Board Thread:Recommendations/@comment-31215960-20180118200230/@comment-24812000-20180228235032

Hey all! Ignore my last question because I have a bigger update on Spectacular's timeline! If it indeed does take place right before Secret Empire, since Aunt May mentions Parker Industries and SHIELD is active in the beginning of the series, but #300 has a few problems besides the ones I've already mentioned. a) Hawkeye is treated as a normal superhero when before Secret Empire he should be in New Mexico or wherever Occupy Avengers was and should be shunned or something. b) Falcon mentions that SHIELD is gone. And c) The Black Cat side story has to take place after Secret Empire because Kingpin is mayor.

My solution is to treat the side story as after the rest of the series' story so far, ignore Falcon's comment, and pretend somehow the superheroes are ok with Hawkeye being there. Does that work? Or because Falcon mentions SHIELD is gone, and the other thoughts I had earlier about how the series could take place after Secret Empire, should we rethink the chronology?

I'm still leaning toward before tho, and now we do know for sure that it takes place before ASM #796 because JJJ knows his identity then.