"He's pure power and doesn't even know it. He's the best of us."-Matt Murdock
"I need a reason to take the mask off."-Peter Parker
"My heart half-breaks at how easy it is to lie to him. It breaks all the way when he believes me without question." Felicia Hardy
I didn’t say it was filler, but that it felt like filler. Yes, I do know what filler is. I know this story began in the first issue from the 2019 series, but felt like it wasn’t ready to come to its conclusion yet. I just felt there was more to say, and felt this story was published to make time for the Heist storyline Jed’s writing this summer.
Funny thing is that Dragon Ball gets often cited as an example of that in anime, but Toriyama-sama's view is that it's all canon... whether it fits into a single timeline or not. In fact DBZ has a massive time travel paradox that seems to involve at least THREE timelines... in a single story(the Cell games). Yeah, there's the present timeline, a bad future that Trunks comes from, and a WORSE future that Cell comes from. For extra bizarreness it has a really weird paradox created by having the same time machine from two different timelines in the same room. At which point Trunks comes to the conclusion that his alternate future self died, 'cause it's definitely HIS time machine.
Anyways the events of the Lord slug movie aren't from the same timeline as the main series... but... they still happened. Which would seem to mean that Slug exists or existed in the main timeline... and so on for the other movies. Dragon Ball Super actually has a massive number of subtle nods to the DBZ movies. Tree of Might: one of the guys from Universe 9 uses something very similar to the fruit. Heck at one point Freiza makes an oblique reference to what might be Cooler. And of course Broly... lots of Broly.
There's another definition of filler in fiction though and that.. is a very subjective one, but sometimes true. IE padding for length. Which can be a thing in comics. Some old comics had a very non-subtle way of doing it. Take one page worth of story and do a 2-page drawing of it. It looks cool, but it's not really needed to tell the story. Or stick in a bonus page of exposition... etc...
Seven days without a post? INCONCEIVABLE!!
well she did show up in spider-shadow 3 fighting with mj. that was nice wonder if they had similar conversations in the past
"He's pure power and doesn't even know it. He's the best of us."-Matt Murdock
"I need a reason to take the mask off."-Peter Parker
"My heart half-breaks at how easy it is to lie to him. It breaks all the way when he believes me without question." Felicia Hardy
I'd like to see McKay write them together if only because of all the snide remarks Felicia has made about how much she resents redheads .
"He's pure power and doesn't even know it. He's the best of us."-Matt Murdock
"I need a reason to take the mask off."-Peter Parker
"My heart half-breaks at how easy it is to lie to him. It breaks all the way when he believes me without question." Felicia Hardy