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o I pulled over at the tidy café on Robertson Boulevard, it’s a really pleasant part of town if you are ever in the vicinity and wondering where to go window shopping and browsing for an hour or so. My friend was going to stop by and join me for a quick catch up we do every couple of months.  She works closer to Santa Monica and I work further down in the Wilshire district for a property management group.

Old friends from school days, we try to stay in touch and keep up.  No sooner she had strolled in with her casual smile and dark shades than I ordered our favorite beverages and started our thing we do.  This time though for lack of conversation fodder, I brought up the Zendaya collection topic, thinking we would end up talking this year’s fashion trends and what’s in your closet.

The sun was smiling on a very pleasant afternoon and a slight mild breeze kicked in which made the conversation all the more delicious.  Turns out my friend was a fan of Zendaya and we both chatted about her rise to fame.

In a blink we were total nerds testing each other’s trivia skills over the two Spider-Man movies with Z, Holland and Batalon.

“I am kind of surprised they went with No Way Home title” I chuckled, I thought she’d catch on to my jab but oh no, she went completely in the opposite direction and blew me away with her insights.

“Yeah me too, I thought Spidey was now fitted with the hottest gear from Stark Industries and Happy was shoring him up the way Alfred gets Batman up and running when he’s battered”.

“Isn’t Spider-Man now the heir apparent to the Iron Man legacy if Tony Stark bequeathed him with EDITH?” She quipped.

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I smiled and retorted “well they haven’t given us much Potter in the solo Spider-Man movies otherwise she might eclipse everyone.  Paltrow is no wallflower, she and Zendaya could end up doing a power play on the set, I think Marvel and Sony have been avoiding this scenario – to the amazement of fans who like Paltrow from the Avengers, now that Downey is gone will it be Favreau’s Happy or Paltrow’s Potter?”

“it doesn’t stop there” she shot back “really how can they set up the title No Way Home?

Are they forgetting the little spider now has a chip in his pocket from Nick Fury?”

“We’re talking Nick Fury and Maria plus remnants of SHIELD versus poor boisterous JJ Jameson threatening Spider-Man?  Hahhahhahaha” she tried muting her giggles “its Amazing Sony or would Marvel be the guilty party?”

I squeezed a couple of green lemon slices in my seltzer and started sipping it, reclining back in my comfortable chair while taking in the scene and her incredibly pretty smile “yeah I see where you are going with this”

“Unless they are planning on showing us JJ Jameson is a super powered alien like Morgan Edge on Superman & Lois” I ventured.  She gasped with an exaggerated open mouth “You’re watching that show?”

I could tell she was floored.

“Really?  Edge is the boss of the boss of the Daily Planet?” she continued in a single breath  “No

wonder the Daily Bugle is running mad like a tabloid desperate for a huge headline, The Daily Planet Has THE EDGE” she winked at me and I joined her in a fit of laughs.

Original Spider-Man Poster (2002)n with Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst

“I am really worried, now that you stake it like this, I looked at the teaser leaked on YouTube the other day and it seems as if they are going back to the to the early high school days, its Peter, MJ and Ned on a treasure hunt, at least from what I can surmise from the press photos leaked a few weeks ago”  I threw in for her reaction.  “its as if Marvel