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If you have ever read a Silver Age Jack Kirby Marvel comic, you will know that Johnny Storm and Steve Rogers have identical faces. Fifty years later, the guy who recently played Johnny Storm also plays Steve Rogers in the new Marvel movies. In the modern world, this qualifies as homage. As does Avengers Assemble, which demonstrates that brands created to hermetic perfection at their genesis should never be messed around with.

Doc of the week Last Call at the Oasis is the backstory to Quantum of Solace and any number of sci-fi flicks over the coming decade: There isn't enough water to serve the needs of civilization.

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