Yeah, thats right: not only do I expect you to enjoy a scene which is about the villains you don’t know very well instead of the heroes you’ve come to care about, when I always skim disinterestedly over them when I’m reading a comic or a book, but I expect you to enjoy it when they are discussing a third character, this “Rook” person, whom you have never met or heard of before! Unless…

NB: The reference to the picture of “the old guy” threw me at first–another wacky new concept?–but it’s actually a callback. Recall #5 Chilling.

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