• Most “official” lists exclude the pre-Disney-Plus TV shows, which I think is a bummer. It’s more fun when they’re included.

    A lot of the TV shows run concurrently with one another, but outside of the crucial mid-season placements of films during the first two Agents of Shield seasons, I’m just listing everything by season.

    Movies are bolded, one-shots and specials are italic, TV Series are plain

    Main Timeline:

    Eyes of Wakanda

    Captain America: The First Avenger

    Marvel Studios One Shot: Agent Carter

    Agent Carter S1

    Agent Carter S2

    Captain Marvel

    Iron Man

    Iron Man 2

    The Incredible Hulk

    Marvel Studios One Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor’s Hammer

    Thor

    Marvel Studios One Shot: The Consultant

    The Avengers

    Marvel Studios One Shot: Item 47

    Thor: The Dark World

    Iron Man 3

    Marvel Studios One Shot: All Hail the King

    Agents of Shield S1 (Episodes 1-16)

    Captain America: The Winter Soldier

    Agents of Shield S1 (Episodes 17-22)

    Guardians of the Galaxy

    I Am Groot S1

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

    I Am Groot S2

    Daredevil S1

    Jessica Jones S1

    Agents of Shield S2 (Episodes 1-19)

    Avengers: Age of Ultron

    Agents of Shield S2 (Episodes 20-22)

    Ant-Man

    Daredevil S2

    Luke Cage S1

    Iron Fist S1

    The Defenders

    Captain America: Civil War

    Agents of Shield S3

    Black Widow

    Black Panther

    Inhumans

    (Optional non-MCU interlude: Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man)

    Spider-Man: Homecoming

    The Punisher S1

    Doctor Strange

    Cloak & Dagger S1

    Agents of Shield S4

    Jessica Jones S2

    Luke Cage S2

    Iron Fist S2

    Runaways S1

    Daredevil S3

    Runaways S2

    Cloak & Dagger S2

    Thor: Ragnarok

    Agents of Shield S5

    The Punisher S2

    Jessica Jones S3

    Runaways S3

    Ant-Man and the Wasp

    Avengers: Infinity War

    Agents of Shield S6

    Agents of Shield S7

    Helstrom

    Avengers: Endgame

    (Optional non-MCU interlude: X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past)

    Loki S1

    What If…? S1

    WandaVision

    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

    (Optional non-MCU interlude: Spider-Man 2, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Venom)

    Spider-Man: Far From Home

    The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

    Eternals

    (Optional non-MCU interlude: Spider-Man 3, Venom: Let There Be Carnage)

    Spider-Man: No Way Home

    (Optional non-MCU interlude: X-Men, X2: X-Men United)

    Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

    Hawkeye

    Moon Knight

    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    Echo

    She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

    Ms. Marvel

    Thor: Love and Thunder

    Ironheart

    Werewolf By Night

    The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special

    Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

    Secret Invasion

    (Optional non-MCU interlude: X-Men: The Last Stand, Deadpool)

    The Marvels

    Loki S2

    (Recommended non-MCU interlude for context: Logan, Deadpool 2)

    Deadpool & Wolverine

    Agatha All Along

    Daredevil: Born Again S1

    Captain America: Brave New World

    The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Alternate timeline, but syncs up around here)

    Thunderbolts

    Wonder Man

    Daredevil: Born Again S2

    The Punisher: One Last Kill

    Spider-Man: Brand New Day


    Multiversal MCU Projects:

    (Watch any time after Loki Season 2)

    Marvel Zombies

    What If…? S2

    What If…? S3

    Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man


    Non-MCU Projects with loose connections:

    (Optionally watch Any Time After Spider-Man: No Way Home)

    Morbius

    Venom: The Last Dance

    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

    Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

    X-Men ’97

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    Consider following me on https://www.twitch.tv/luigihann – I’ve got a setup now to stream, including my new animated avatar, so I’ll probably do so periodically. Will mostly be Super Robot Wars Y and its DLC for the time being.

    The title screen of Super Robot Wars Y, with my little avatar (a circle-headed, puffy-haired character with large sunglasses) overlaid in the bottom right.
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  • Couple of fun bits of photoshopping here.

    For Gundam Wing, a fairly typical front cover (though with the title placement arranged to match Zeta and ZZ), but for the back cover I re-composited an image based on a trading card I have. Couldn’t spot an image precisely like this in the show or any official art I could find, so I ended up photographing the card itself and cleaning it up.

    For Zeta Gundam, one of my favorite bits of photoshop I’ve done: Swapping out Kamille’s helmet for a Haro. Look how round it is! Then I lined it up so the Haro’s face would be what you see on that case’s spine when it’s on the shelf. Pretty cute.

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  • Had a little fun with this one. I like putting together covers where a continuous image spanning across the front and back, with the spine becoming some sort of split. I made this one represent the legendary moment where the Ideon slices a planet in half.

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  • Not too much creativity here on my part, though I did enjoy aligning Rock Band’s iconic instrument symbols with Guitar Hero’s iconic five-color fret buttons.

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  • Had an idea for a “reversible” Blu-Ray case where the spine reads “GoLion” or “Voltron” based on which way it’s placed on the shelf, to represent both the Japanese original and the Americanized version. Was a little surprised that I couldn’t find an existing ambigram for this pair of words, so I took a stab at it myself.

    I’m pretty happy how it came out. The sword becoming the T in Voltron but just decorative in GoLion feels like a bit of a cheat but I think it works.

    Two shots of a blu-ray case, highlighting an ambigram logo that reads "Voltron" or "GoLion"
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  • I did one more custom cover – it amused me to do this one, rebranding the “5 Centimeters Per Second” Blu-ray to primarily represent the short film included on it as a bonus. Happy to have “Voices of a Distant Star” on my shelf of mecha anime.

    Now that I’ve got everything organized on the shelf, it’s nice that you can’t really tell which ones are the customs.

    The current layout I’ve settled on puts all the Mecha anime in the upper shelves, sorted by date of franchise debut. Lower shelves have the remaining non-mecha anime sorted alphabetically by title. Pretty happy how it’s come together. Need to fight the urge to immediately buy more anime to fill the remaining space.

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  • I’ve been rearranging my Blu-ray shelves lately, with an eye towards displaying my mecha anime collection at the forefront. In the past when I had less space available I discarded a number of cases in favor of compiling the discs in a binder. In addition, a few of the movie collections or longer TV series were split across multiple cases, and some of the more eccentric bits of packaging don’t fit nicely on the shelves. Hence, printing out my own cases. I thought I might need to put more effort into getting higher quality prints, but the self-serve color prints at Staples look nearly as good as the real thing, especially behind the clear plastic.

    If I were capable of cutting in a straight line, and if I didn’t think it’d be neat to get fully clear cases instead of blue ones for my multi-disc sets, it’d be tough to tell the real ones from mine:

    Some of the front images are taken directly from official releases, and the spines I tried to make as realistic as possible for shelf consistency, but I’m all over the place on the back artwork. The Cowboy Bebop case is designed to be as close as possible to the record-shaped collection that Funimation put out:

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  • I still find myself thinking about this very compelling argument from Adam Conover:

    I think we’ve all felt the flattening of time, especially since 2010. I’m not the only person who still thinks of the 70’s as “about thirty years ago” and the 90’s as “about ten years ago,” and this is largely because that’s what the math was the last time we used decades as a meaningful rubric.

    I distinctly remember that around 2012 I started joking about how “I can’t believe 2008 was fifteen years ago,” because time had already started feeling broken. Obviously around 2023 the joke kind of played itself out, and I remember that moment as well. Those memories don’t even feel far apart to me. Part of that is just individual aging — every year is a smaller percentage of our lifetime than the year before it — and the technology boom that took place through the 2000s has made a big lasting change in how we communicate and consume pop culture. But I think Conover is spot on that the fact we never settled on a good name for the 00’s or the 10’s really did change our perception.

    I also buy his conclusion that the way that using named ‘generations’ has swooped in to replace decades is harmful. It’s not that today’s teenagers and today’s thirty-something don’t have meaningfully distinct collective experiences worth discussing. But if our only way of describing the difference between 2000’s-era internet culture and today’s Tik Tok trends becomes “millennials” vs “gen alpha” or whatever, we lose sight of the fact that every one of us is a different person than we were ten years ago, and that everyone living in the world today is living through this era together.

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