Welcome to Snark Industries, the Marvel podcast with one simple, deeply unreasonable goal: to experience the entire Marvel Universe in the order the stories actually take place and catalog every last bit of it. Jon and Remy introduce themselves, break down what the show is, where it came from, and why two lifelong Marvel fans decided this was a perfectly reasonable thing to do with their time. Consider this your invitation to come along for the ride.

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Snark Industries kicks things off with a trip all the way back to 1260 BCE, breaking down Eyes of Wakanda's premiere episode and the redemption arc of Noni, a brand new character with zero comic book history to lean on. The full plot gets walked through, from the multicultural makeup of the Lion's Pride to the recurring Wakandan theme of keeping vibranium well away from a world that would absolutely misuse it. The one concrete MCU tie-in, a vibranium pickaxe that won't resurface for roughly 3,000 years (unless you want to get picky about EoW Ep4... THEN, it's a bit shorter), gets its moment, alongside the comic origins of the Dora Milaje and War Dogs. Our personal thoughts round things out, including genuine appreciation for a standalone story that still manages to say something real about the world today, even when set three millennia ago.

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In the year 1260 B.C., the sanctity of the hidden African nation of Wakanda is fundamentally challenged when Nkati, a high-ranking Captain of the Royal Guard and a secret operative of the Hatut Zeraze, defects to the outside world. Having stolen a cache of advanced vibranium technology and recruited a loyal contingent of warriors, Nkati rebrands himself as "The Lion" and establishes a pirate empire in the Mediterranean, using his superior weaponry to subjugate the peoples of Minoan Crete. This sudden emergence of Wakandan technology in the Bronze Age poses an existential threat to the kingdom’s isolationist policy, prompting the leader of the Dora Milaje, Akeya, to recruit a deniable asset for a mission of extreme prejudice.

The choice falls upon Noni, a disgraced former member of the Dora Milaje from the Merchant Tribe, whose inability to conform to rigid military discipline makes her uniquely suited for a solo infiltration mission. As Noni journeys to the Aegean to confront the Lion within his deep-sea floating fortress, she encounters a terrifying vision of what Wakandan power looks like when stripped of its moral restraints. The episode serves as the foundational narrative for the War Dogs, exploring the heavy cost of maintaining a secret utopia and the thin line between benevolent leadership and tyrannical godhood in a world where technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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