was when Ultron was merged Hank Pym, though, so it might have been the remnants of Pym’s consciousness that got soul-swapped instead of Ultron himself. Addendum: I hated every word I just typed as part of this response.

[@TupocalypseShakur]

​@@halfmettlealchemist8076I think it happened earlier than that, it was buzzcut Warlock and I know he was early 2010s

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

@@TupocalypseShakurOh, wait, you’re talking about the Abnett/Lanning GOTG run, aren’t you? My bad, I got mixed up. Warlock is technically an artificial life-form, though, isn’t he? So maybe it wasn’t a soul-swap deal so much as it was Ultron downloading himself into Warlock’s mind through AI body-hacking shenanigans.

[@ahsunk6537]

The Bova bit was amazing!

[@karasthepro]

Fun fact with the netflix now being cannon in the MCU, the Wizzer is now canon in the MCU

[@DanV900]

The Kang Dynasty is a great story and rightly listed as the top Avengers story on multiple lists! It is true that you haven’t done it yet. The ending is so dang good.

[@imaginerejector1429]

I thought it said Nights of Wundarr and I had forgotten this story.

[@nines9036]

The Whizzer 🤣

[@jakehornsby10]

The perfect birthday present

[@Bladescorpion83]

Bova: You can call me Step-fer, Quicksilver!

[@shreyanshdas7481]

Best ComicBook trio 🔥🤝

[@Ducaso]

Ya got my sides in stiches here gang!

[@MrAcethesecond]

There were way too many Bova references without someone going for the Bova deez nuts joke. Every single time I heard it, I paused to see if anyone would take the bait

[@roderickfreeman2830]

wtf this episode is hilarious that captain america part cracked me tf up he literally called the president to get gyrich off his ass

[@seaneldridge1738]

Hey, recently read Batman: night cries. Its a great book but pretty dark. I'd love to see what you guys think about it if its available to you.

[@davidmoran2296]

My sides hurt from this episode! Gotta be one of the funniest episodes ever!

[@Capt.Wobbuffet]

I liked High Evolutionary in GOTG3, but he only worked there because he wasn't focused on often and there was no mention of his backstory. He isn't fleshed out enough to carry a full movie nor does he have good comic material; what they COULD do is have him be an enemy that instigates the plot but is dispatched early on and then the Avengers have to deal with the main threat of Chthon (but not before H.E reveals that he was doing all his evolutionary crap because of the Beyonders, like in the comics)... Although I wouldn't mind seeing a live-action version of the EW tie-in where High Evolutionary met ALF, that was the one fun part about that crossover IMO :p

[@kingpinogaming3366]

The Jeangreyification of MCU Scarlet Witch can not be stoped

[@stefansamoyloff3866]

It looks like Hack-eye is dead. OMG! HE'S DEAD? No, he looks dead. He's all purple. It's Avengered development ...

[@peacerevolver]

55:21 thank you falcon

[@bgvo4373]

It’s weird how many of the Avengers had secret identities and secrets before the MCU interpretation of them having no secrets publicly.

[@idongesitusen5764]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t, Henry Peter Gyrich have beef with the X-Men at one point (or be on the Hellfire Club)?

[@alexnejako777]

yes he was made into an Xmen foe for a bit but thankfully got discouraged from funding the creation of the Sentinel models that killed most superhumans in Days of Future Past. he's not as mean now

[@R.J.Godzilla81]

I know Henry Peter Gyrich from the 90’s X-Men the animated series

[@matthewconlon2388]

Um akshually (pushing glasses up nose) post M-Day Quicksilver stole Terrigen crystals and embedded them in his flesh which gave him Time Manipulation powers which he used to mimic speedster hijinks.

[@ctl6985]

The Kang arc in the Earth's Mightesr Heroes cartoon was great and I think could be adapted in the MCU. The Avengers messing with time causes issues in the future so he goes back to fix it and kill them in the process

[@Billiardigan]

Maybe I'm crazy, but I could swear Cthon using the Dark Hold to take advantage of Wanda's pain was textual in Multiverse of Madness itself. Like I though that was what was going on already. That's why I've been so confused about people saying Wanda was out of character. She was being tempted and possessed by spooky evil magic.

[@igeigeigeige]

I love the reference to Bloomfield ave in Montclair.

[@kyotaiken]

I always thought they missed the elephant in the room with Wanda and the problem of introducing the mutants with some kind of alternate version of House Of M, and merely changing her line at the end to be "More Mutants". It would have fit in great with the Doctor Strange 2 film, considering they were already in an alternate universe, which also already had mutants in it. It would have been perfect.

[@GTMQ8]

Waiting for Hasbro to make a Marvel Legends Bova!

[@dane.2294]

If I had nickel for every conversation I've heard today about self aware human/animal hybrids being milked, I'd have a dime. But it is weird it happened twice. Shout out to Plumbing the Deathstar

[@donavan34]

Sal next book........... a song of ice and fire😈😂

[@symbioticwolfkat1374]

I am shocked they didnt make a Puppetmaster reference from the movies.. a puppetmaster who put the souls into his puppets and they can either fight for good or evil. and it's magic shit too.. so I am sooo shocked they didn't mentioned that.

[@catlawyerwilldefendfortrea6038]

Leave Bova alone! 😭😅

[@BlueBloodPenn]

I do think they made a mistake in trying to go big massive event style Avengers film next. They should have went smaller more character driven, adapt the Masters of Evil attack the mansion story, make it personal and give the new Avengers line up a chance. But instead it’s Kang, time travel, Secret Wars and multiverse stuff. All things people only care about when they care about the characters in those stories.