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****SPOILERS FOR AVENGERS #40 AND LIKE THE WHOLE DAMN TIME RUNS OUT STORY LINE**** Omar Holmon and William Evans just read Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers #40 on it’s release date (January 14th) and both had a similar reaction:
Since they couldn’t stop talking about the Avengers on Avengers crime in these Marvel streets, they decide to document their conversation. Will: Off the top, let us pay our respects and pour out some salt water for the ankle-winged, super v-neck King of the Atlantic. Omar: Aquaman said the funeral arrangements for Namor will be held at Joe’s Crab Shack off 4th Avenue and Smith Street. B.Y.O.B. (Bring. Your. Own. Butter) Will: So let’s back up, cuz the fam been waiting for this shit since Namor gave the greatest city on Earth the “Noah Ultimatum” in Avengers vs X-Men.
People been waiting on him to catch those bars like The Walking Dead fans we’re wishing walker outbreaks on Andrea. Omar: Namor been too comfortable in Marvel post-Fuck boy acts. He then proceeded to have Wakanda attacked AGAIN. Yo, his Atlantean / White privilege was on fleek. Meanwhile T’Challa was listening to Ghost of Christopher Wallace as his dad told him, “You best clap that boi.” Will: Bruh, we gotta give the Lord and Savior Jonathan Hickman some credit, Da Gawd told us two years ago, in issue #2 of New Avengers this shit was coming. This was his Black Dynamite “I threw that shit before I walked in the room” moment.
Omar: I’m wondering how he proposed this to Marvel. Hickman: Sooo…
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